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The Violin and its Music, 1881
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1none. The airs sung by the different singers were sustained by the following instruments:—
3PERSONAGGI:
4La Musica Prologo
5Orfeo
6Eurydice
7Choro di Ninfe e Pastori
8Speranza
9Caronte
10Chori di Spiriti infernali
11Proserpina
12Plutone
13Apollo
15STROMENTI:
16Duoi Granicembani
17Duoi Contrabassi de Viola
18Dieci Viole da brazzo
19Un Arpa doppia
20Duoi Violini piccoli alla Francese
21Duoi Chitarroni
22Duoi Organi di legno
23Tre Bassi da Gamba
24Quattro Tromboni
25Un Regale
27The overture consists of eight bars for a trumpet and other instruments. In these eight bars—but they are long ones—are two movements. After the close of this introductory music, the cloth or curtain is drawn aside, and the opera begins. La Musica Prologo, personage number one, who is none other than the Genius of Music, stands forth and makes five speeches in recitative, during the deliverance of which he is accompanied by two primitive harpsichords. These speeches, like the movements of the overture, are remarkable for their brevity. In them is comprised the arguments and sundry exhortations to order, not only addressed to the audience, but to the birds of the air. Then follows a shepherd's speech in recitative, succeeded by a chorus of five parts, sung to the sound of all the instruments. There are Ritornellos, Trios, and Duets, the whole concluding with an instrumental composition in five
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