This is one of the listenings that I wrote down instead of blogging because my computer was broken for quite some time.
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I see they have period instruments: Recorder, plucked instruments, perhaps a thorobough. I cannot tell if the violins and trumpets are from the period or modern. They have sackbuts for sure.
"Let us sing in sweet accounts so that our strains may be worthy of Orpheus" seems to be a refrain of that short scene in the beginning
There is a "charming nymphs" refrain between soliloques in the beginning.
Oh, Harpsichord!
I could be wrong, but when Sylvia comes in, she seems to be singing the same music with different words. This is right before she tells Orpheus that his love was bitten by a snake and is dead.
Baroque begins with Opera!!!
Le Nuove Musica!
... and lasts through Bach's death in 1750.
(Much like Elvis and King Arthur, I don't believe that Bach is actually dead, but is simply biding his time before he sees fit to reveal his majesty once again.)
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