Chapter 18 No.18

The Birth of Opera

Festival plays and intermezzi-Dreary character of music in plays-Influence of Greek learning-Attempt to resuscitate the dramatic declamation of the Greeks-Galilei and his "Ugolino"-Caccini's Nuove Musiche-Peri's setting of "Daphne"-Production of Rinuccini and Peri's "Eurydice"-The character of the new music.

THE modern oper