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is too much concerned with naturalistic imitation than with expression, and criticises the habit, in Italian operas, of

that egregious absurdity of repeating, and finishing many songs with the first part; when it often happens, after the passions of anger and revenge have been sufficiently expressed, that reconcilement and love are the subjects of the second, and, therefore, should conclude the performance.
Typically, until the late eighteenth century, music criticism centred on

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