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Arising from the 1580s, ballet de cour combined song, dance and instrumental music to create a symbolic type of performance. These performances contained deeper meanings through the means of a story or scene that was acted out. With the help of, Italian immigrant, Jean-Baptiste Lully, sung drama became the established new genre of part opera, part ballet...
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With the help of, Italian immigrant, Jean-Baptiste Lully, sung drama became the established new genre of part opera, part ballet. Later Lully, along with a few key people, created the tragedie en musique. This operatic genre consisted five acts of entirely sung drama, each divided into several different scenes, and an overture that moved from slow dotted rhythms to a fast imitative portion...
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Italian & French Opera Opera, a drama consisting primarily by singing, was slow to develop in its beginnings, but once it had established itself in Italy, opera slowly gained interest in France...	2 / 512
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Phantom Of The Opera English November 17, 1999 Phantom of the Opera In the novel, Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, we are introduced to a character known to everyone as the mysterious Opera Ghost...	2 / 531