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19958	Henderson, W. J. (William James)	Some Forerunners of Italian Opera			.txt	text/plain	35517	1916	67	study of the lyric drama in Italy prior to the birth of opera, and to drama, the "Orfeo" of Poliziano, unquestionably a lyric work, is the The history of music at the court of Mantua begins at least as early as production of the first Italian secular and lyric drama at that court. system and hence it never appears in the art music of their time. note" and who sang the polyphonic art music of the time. solo parts of Poliziano's lyric drama consisted of music of the better already noted, that this was the type of musical plays performed in way into Italian music, even that composed by the Netherland masters who madrigal was acquiring general popularity as a form of dramatic music, madrigal drama was utilizing in a novel manner the musical form from Music, in sixteenth century lyric dramas, 164	./cache/19958.txt	./txt/19958.txt