Example 1. George Frideric Handel, Teseo (1713), Act II, scene 1 (aria, bars 1-4). Transcribed by the editor from Handel 1874, 30. -- Example 2a. Handel, Teseo (1713), Act V, scene 1 (recitative). After Handel 1874, 89. -- Example 2b. Handel, Teseo (1713), Act V, scene 1 (aria, bars 20-31). After Handel 1874, 90. -- Example 3. Handel, Arianna in Creta (1734), Act II, scene 3 (aria, bars 13-31). After Handel 1881, 48-9. -- Example 4. Jean-Baptiste Lully, Psyché (1678), Act I, scene 2. Reproduced from Lully 1720, 34-5. -- Example 5. Lully, Bellérophon (1679), Act III, scene 4. Reproduced from Lully 1697, 95-6. ["May your fears cease. One of the sons of Neptune will appease Heaven's wrath for you. In recompense, the Princess must take Him as Husband."] -- Example 6. Pascale Collasse, Thétis et Pélée (1689), Act III, scene 8. Reproduced from Collasse 1716, 119-20. ["Listen, God of the Waves, to what Destiny permits as a response. The Spouse of the beautiful Thetis must one day be less grand, less powerful t -- Example 7. Collasse, Énée et Lavinie (1690), Act II, scene 3. Reproduced from Collasse 1690, 65. ["Cupids will soon restore amongst you the Peace that they had formerly banished. Heaven will second Lavinia in her choice of a Spouse."] -- Example 8. Collasse, Énée et Lavinie (1690), Act II, scene 5. Reproduced from Collasse 1690, 86-7. -- Example 9. Lully, Amadis (1684), Act III, scene 3. Reproduced from Lully 1684, 145-6. ["Ah! you betray me, miserable woman! Ah! you will betray your oaths. I return from whence I came -- the daylight harms me."] -- Example 13. Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo (1607), Act III (Orfeo "Sol tu nobile Dio," bars 1-6). Edited from Monteverdi 1615, 65. ["You alone, noble God, can give me aid. Do not fear, gods, that on a golden lyre…"].

Example 14. Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, La Rosinda (1685), part one (Eremito "Un'onda che fugge," B section). Source: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Mus.Hs.18103, fols. 36v-37r. ["Mortal being, it is you I am addressing. Time will dissolve tho -- Example 15. Pollarolo, Jefte (1692), Act I, scene 1 (recitative). Emended from Termini 1970, 454-5. ["Lord, if you hand over the fate of Ammon and the well-being of your people..."] -- Example 16. Pollarolo, Il Faramondo (1698), Act I, scene 7 (recitative, bars 1-6). After Pollarolo 1987, 43. ["Hear, from the Elysian fields where you are strolling, ghost, still bloody and unrevenged, what I on this Altar, to this God I swear, Father …"] -- Example 17a. Carlo Pallavicino Enea in Italia (Venice, 1675), overture (bars 13-4 and 23-4). Source: Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Cod. It. IV 412 (= 9936), fols. 1r-1v. -- Example 17b. Pallavicino Enea in Italia, Act I, scene 1 (aria, bars 1-2 and 25-7). Same source, fols 2r-2v. -- Example 18. Domenico Sarro, Didone abbandonata (Naples, 1724), Act I, scene 1 (recitative, bars 29-53). After the autograph in Naples, Conservatorio 'San Pietro a Majella,' Rari 1.6.6, fols. 15-8. [Aeneas. "O son! (he cries, I hear his well-known voice) u -- Example 19. Daniel Purcell, "Morpheus thou gentle god of soft repose" (1700) from A collection of the choicest songs & dialogues composd by the most eminent masters of the age (c. 1720). Oxford, Bodleian Library, Harding Mus. E 118 (111). -- Illustration 4. Frontispiece (contropiatto) of Bortolo Tardivelo's Ifigenia (Padua, 1705). Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Racc.dramm.2434.