... music form include: Luigi Rossi, Antonio Cesti, Giacomo Carissimi and Barbara Strozzi. Another important development of this time period is that of the Oratorio, a new genre of religious music that combined narrative, dialogue, and commentary (Norton 336). Oratorias had some likeness to the opera as it used recitatives, arias, duets, instrumental preludes and ritornello, but they differed greatly in their subject ... nine collections; he transformed the genre by exploring the texts and experimenting with matching emotional highs and lows in the music with those in the text, a procedure ...

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