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Thoroughcomposed Opera
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Music that plays throughout the ENTIRE time - no breaks
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Music Drama
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long performance, theater without isles, orchestra underneath audience, much longer than opera
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Gesammtkunstwerk
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TOTAL WORK OF ART
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Ludwig
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patron of the arts, financed Bayreuth to make music drama
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Bayreuth
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theater where the orchestra is underneath stage, no rows or isles
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Artwork of the Future
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Music dramas based on northern European mythology - Written by Richard Wagner
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Tristan and Isolde
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greatest duet ever, chain melody, comparable to romeo and Juliet, star crossed lovers
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Seigfried
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hero of Der Ring des Niebelungen
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Leitmotiv(Leading motif)
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unifying factor of the drama, the characterize individuals, abstract ideas, or objects
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Risorgimento
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The movement for freedom, secret society, indicate secret meeting, almost
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Das Rheingold: The Ring Cycle
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Where the ring way
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The Valkyries: The Ring Cycle
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people who protected it, lived high in the mountains with powers can’t be seen
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Siegfreid: The Ring Cycle
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The Hero
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Twilight of the Gods: The Ring Cycle
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End of the ring cycle
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Die Guerdmmerung
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famous theme, death of the gods from fire, gods create larger than life human and loose control (musical excerpt from the ring cycle” woman got on a horse and rode into the flames
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Vittorio Emanuele, Re D’Italia:
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first president of Italy
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Rigoletto
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power of being in love, opera in the four acts, Italian libretto - Written by Giuseppe Verde
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Recitative
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style of delivery in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech
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Giuseppi Verdi
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Italian romantic composer.
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Chopin
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taught young girls piano, hand long arms. He uses a full scale of the piano. Uses a “rain” sounds because of the long range
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Mozart from Chopin
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Mozart is contained ,fancy, structured, tiny old piano
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Beethoven
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Symphonia Eroica: translates to hero, about Napoleon, starts with two big bangs (19th century symphony music)
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Cadenza
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showing off at the end of a concerto
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