Excerpt from A Critical History of Opera: Giving an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Different Schools, With a Description of the Master Works in Each
Lasso and Palestrina, with all its expressive ness, was hardly dramatic in spirit. Some composers of the Italian polyphonic school made attempts to employ this style for ope ratio purposes, but the earliest opera now existing resulted from an independent effort to revive the just designs of Greece.
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