Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . THE SACRED WOOD, DEAR TO THE ARTS AND TO THE MUSES. MUSEUM OF LYONS Painted by Puvis de Chavannes THE OPERA IN THE EVOLUTION OF MUSIC THE opening of the seventeenth centurysaw a revolution in music such as hasnever since been paralleled. With Pales-trina and his school, music, as it then wasknown, reached a climax of perfectionbeyond which progress was scarcely con-ceivable. But the genius of the age, theage of Renaissance, still tended toward ex-pansion and discovery. The era of theopera came in with a strange behind them, as it
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . THE SACRED WOOD, DEAR TO THE ARTS AND TO THE MUSES. MUSEUM OF LYONS Painted by Puvis de Chavannes THE OPERA IN THE EVOLUTION OF MUSIC THE opening of the seventeenth centurysaw a revolution in music such as hasnever since been paralleled. With Pales-trina and his school, music, as it then wasknown, reached a climax of perfectionbeyond which progress was scarcely con-ceivable. But the genius of the age, theage of Renaissance, still tended toward ex-pansion and discovery. The era of theopera came in with a strange behind them, as it were, the edificewhich church and secular polyphony hadrequired centuries to build, the new gener-ation of music dramatists set forth upon anunknown course. That they in time arrivedat a desired port was due largely to thegenius of the Italian race for adapting itselfto the various conditions as they arose. In spite of the new departure whichmusic took in the early years of the seven-teenth century, the old school lived on underthe wing of
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