Volume 9 (2003) No. 1
John Walter Hill
Beyond Isomorphism toward a Better Theory of Recitative
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Intensity, Pitch Tracings, Harmonicity, and Durations in a Speech by Orfeo Compared
with Peri’s and Caccini’s Musical Settings
| Orfeo: | O mio fedel, ne pur picciola stilla | De l’infinito mare |
| O, my friend, not even a small drop | of that infinite sea | |
| A gli occhi tuoi traspare | Che di dolcezza Amor nel cor distilla. | |
| to your eyes is disclosed | which love distills from sweetness in my heart. |