Why is Orfeo significant in the history of European music?

a. it is the first time instruments were used to accompany singing
b. it is Bach’s only opera
c. it was the first composition distributed to a mass market by the printing press
d. it is the first true example of European opera
e. it is the first composition based upon a mythological subject


ANSWER: d

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