The Counts Egmont | | Marcelli, which was performed in Rome & Horn | | in the year 1565, had the effect of beheaded at | | altering the opinion of many of the Brussels (1568). | | ecclesiastics who at the Council of | | Trent, in 1562, advocated the | | banishment of all Figural music from | | the Church. | | The first Puritans | 1570 | Faber (Heinrich), born 1525 at and Presbyterians | | Brunswick, in Germany, died 1598. (1571). | | Church compositions, and a treatise on | | music. | | Massacre of St. | | Lejeune (Claude), born about 1540 Bartholomew | | in the Netherlands, died about 1600. (1572). | | Masses, Psalms, etc. | | | | Nanini (Giovanni Maria), born about First circumnavigation | | 1540 at Vallerano, in Italy, died of the | | 1607. Teacher of Counterpoint; many world, by Drake | | Motetts for eight different voices, (1577). | | and other Church compositions. | | North-America | 1580 | Morley (Thomas), born about 1540 English. | | in England, died 1604. Madrigals and | | other vocal compositions. Instruction Walter Raleigh | | book on music. (1584). | | | | OPERA.--About the year 1580, a Portugal is conquered | | number of professional musicians and by the | | amateurs associated in the house of Spaniards in | | Giovanni Bardi, Count of Vernio, at 1581, and remains | | Florence, with the object of reviving a Spanish | | in the drama the musical declamation Province until | | of the ancient Greeks. To this 1640. | | association belonged the composers | | Emilio del Cavalieri, Giacomo Peri, The Netherlands | | Giulio Caccini, and the poet Ottavio become independent | | Rinuccini. Their exertions resulted in (1581). | | the production of the first Lyric | | Opera, called 'Dafne,' the poetry of The Gregorian | | which was by Rinuccini, and which was Calendar introduced | | performed at Florence in the year into all | | 1594. Soon followed the first