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Basso continuo |
(Italian, “continuous bass”; also known as figured bass ) Instrumental BASS PART in most num-bers (vocal and instrumental) of a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century opera. The written bass line may be played by one or more chord instruments, filling in the harmonies according to the figures written under the notes (hence figured bass ). A melodic bass instrument may double the bass line. |
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Diegetic |
Belonging to the scene that the characters inhabit. Diegetic music in opera is music that the characters are understood to be hearing within the action |
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Recitative |
(from the Italian stile recitativo ) Reciting style. Operatic dialogue in blank verse (nonstrophic poetry), set to talky melodies that allow the singers to control the pacing of their delivery, with spare in-strumental punctuation. |
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Cabaletta |
The brilliant concluding part of a nineteenth-century Italian ARIA, contrasting with the slower, more soulful first part, known as the CANTABILE. |
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Vanishing point |
In a perspective stage set, the ostensibly distant spot to which all the ostensibly horizontal lines in the set point. |
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Cadenza |
(Italian, “cadence”) Wordless, unaccompanied, and theoretically improvised flourish that holds off the final cadence of an ARIA. |
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Acting style |
(in Italian: stile rappresentativo ) or declama-tory style ( stile recitativo ) Style of sung declamation that projects the intonations and pacing of an actor’s delivery more than the elaborations and repetitions of song |
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Singing style |
Songlike style that characters in opera use when they are expressing themselves most po-etically or supposed to be actually singing |
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Ritornello |
(Italian, “refrain”) An orchestral passage that introduces an aria or other vocal number and returns to mark off stages of that number, including the ending. |
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Strophic progression |
Stanzas of text set to musical units that are not identical, but equivalent in length and related to each other in such a way that the whole sequence of units suggests a reasoned pro-gression of thought. Strophic repetition Each stanza of a song sung to the same music. |
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Strophic repetition |
Each stanza of a song sung to the same music. |
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Libretto |
(Italian, “little book”) The dramatic text of an opera, traditionally published and sold to opera goers in the form of a “little book.” |
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Cantabile |
(Italian, “singable”) The slow, soulful first part of a nineteenth-century Italian ARIA, |
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NUMBER OPERA |
TRADITIONAL FORMAT IN WHICH THE ACTION UNFOLDS A SEQUENCE OF DISCRETE NUMBERS |
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Virtuoso Style |
A virtuoso is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument |
