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* But the great development of music, and es- pecially of extreme virtuosity among singers, had destroyed the balance between music and poetry in the opera. The drama had be- come of little importance save as affording opportunities for musical display, and the singer ruled both poet and composer. In the * However, the very best of the operas which the earlier composers turned out by the dozen, or even by the hundred, was a very slight affair compared to anything that we should consider worthy ...of the name. A few airs, the elaboration and embellishment of which were entrusted to the singers, con- nected by recitatives with the simplest of accompaniments, a figured bass to be filled out with chords by the harpsichord player, and parts for strings and a few wind instruments were all that was required of the composer. The Opera 97 earliest Italian operas the characters were divided between men and women ; but in the time of Cavalli the artificial male sopranists began to usurp the roles of the latter, and after the pope forbade the appearance of women upon the Roman stage the soprano and contralto parts were sung almost entire- ly by these artificial voices.
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