Jacopo Peri: Le musiche sopra 1’Euridice, opera: Excerpts

Compare and contrast the compositional styles of very early baroque vocal writing, for

Jacopo Peri: Le musiche sopra 1’Euridice, opera: Excerpts
Aria: Nel pur ardor
Dialogue in recitative: Per quel vago boschetto

And

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte etAricie, opera: Conclusion of Act IV

First of all, discuss these in purely musical terms (ie. Melody, harmony, texture, timbre, rhythm, etc.”) Then comment on the social, political and economic factors that may have been responsible or contributed to these developments.

Remember that in “compare and contrast” questions, “compare” means to tell how they are similar and “contrast” is to tell how they are different.