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When Dr. Johnson characterized the opera as an "irrational entertainment," he unknowingly tapped a vein of musical thought that ran through the entire history of the art-form to that date, and continued beyond.
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completest concert, perfect musical form, pure musical parameters, purely musical parameters, extended picardy, pure musical form, fan tulle, scalewise passages, emotive arousal, uniformity amidst variety, stile rappresentativo, emotive life, opera seria, secco recitative, capo aria, irrational entertainment, esprits animaux, dramatic ensemble, pure instrumental music, leading emotion, instrumental ritornello, sung drama, capo form, additive principle, musical expressiveness
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Don Giovanni, Council of Trent, Giulio Cesare, King Lear, Peri's Euridice, Fraser Spiral, Harvard Dictionary, Monteverdi's Orfeo, Winton Dean, Compendium of Music, Goldberg Variations, The Magic Mountain, Agnus Dei, Alban Berg, Büchner's Woyzeck, Die Entführung, Girolamo Mei, Mozart's Idomeneo, South India, The Marriage of Figaro
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