Minuccio, 119, 120 Monody, movement toward, 149 Caccini's, 222, 225 Music, in sixteenth century lyric dramas, 164 [Transcriber's Note: The letter "N" is absent from the Index. Possible entries include: Namur, Naples, Narcissus, Naumann, Nero Neri, Netherlands, Noirville, Novellara, Nuremberg.] Oboe, 145 Opera buffa, germs of, 188 Orchestra, in "Sacre Rappresentazioni," 30, 31 at Mantua, 44 in first secular drama, 89, 136 et seq. Striggio's, 138, 185, 186 in other early lyric plays, 161, 162, 174, 175, 177, 199 "Orfeo," performed at Mantua, 52, 55, 68 Italian estimates of, 55, 56 importance of its production, 57, 66 its lyric character, 66, 77, 79 description of poem, 76 et seq. how written, 72 Sismondi's comments on, 73 Symonds on, 74 editions compared, 75, 79, 80 how performed, 85 et seq. examination of its music, 98 et seq. choruses, 101, 116 solo parts, 101, 117 et seq. solo parts, frottola as basis of, 124 instrumental parts, 101, 129, 136 et seq., 144 Orpheus, embodiment of Arcadian ideal, 63, 65