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bel canto
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beautiful singing.
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prima donna
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lyric soprano, leading female singer in an opera.
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diva
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celebrated female opera singer; a prima donna
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La Scala
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principal opera house of the city of Milan, Italy, which opened in 1778.
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Risorgimento
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the movement for a united Italy free of foreign domination.
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recitativo accompagnato
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recitative accompanied by the entire orchestra.
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scena
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scenic plan made up of diverse movements.
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cabaletta
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fast-concluding aria in which the increased speed of the music allows one or more soloists to race off stage at the end of a scene or act.
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Singspiel
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singing play; musical comedy or light musical drama that has many elements common with our present-day Broadway musical: topical humor, tuneful solo songs, energetic choral numbers, and spoken dialogue.
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Ring Cycle
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Wagner's four part opera written about German mythology.
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Bayreuth Festival
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an opera house in the town of Bayreuth, Germany constructed exclusively for the music dramas of Richard Wagner.
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music drama
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term used for the mature operas of Wagner
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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total art work; consisted of all the arts.
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leit-motif
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a brief, distinctive unit of music designed to represent a character, object, or idea, which returns repeatedly in order to facilitate the progress of the drama.
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realistic opera
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opera that treats issues of everyday life in a realistic way.
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flamenco
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songs of southern spain infused with gypsy elements.
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Habanera
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a dance-song accompanied by a sensual dance.
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verismo opera
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italian realistic opera of the late 19th century
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musical nationalism
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a movement of music in the 19th century in which composers sought to emphasize indigenous qualities in their music by incorporating folksongs, native scales, dance rhythms, and local instrumental sounds.
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Russian Five
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Borodin, Cui, Balkirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Musorgsky
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pentatonic scale
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scale that uses only five notes instead of the Usual western scale of seven.
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Slavs
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ethnic group found throughout much of Eastern Europe; settled in Slovakia.
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furiant
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a fast folk dance in which duple and triple meter alternate.
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absolute music
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music without narrative intent.
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staccato
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dots above the notes that instruct the players to hold each pitch for only the shortest possible time.
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orchestral song
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art song in which the full orchestra replaced the piano as the medium of accompaniment.
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