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   Dafne
   `Dafne` is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. Composed by Jacopo Peri, with a libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini. `Dafne` is scored for a much smaller ensemble than Claudio Monteverdi's slightly later operas, namely, a harpsichord, a lute, a viol, an archlute, and a triple flute. Drawing on a new development at the time, Peri established recitatives, melodic speech set to music, as a central part of opera....
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   Dafne
   (from the article `Peri, Jacopo`) In collaboration with Ottavio Rinuccini and Jacopo Corsi, Peri is best-known for composing what was probably the first opera, Dafne (1598), and also, ... The honour of being deemed the first opera usually is given to a setting by Peri of Dafne by the Renaissance pastoral poet Ottavio Rinuccini. It was ....
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   Dafne
   (from the article `opera`) Although Heinrich Schütz composed Dafne, the first known opera with a German text, and heard it played at Torgau on April 23, 1627, the active ... ...an aesthetic educator and translator have assumed much importance. He translated from Heinsius, Grotius, Seneca, and Sophocles; he partly ... [2 related ...
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   Dafne
   Dafne is a Italian girl name. The meaning of the name is `Laurel` Where is it used? The name Dafne is mainly used In Italian.How do they say it elsewhere? Daphne ( In Greek Mythology and In English) Dafne doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Dafne appeared In the top-1000 was 7 years ago, In 2001. It ranked #967 In that year.
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