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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A pleasantly told story for girls, with a happy ending." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A charming story for young folks. Hetty is a delightful creature--piquant, tender, and true--and her varying fortunes are perfectly realistic." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will be read with absorbing interest by the youngsters." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A charming bright story about real children." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This naughty child is positively delightful. Papas should not omit 'Naughty Miss Bunny' from their list of juvenile presents." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of the best story-books we have read. Girls will be charmed with the tale." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A very pretty tale, with great variety of incident and subtle character study, written precisely in the style that is surest to win the hearts of young folks...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Waif of the Sea" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A very touching and pretty tale of town and country, full of pathos and interest, embodied in a narrative which never flags, and told in a style which deserves the highest praise for its lucid and natural ease." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Warner's Chase" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A good book for boys and girls. There is nothing sentimental in it, but a tone of quiet and true religion that keeps its own place." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In Milly Warren, the heroine, who unwittingly restores the family fortunes, we have a fine ideal of real...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No story more attractive, by reason of its breezy freshness and unforced pathos, as well as for the practical lessons it conveys." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An exquisitely told story. The heroine is as fine a type of girlhood as one could wish to set before our little British damsels." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A pure, fresh story of what is the result in a young girl's life when it is governed by unselfishness and a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our Frank, which is the longest, describes the fortunes of a runaway boy in the Buckinghamshire woods--how he met with a tramp, how they travelled together, and how, after all, Frank found that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From East to West, At Home is best." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can warmly commend all three stories, and the attractive binding and pleasing illustrations combine with the contents to render the book a most alluring prize for the younger ones." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For fireside reading more wholesome and, at the same time, highly entertaining reading for young people could not be found." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peggy Pepper-Pot." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Esmé Stuart may be commended for producing a girl true to real life, who will put no nonsense into young heads." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is not a dull page in it; while it is graphically written and abounds in touches of genuine humour and innocent fun." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The most exciting of them all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A bright genial story, which boys will thoroughly enjoy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Latheby Towers," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Simply a charming book for little girls." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well worth buying for the frontispiece alone." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Corkran has earned our gratitude by translating into readable English these two charming little stories." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ranks with the writings of Erckmann-Chatrian for finish, beauty, and naturalness. The whole story is delightful." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A book of special excellence, which ought to be in the hands of all boys. It is as readable as it is instructive, and as elevating as it is readable." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It should be read with interest by every girl who loves to learn what her sex can accomplish in times of difficulty and danger." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The most delightfully-written little stories one can easily find in the literature of the season. Well constructed and brightly told." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The story is very neatly told, with some fairly dramatic incidents, and calculated altogether to please young boys." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An undercurrent of sympathy with the struggles of the poor, and an ability to describe their feelings under various circumstances, eminently characteristic of Dickens, are marked features in Mr. Gow's story." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This pretty story has a freshness and natural eloquence about it such as are seldom met with in our home-made tales. It seems to carry us back to some of the love stories of the Bible." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quality is not sacrificed to quantity, the stories one and all being of the highest, and eminently suited for the purposes of gift books for either day or Sabbath schools." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A story of English school life. It is an attempt to teach a somewhat higher code of honour than that which prevails among the general run of schoolboys, and the lesson makes a very good story." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is a family story of great pathos. It ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The whole of the set will be found admirably adapted for the use of the young." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A very praiseworthy series of Prize Books. Most of the stories are designed to enforce some important moral lesson, such as honesty, industry, kindness, help...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Any one who wishes to send a dainty packet of story-books to a household blessed with little children will find in these exactly what he wants. They are issued with the prettiest of all the coloured covers we have yet seen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can stron...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sound little books, teaching the elements of 'washing' with much clearness by means of plain directions and well-executed plates." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The rules are so clear and simple that they cannot fail to be understood even by those who have no previous knowledge of drawing. The letterpress of the book is as good as the illustrations are beautiful." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything necessary for acquiring the art of flower painting is here: the _facsimiles_ of water-color drawings are very beautiful." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Such excellent books, so carefully written and studied, cannot fail to have great advantage in the creat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As a work of art in the book line we have seldom seen its equal; and it could not fail to be a delightful present, affording a great amount of pleasurable amusement and instruction, to young people." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The book must prove of great value to students. Nothing could be prettier or more charming than the marine sketches here presented." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We commend them most heartily to all persons of taste who may be wanting to cultivate the great accomplishment of Water-color Drawing, or who want a gift-book for a lad or girl taking up the study." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Apart from its educational value in art training this is a lovely book: we have seen nothing to equal the coloured plates." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The handsomest and most instructive volume of the series yet produced." }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To those who wish to become proficient in the art of water-color painting no better instructor could be recommended than these two series." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The illuminations are admirably reproduced in colour. Mr. Loftie's practical instructions enhance the value of an excellent handbook." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flying Fish." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Annia, the sister of Marcus and her pets moved from | | after page 20 to page 16 | | | | Illustration" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Castle of Falaise moved from after page 70 to page | | 71 | | | | Illustration" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hualpi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've dropped something, Miss Percival." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Panthéon Charivarique" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Armide" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cabinet des estampes in Paris. It bears the inscription," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Orlandus Lassus, musicus excellens." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Annals of Hainault and a sketch by Van Quickelberg published in 1565 in a biographical dictionary ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Penitential Psalms, which are still held in the highest esteem among lovers of pure old church music. He wrote also some of his finest Magnificats, as well as many pieces of secular music. His fame spread through Europe, and though Palestrina was his contemporary, it was Lasso w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hic ille est Lassus, lassum qui recreat orbem, Discordemque sua copulat harmonia." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Penitential Psalms," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Regina coeli," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Salve Regina," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Angelus ad pastores, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miserere, Rochlitz's" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The one (Palestrina) brings the angelic host to earth; the other raises man to eternal regions, both meeting in the realm of the ideal. Fétis, in his prize essay of 1828, says:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Too many writers in their eulogies of Lasso have called him...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fétis quotes from the introduction to Franco's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ars Cantus Mensurabilis the following words:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We propose, therefore, to set forth in this volume this same measured music. We shall not refuse to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sumer is icumen in." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At this period, representing the infancy of art, the subject, or canto fermo, was almost invariably placed in the tenor and sung in long sustained notes, while two or more supplementary voices accompanied it with an elaborate counterpoint, written like the canto fermo itself in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Missa cujusvis toni, which was plainly selected because of its science. Extracts from his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Missa Prolationum were used in theoretical treatises; and, indeed, Ockeghem's music seems generally to have been cherished wholly on account of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As a professor, Ockeghem was also very remarkable, for all the most celebrated musicians at the close of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century were his pupils. In the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Complaint" }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fortuna desperata," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kiesewetter, also generous in his views, says that these writers excel their predecessors in possessing" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sammlung vorzüglicher Gesangstücke, Vol. I., p. 22) says:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "His style was distinguished f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Almost at the beginning of the Netherland school, mechanical invention was made subservient to idea. It was no longer contrapuntal writing for counterpoint's sake. Excesses were toned down, and the desire unquestionable was that the contrapuntist's art should occupy its proper p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The origin of the methods of notation which were in favor with the Netherlandic composers is to be sought in the fact that the newly acquired art of counterpoint was regarded preëminently as a means of exercising the sagacity of the composer as well as of the performer. The auth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Musique aux pay bas," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should never finish if I undertook to cite all the authorities who show the high esteem which Josquin des Près enjoyed in his day and after his death." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hercules dux Ferrariae" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fétis says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His superiority over his rivals, his fecundity and the great number of ingenious inventions which he spread through his works placed him far beyond comparison with other composers, who could do no better than become his imit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If one examines the works of this composer, he is struck with the appearance of freedom which prevails in them in spite of the dry combinations which he was obliged to make in obedience to the taste of the time. He is credited with being the inventor of most of the scientific re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Novi sunt inventores, in quibus est Nicolaus Gombert, Jusquini piae memoriae discipulus" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Musique aux pay bas," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Verbum dulce et suave," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Horatii Flacci, poetae lyricae, odae omnes, quotquot carminum generibus differunt, ad rythmos musicos redactae." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Musique aux pays bas," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pater Noster, his motet" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vita Dulcedo and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miserere, his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bird Cantata and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Le Berger et la Bergère ; Willa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The reason of this, as Dr. Langhans with fine discernment points out," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bird Cantata is a clever and humorous composition. Jannequin's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cris de Paris is a musical imitation of the street cries of a great city, and his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Le Battaille is a picture of a battle. When we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Musique aux pay bas," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Penitential Psalms" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "were their cloister and their shrine. Out of this motley multitude there breaks upon our vision one sober, industrious musician, Jean Perotin, striving to find the secret of law and order for tones. Evidently a man of method, an orderly, peaceable, mechanical, plodding sort of p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Naila waltz. There never was a truer piece of counterpoint written in the days of Josquin than that violoncello melody that glides in beneath the principal theme of the first strings, like a new dancer come upon the ball room floor. Turn to the wonderful prelude to" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maestro della Capella della Basilica Vaticana. While employed at this post he composed a set of four and five-voiced masses which were published in 1544 and dedicated to Pope Julius III. The work marks an epoch, for it was the first important one by any Italian composer, the Chu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Composer to the Pontifical Choir. It may be mentioned here that none of the different positions which Palestrina occupied took him out of the reach of pecuniary cares, and he never received an adequate recompense for his labors; yet one may doubt whether he ever suffered absolut...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lamentations," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "all of which may be found in the early commentaries on his works. It must be borne in mind that Palestrina lived at a time when music was still largely a mathematical science, when the a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(Rome, 1828. Two volumes), spite of a degree of partisanship and consequent lack of appreciation of the work of some of the Flemish composers, will probably always remain the bucket through which the waters of the well of Palestrina are best attainable. No man ever had as good o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as a Mass. This was a very natural proceeding. We have alluded above to the custom of setting masses around a secular core, using some popular melody as _cantus firmus_, as practised by the Netherlanders. When Palestrina chose the above-named melody, he entered deliberately into...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "i. e." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have stated that the old pure school did not portray emotion in the modern style; one may not find in these" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Reproaches of Palestrina the entirely human style of a Luzzi's" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crucifixus and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Benedictus are Mixo-Lydian), and is probably the noblest example of the employment of the church modes in the pure style. Although the work is most intricate, Palestrina has here achieved that most difficult feat, the art...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kyrie devout; the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gloria animated; the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Credo majestic; the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sanctus angelic; and the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Agnus Dei prayerful...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Music exerts a great influence upon the minds of mankind, and is intended not only to cheer these, but also to guide and to control them, a statement which has not only been made by the ancients, but which is found equally true to-day. The sharper blame, therefore, do those dese...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Canzonettas for three voices," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Imperfection of Modern Music," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in other words, dramatic music, had already been discovered, as recounted at greater length in the essay upon Italy. It is sufficient for our present purpose to compare the dates. It was about 1595 that Vincenzo Gallilei intoned at Count Bardi's his epoch-making monologue upon" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Il Combatimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, an intermezzo. The story was taken from Tasso's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jerusalem Delivered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Il Rosajo fiorito ; and in 1630, for the marriage of the daughter of his patron, the senator Moncenigo, to Lorenzo Giustiniani, he wrote to a poem by Strozzi," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Proserpina Rapita." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "L'Incoronazione di Poppea," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stracciami pur il côre (the music of which is given entire in Burney's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "History of Music," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tancred" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "L'Onesta del' Amore, at the palace of the ex-queen of Sweden, Christina, in Rome. The work pleased, and the young composer seems to have been taken into the service of the queen, where he remained until her death, which took place in 1688. Nothing is known of this opera beyond t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Odoacre, with certain adaptations and additions of his own. In a prefatory note to the published edition, Scarlatti says:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The airs rewritten by the editor are distinguished by an asterisk, to the end that their faults should not prejudi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pirro e Demetri, 1697;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Il Prigionero Fortunato, 1698; and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Laodicea e Berenice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Il Caduta de Decemviri, was played in 1706; another," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Il Trionfo della Liberta," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tigrane, which was played in 1715. Another," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Griselda," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I Dolore di Maria," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Il Sacrafizio d'Abramo," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Il Martirio di S. Teodosia," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "La Concezzione della Beata Virgine," }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ave Regina Cælorum for two voices and organ, a great four-voice canon, a five-voice mass with orchestra, a great pastoral mass for two choirs, eleven voices, with orchestra and organ, and a famous motette," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tu es Petrus," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Les Gloires de l'Italie" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eurydice the aria occupies the smallest possible place. Giulio Caccini, his amateur co-worker, has an aria published in 1600 from" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nymphes des Ondes, called _Fere selvagge che per monti errato_, which is in the key of G, moderato, two pe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "La Rosaura (Edition of the German Society for Musical Research), which was probably produced between 1689 and 1692. As compared with the operas by Monteverde, the melody of this work is much more free. There is a _largo_ prelude and aria of Climene in the second scene, with a st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Il Cadute de' Decemviri, played in 1705," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All the airs have a sentiment corresponding with the words, and a taking originality. Many have a solo violin with two other violin parts. In the second act an air of touching expression is accom...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tigrane (1715) the orchestra consisted of violins, violas, 'celli, basses, two horns, two oboes, which was an unprecedented number at that time. In" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "La Caduta de Decemviri" } ]