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a0266361136 · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Why is Orfeo significant in the history of European music?

a. it is the first time instruments were used to accompany singing
b. it is Bachs only opera
c. it was the first composition distributed to a mass market by the printing press
d. it is the first true example of European opera
e. it is the first composition based upon a mythological subject

Question 2

Which Italian musician is considered the creator of opera? His career as a performer and composer was spent in the
Italian cities of Cremona, Mantua, and Venice.

a. Monteverdi
b. Vivaldi
c. Corelli
d. Palestrina
e. Handel