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Answer the following questions:

1a. Explain the main principles that lay behind the compositions associated with the Florentine Camerata around 1600 (particularly Jacop Peri and Guilio Caccini). In particular, what specific
evidence do we have which accounts for their thoughts? Which publications are particularly important? What were the distinguishing and “new” features of their music? How did the music for opera
differ from that for domestic performance?

1b. Based on the ideas above, compare and contrast these two pieces (Caccini’s Sfogava con le stelle and Fillide mia). What are the particular characteristics of their texts? Why are these
characteristics important? How do music and text relate in both pieces? Which features of are particularly “new”? Which features are “old”?