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The Death of Italian Solfegeau

Did Italian solfegeau completely die or in the 19th century we see echoes of it? Rossini complained or saying lamenting that Oh, I wish we had those master singers again. Was there still pockets here and there? We don't know But certainly for composers like Verde de Impucini It's a distant memory probably Okay, okay. Now did people think of the baseline in terms of syllables? If you were to look in archives in fairly obscure Italian towns in the church archives You'd probably find people teaching the same things until the 1850s and beyond.

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