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opera
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a composite art form developed at the end of the Italian Renaissance to re-create ancient Greek dramas
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opera buffa
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a lighthearted or sentimental type of opera- usually with "everyday" characters or broad comic types
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French Opera comique
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a serious or even tragic story using spoken dialogue
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German Singspiel
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covers lighthearted subjects but connects the musical numbers with spoken dialogue
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opera seria
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a serious and elevated type of opera usually without spoken dialogue. Historically dealing with mythic and legendary subjects
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libretto
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the text (or script) for an opera
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score
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the written musical setting for an opera. A full score indicates all the vocal lines and orchestral instruments separately; a piano vocal score indicates vocal lines separately but combines orchestral lines into a part a piano can play
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Florentine Camerata
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a group of artists, musicians and scholars that developed opera in the 1590's as a recreation of Ancient Greek drama
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Baroque
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the period from about 1600-1750 in which opera first flourished, characterized by an increasingly ornate and heavily structured compositional style; mythical, legandary, or elevated historical subject matter for serious works
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Classical
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the period from about 1750-1800 corresponding with the Age of Enlightenment; characterized by new flexibility of musical structure; cleaner and simpler style; new respect for comedy and ordinary people as subject matter
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the three tenors
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Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti
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Which composer belongs to the Baroque period
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George Frederic Handel
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What was the name of Handel's opera?
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Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar)
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Which two Composers belong to the Classical period?
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Christoph Willibald Gluck (look), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (moat-zart)
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What was the name of Gluck's opera?
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Orfeo ed Euridce
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What was the name of Mozart's opera?
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Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
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