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[ Mattheson, Critica Musica, I., p. no: "Dass die tiefen Singbässe einer Harmonie viele Majestät, viele Harmonie und force geben, ist unstreitig; ob aber allemahl etwas agréable, und nicht vielmehr sehr oft was rude und entsetzliches dabei vermacht sey, will dem Zuhörer ùberlaasen.">[
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[ Hiller, Wöchentl. Nachr., I., pp. 326, 343, 353.]
FOOTNOTES CHAPTER 10
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[ Opitz's "Dafhe" (1627) follows Rinuccini's original in fidelity to the ancient style; a second adaptation, performed in 1672 and 1678, with music by Gius. Peranda and G. A. Bontempi (Fürstenau, Zur Gesch. d. Mus. in Dresden, I., pp. 234, 251, 254), is enlarged, chiefly by comic scenes of great coarseness between Jakels the piper, Käthe the peasant-girl, and her father Chremes. It was similarly treated in Hamburg. (Lindner, Die erste Deutsche Oper, p. 52).]
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[ There are two thick volumes in the collection of the King of Saxony, containing comic scenes from nineteen operas by Al. Scarlatti, Gasparini, Giovanni Buononcini, Luigi Manci, Gius. Aldovrandini, and Severo de Luca.]