What was the Renaissance?
What was the effect of this idea on music?
What was the origin of Recitative?
What was understood by _Nuove Musiche_?
Who wrote the first opera? What term was applied to this kind of
musical work?
Give a description of the early opera.
Give an account of the Florentine school and their fundamental ideas.
Since the beginning of the Opera is practically the beginning of a
century, the 17th, it should not be a difficult matter to keep this
date in mind. It therefore antedates the settlement at Jamestown, Va.,
by a few years, making the beginning of American history under English
auspices and the Opera coincide.