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15 Cards in this Set
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Excerpt from Act I of The Coronation of Poppea/Monteverdi/Busenello/Baroque
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1. Opera
2. Nero is scheming to get his mistress Poppea crowned "Empress;" Nero is leavinf Poppea's house one morning after an overnight stay, and is trying to get him to promise to return 3. Roman History 4. 2 singers, with lute in recitative sections, orchestra during aria 5. Recesitive 6. Primo Uomo, Prima Donna |
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"Our Polly is a Sad Slut" from The Beggars Opera/Anonymous/Classic
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1. Ballad Opera
2. The Peachums are angry bc their daughter Polly who they want to be a prostitute has gotten married. 3. Folk Tunes 4. 2 singers 5. Spoken Dialogue 6. None |
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"Diggi Daggi" from Bastien and Bastienne/Mozart/Schachtner/Classic
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1. Singspiel
2. Noble woman flirts with man. He forgets about his gf, leaves her heart broken. She wants him back, Colas tells her to ignore him. Colas tells him that he will make a spell to make her notice him. 3. Original 4. 2 singers 5. Spoken Dialogue 6. None |
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"Getting Married Today" from Company/Sondheim/Sondheim/20th-21st
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1. Musical Theater
2. Bachelor visits five different friend who are married and studies them. In this instance he is visiting Amy and Paul on their wedding day. 3. Original 4. Trio, Chorus 5. Non-standard form 6. None |
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"Dammi un bacio" from Cosi fan tutte/Mozart/Da Pante/Classic
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1. Opera Buffa
2. Engaged men make a bet about fidelity to alfonso a cynic. They in turn leave and return in disguise, the only cure to their sickness is a kiss..from the other fiance. 3. Original 4. 6 singers/Sextet 5. Homophony, Non-imitative polyphony 6. None |
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"Tonight" from West Side Story/Bernstein/Sondheim/20th-21st
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1. Musical Theater
2. Maria and Tony are dating though they are in rival gangs. The Sharks and the Jets are on their way to fight each other 3. Original 4.Quintet 5. Non-Standard polyphony 6. None |
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"Alknomook"/Tammany; or The Indian Chief/Annonymous/Hatton/Classic
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1. Ballad Opera
2. Tammany loves Manana, though so does a conquistador. After being taken by the Spaniards, Tammany saves Manana but they become trapped in a cabin which is set on fire 3. Original 4. Harpsichord & Tenor 5. Strophic 6. subito, introduction, coda |
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"I am the very Model"/The Pirates of Penzance/Sullivan/Gilbert/Romantic
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1. Operetta
2. Frederick apprenticed on a pirate ship by mistake, when he turns 21 he leaves ship. Sees women, pirates do too so he attempts to fight pirates. The woman's father comes and lies that he is orphaned so the pirates leave them be. 3. Original 4. Orchestra & Tenor 5. strophic 6. None |
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"Amazon's March"/The Black Crook/Operti/Barras/Romantic
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1. "song and dance" musical
2. a man makes a bargain with the devil that his life with be extended in exchange for delivering other human souls 3. old and familiar premise 4. orchestra & chorus 5. ? 6. ? |
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"Italian Street Song"/Naughty Marietta/Herbert/Young/20th-21st
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1. Operetta
2. Bras Pique - double life as pirate and son of acting governor...mail order bride ends up in NO (Marietta), Captain Dick is trying to catch Bras Pique and is also in love with Marietta... Marietta joins street singers 3. Original 4. Chorus, Soloist, etc 5. ternary 6. star vehicle |
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"I Wants to be An Actor Lady"/In Dahomey/Tilzer/Bryan/20th-21st
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1. musical comedy
2. African American con artists search for a long lost heirloom while preying on "reverse colonists" who are hoping to return to Africa. Rosetta a member of the colony performs... 3. Original 4. singer, piano, drums 5. verse-chorus 6. star turn, interpolation |
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"Yankie Doodle Boy"/Little Johnny Jones/Cohan/"Harris" (Cohan)/20th-21st
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1. musical comedy
2. young jockey comes to england to ride a horse, wins. manipulative gambler convinces him to lose next, he does, "thrown" the race rumor circulates putting his rep in tatters 3. Original 4. tenor/singer, piano, drums 5. verse-chorus 6. production number, interpolation |
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"Cleopatterer"/Leave it to Jane/Kern/Bolton & Wodehouse/20th-21st
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1. Musical Comedy
2. Flora a waitress attempts to woo Bub Hicks by impressing him with History 3. original 4. soprano 5. alternation 6. major and minor scale modes, showstopper |
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"Ol' Man River"/Showboat/Kern/Hammerstein/20th-21st
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1. Musical Theater
2. story about miscegenation, one of the black workers sings this song at the dock of the showboat 3. Novel 4. Bass 5. Song Form 6. duple meter |
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"Supper Time"/As Thousands Cheer/Berlin/Berlin/20th-21st
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1. Revue
2. About a wife grieving her husbands death by a lynch mob 3. News Headlines 4. Singer 5. a-b-c-d-coda 6. None |
