The Rise and Development of Opera: Embracing a Comparative View of the Art in Italy, Germany, France and England (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Fourthly, turning to England, the polyphonic style in sacred music having at the hands of that distinguished group Of composers which included Tye, Tallis, Byrd, Redford, Farrant and Orlando Gibbons, reached its highest point Of development, and the madrigal become a national institution, the school of the Restoration had arisen (distinguished by that peculiarly beautiful form, the verse-anthem), and the madrigal become succeeded by the glee - also a form special to our school, and which aided in the development of the artistic song. Then towards the end Of this, the seventeenth century, came the combined breadth, clearness and originality Of Purcell.

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