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Lament: as aria and recitative mixed, 372 -77;

of Arianna, 362 -64, 383 ;

association with performers, 384 ;

Cavalli as master of, 201 , 324 n;

as a convention, 323 -24, ch. 12 passim;

and the descending tetrachord, 324 , 361 , 369 -72;

in literature, 361 ;

of the Nymph, 370 , 377 , 383 ;

as recitative, 364 -67, 372 , 375 ;

sectional structure of, 364 , 375 ;

strophic, 367 , 369 .

See also Cavalli; Claudio Monteverdi; Ostinato

Landi, Stefano, 387 n

Lando, Girolamo, 89 n.

See also Teatro Novissimo

Lanterna di Diogene, La , 150 n

Lappoll, Gironimo, 89 n, 90 n, 102 -3, 116 , 254 n.

See also La finta pazza ; Teatro Novissimo

Lassi (castrato), 227

Laurenzi, Filiberto, 219 , 230 , 233 , 234 .

See also La finta savia ; Renzi

Leardini, Alessandro, 217 n, 219 n.

See also Argiope; La finta savia

Legrenzi, Giovanni, 152 n, 290 n, 331 , 332 n, 333 n, 360 , 573-74, 621 -24 .

See also Achille in Sciro; Totila

Letter-writing as a convention, 7 , 324 .

See also Conventions

Librettists: as amateurs, 36 -37, 86 , 106 , 163 -69, 209 ;

financial rewards of, 81 , 87 -88, 188 n, 281 ;

as historians, 64 -65, 94 -97, 100 -101, 104 -5, 155 -56;

as impresarios, 203 -4;

as patriots, 90 , ch. 5 passim;

as professionals, 64 -65, 161 -63, 169 -70, 203 , 209 -10, 220 ;

relationship with composers, 198 -210;

as theorists, ch. 2 passim

Librettos: borrowing or plagiarism in, 65 , 111 , 157 -58, 160 , 392 -94;

chronologies of, 26 -27;

historical, 60 -61, 156 , 173 , 176 -78, 189 ;

as historical documents, 72 , 85 , 155 ;

as literature, 34 , 85 ;

mythological, 39 , 47 n, 59 -60, 140 -41, 247 , 249 , 388 ;

plots, 8 , 49 , 60 , 322 ;

prefaces, 27 , 32 -33;

purpose of, 20 -21, 25 , 66 -67, 86 -88, 150 , 168 ;

revisions in, 156 -58, 189 -90, 205 -9;

Roman, 133 , 136 -40;

and scores, compared, 210 -11;

subject matter, 59 -64, 156 , 173 , 176 ;

Trojan, 125 -26, 132 -33;

Turkish, 143 -46;

verisimilitude in, 249 , 250 .

See also Verse structure

Lieto fine, tragedia di , 41 , 46 , 57 .

See also Aristotle; Le nozze d'Enea

Lismaco , 198 n, 207 .

See also Ivanovich; Pagliardi

Lope de Vega, 50 n-51n, 52 n

Loredano (Loredan), Giovanni Francesco, 37 , 38 n, 65 n, 163 , 164 n.

See also Accademia degli Incogniti

Loredano, Leonardo, 227

Lucini, Pietro, 215 n

Lucio, Francesco, 183 , 295 n, 402 n, 403 n;

musical style, 307 , 309 , 313 -14, 316 -17, 331 , 334 , 520-21, 532 -34, 536 -38.

See also Marco Faustini; Medoro; Orontea; Pericle effeminato

Lucretia "Dolfin," 214 n, 227 , 236 -37

Lullabye, 274 , 338 -42.

See also Conventions

Lully, Jean Baptiste, 10