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and vulgar, but the accompaniments are admirable, and well performed. The violin and calascione parts were inces- santly at work during the song, as well as the ritornels. The modulation sur- prised me very much: from the key of A natural, to that of C and F, was not dif- ficult or new; but from that of A, with a sharp third, to E flat, was astonishing; and the more so, as the return to the original key was always so insensibly ma- naged, as neither to shock the ear, nor to be easily discovered by what road or re- lations it was brought about.
Thursday 18. I was very happy to find, upon my arrival at Naples, that though many persons to whom I had letters, were in the country, yet Signor Jomelli and Signor Piccini were in town. Jo- melli was preparing a serious opera for the great theatre of San Carlo, and Pic- cini had just brought the burletta on the stage which I have mentioned before.
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