. Some forerunners of Italian opera . ir^^ f^^^rfTjf^r ^^m^^ ^—^—\ fl tiI so - le Caccini also showed that he was not averse tothe lascivious allurements of two female voicesmoving in elementary harmonies. Here is apassage from a scene between two nymphsupon which rest many hundreds of pages inlater Italian gia non val mor - tal in - ge - gno 232 Some Forerunners of Italian Opera This was the immediate predecessor of thewell-known Saliam cantando in Monte-yerdes Orfeo/ The innovations of the Florentine reformersincluded also the invention of thorough bass,or the basso continuo, as the
. Some forerunners of Italian opera . ir^^ f^^^rfTjf^r ^^m^^ ^—^—\ fl tiI so - le Caccini also showed that he was not averse tothe lascivious allurements of two female voicesmoving in elementary harmonies. Here is apassage from a scene between two nymphsupon which rest many hundreds of pages inlater Italian gia non val mor - tal in - ge - gno 232 Some Forerunners of Italian Opera This was the immediate predecessor of thewell-known Saliam cantando in Monte-yerdes Orfeo/ The innovations of the Florentine reformersincluded also the invention of thorough bass,or the basso continuo, as the ItaHans call Grossi, called Viadana from theplace of his birth, seems to have been the firstto use the term basso continuo and on the au-thority of Praetorius and other writers waslong credited with the invention of the thingitself. But it was in 1602 that he published his Cento concerti ecclesiastic! ai,a2, a3,ea4voci, con il basso continuo per sonar nelF or-gano. The basso continuo had been in use forsome time before this. It appears in the scoreof Peris Euridice as well as in the NuoveMusiche of Caccini. It was employed inCavalieres Anima e Corpo and was doubt-less utilized in some of the cameratas earlierattempts which have not come down to us. Medium for Individual Utterance 233 Just which
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