Lyrics......?

I don't even know what my question is. I am listening to Sondheim's Into The Woods and it's such a question to me. When you're writing lyrics for a musical or an opera, what are some of the options you have? What is Sondheim's style? I have noticed that Sondheim avoids rhymes a lot of the time. He also tends to stuff a lot of syllables into one beat. How does the meter affect the music? Since I can't understand non-English operas, I have no idea how meter changed throughout different eras. Was it always so irregular (like Sondheim) in the Baroque era (like Rameau and Lully)? Is it just English that sounds so irregular? I am very familiar with Persian poetry and it's VERY metrical. But when I listen to English musicals (even the old conventional ones), I feel like they're A LOT less metrical. Is language a big factor? It obviously is, but 'how' exactly does it affect the tone, timbre, etc?

What books do you recommend? Where do i have to start my research(NOT schoolwork, just interest

Lyrics......?regal theater

The society of Florentine Camerata were specializing on setting words and poems to music, in a 'proper way'. Actually, the very first opera, Euridice by Peri, is not a work of one person but a collective effort of this Camerata composers and poets. The first opera was a drama where the recitative was telling and driving the action forward, and the music was set to this action. However, the music in the first opera was not that affectionately set so one could really feel and emphatize with the actors/singers, even though the feelings they want to convey are intense. What was needed to make progress in opera?

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