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praise and admiration for someone that is more than they really deserve 开始学习
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But despite all this adulation for Handel’s music, the operas remained untouched
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complicated and difficult to understand 开始学习
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The convoluted plots were thought to make them unperformable.
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to remove the testicles of a male animal or a man 开始学习
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they were written for the star castrati of Handel’s day
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finally, after much waiting 开始学习
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at long last some of them were revived in the 1920s
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a male singer whose testicles were removed before puberty, allowing the retention of a soprano or alto voice. (in 17th- and 18th-century opera) 开始学习
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pl castrati the rise of the countertenor, the modern equivalent of the castrato without the unacceptable job requirements
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to write or perform a piece of music in a musical key that is different from the one that it was first written in 开始学习
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they were transposed an octave down for a tenor or a baritone
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a complete change from a bad situation to a good one 开始学习
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Happily, the past few decades have brought a complete turnaround in the appreciation of the operas
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many of operas have entered the mainstream repertoire.
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____ furniture or clothes are those in the style of a particular time in history 开始学习
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more research into period performance
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a man who is trained to sing with a very high voice 开始学习
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the rise of the countertenor, the modern equivalent of the castrato without the unacceptable job requirement
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something that is very special or beautiful 开始学习
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the growth of the recording industry, always on the lookout for new gems.
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impressive beauty, power, or size Pol. wspaniałość, majestatyczność, wzniosłość 开始学习
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“that dignity and grandeur of sentiment which music is capable of conveying”.
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done in a sensible and careful way 开始学习
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Handel’s work will “continue to engage the admiration of judicious hearers as long as the love of harmony shall exist.”
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