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Well, at the minimum it's bollocks with an illustrious history. In the sixteenth century some people in Italy got the idea that the classical Greek plays must h
by leoc 13y ago
Well, at the minimum it's bollocks with an illustrious history. In the sixteenth century some people in Italy got the idea that the classical Greek plays must have been sung rather than spoken. Their attempts at reviving this probably-imaginary tradition are what gave us (European) opera. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_Camerata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_Camerata
- christudor 13y agoLarge parts of Classical Greek plays were were sung. We know this from a host of different sources (not least the plays themselves, parts of which are written in sung meters...)
- leoc 13y agoYes, but they weren't through-sung (were they?), which is what the Florentines seem to have decided they were (hence opera).