 Although this compositional method did not attain popularity at first, it attracted some of the most famous composers of the time.Its basis in a desire to re-create the artistic ethos of Ancient Greece, especially in respect to text declamation, had a strong similarity to contemporary movements in Italy, such as the work of the Florentine Camerata which engendered the first operas, and brought about the beginning of the Baroque era in music.Pieces written as "musique mesurée" were settings of the poetical form known as "vers mesurés".