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15 Cards in this Set
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Basso Continuo
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Instrumental Bass part in most numbers of a 17th or 18th century opera
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Diegetic
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belonging to the scene the characters inhabit - background music heard in action
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Recitative
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reciting style operatic dialogue in blank verse
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Liberetto
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dramatic text of an opera
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Number Opera
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librettist arrange text in sections that take various poetic forms
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Cadenza
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wordless, flourish at the end before the close
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Aside
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thoughts that a character addresses to no one else present onstage indicated by parenthesis around words
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Arioso
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style of operatic speech in which text is declaimed as in recitative while the accompaniment has the constant rhythms
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Acting Style
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Style of sung declamation that projects the intonations and pacing of an actor's delivery
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Singing Style
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songlike style that characters in opera use when they are expressing themselves
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Ritornello
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an orchestral passage that introduces an aria or other vocal number and returns to mark off stages of that number
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Strophic repetition
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each stanza of a song sung to the same music
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Strophic progression
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the text stanzas, all identical in form, become musical units that are not identical to each other, but are equivalent in length, related to each other in such a way that the whole sequence suggests a reasoned progression of thought.
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Rhetoric
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The art of persuasion
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Virtuoso Style
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Self-glorifying flood of notes (style of singing)
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