On May 27, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Neal Gittleman wrote:
Going back to Kim's original question (sort of), regardless of when secco recits "died out", the technique was still used at least as late as Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress", though, of course, that's a special case.
I don't think it's right to say "as late as". To me that implies a continuous tradition, when in fact Stravinsky was deliberately reviving an extinct tradition.
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