... about a change in musical dynamics. Instead of using the old terraced dynamics of the Baroque era, music now rose from loud to soft and vice versa in rising crescendos and falling decrescendos. The want for more of this eventually led to the widespread use of a new keyboard instrument, the piano, which was able to perform these dynamic changes simply by varying ... opera and then the dramatist or librettist needs to write the libretto or text of the opera. All of the story and action in an opera is sung and this leaves great room for more specialised voices, these voice categories start...

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