Opera and Vocal Music in the Early Classical Period

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  1. 4. composer of La serva padrona
  2. 5. purpose served by opera buffa plots
  3. 9. German comic opera with spoken dialogue
  4. 10. city where Neapolitan comic opera originated
  5. 12. typical accompaniment for home songs
  6. 15. French strophic song genre
  7. 16. accompaniment used in simple recitative of La serva padrona
  8. 17. comic segments between acts of serious opera
  9. 18. style of rapid dialogue in Neapolitan comic opera
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  1. 1. first book printed in North America (1640)
  2. 2. how many acts in an opera buffa
  3. 3. Gluck opera from 1767
  4. 6. principal Lutheran sacred medium
  5. 7. city where Metastasio was court poet in 1729
  6. 8. medium for British printed ballads
  7. 11. favored aria form in opera seria
  8. 13. time period in which comic opera plots were centered
  9. 14. German song with simple expressive accompaniment