History of Western Art Music Chapter 14

The Florentine Camerata was ________

The earliest opera plots were based on ______

Cesti composed his most famous opera for audiences in which region?

Monody is the modern term for

The first public opera house opened in 1637 in which city?

Le nuove musiche was ______ .

The style of monody in which a solo singer sings speechlike dialogue

The author of Dialogo della musica antica et della moderna who attacked the use of vocal cp ___

The text for an opera is called a(n) _____

Arioso is best defined as _________

The musician who invented recitative was ______

In Rome, roles for high voices were sung by

Monteverdi developed stile concitato to depict _____

Which of the following statements best describes the Renaissance antecedents of opera?

which of the following is NOT true of mid 17th century Italian opera style

The count who hosted gatherings of poets&musicians at his home was ____

2 of Monteverdi's pupils and his successors as composers of Venetian opera were _____

The poet who wrote the text for some of the first operas was ______

The center for opera development after it's initial development in Florence was

Scholar whose study of ancient Greek texts led him to believe that all Greek plays were sung is