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[ Schelle thought that the vastness of the oratorium of the Chiesa Nuova was unsuited for such performances (N. Zeitschr. f. Mus., LX., p. 79); but there is decided testimony against this view.]
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[ P. delle Valle, in a letter written 1640. Doni, Opp., II.]
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[ The celebrated male soprano, Vittorio Loreto, who entered the Papal Kapelle in 1620 (Lindner zur Tonkunst, p. 43), enchanted the public with a Magdalene's song, probably by Dom. Mazocchi (Kircher, Musurg., VII., 9 t. I., p. 674), which he executed in sacello patrun congregations oratorü (Erythräus, pinac. II., 68).]
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[ According to Quadrio (Stor. di ogni poes., V., p. 425) the term oratorio was first used by Franc. Balducci (d. 1642); in Allacci's Dramaturgia (Ven., 1755) it often occurs after 1659; historians of literature, such as Muratori (d. Perfetta Poesia, III., 5) or Apostolo Zeno (Fontanini, Bibl. d. Eloq. Ital., I., p.489) use it as the customary one.]
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[ The treatises of Fink (in Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopédie, III., 4 p. 405) and Keferstein (A. M. Z., XLV.,p. 873) are very unsatisfactory,]