Previous posts for August 20th are here: Jacopo Peri (2019), (2020), Josef Strauss; Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (2021), and Jacopo Peri (2022)
Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633) wrote the earliest surviving opera.
A House Divided
For less dramatic parts he created vocal lines close to the style of spoken language set over a sustained accompaniment. For impassioned scenes he explored stronger and more rapid melodies with steadily changing harmonies. Peri's critics have observed that within the score of Euridice, he created no musically remarkable examples of either. – Wikipedia, s.v. “Euridice (Peri)”
When Jacopo Peri
Was needing to vary
The pace of his musical play,
He was led to conceive
Of some recitative
Interspersed with some sung cabaret.
The songs were a breather,
But experts say neither
Added much to the drama’s cachet.
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