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• Through-composed
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o Type of opera where there are no divisions such as recitative and aria
o Created by Richard Strauss Wagner |
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• Metastasio
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o Writer/poet
o His lebretti were set over and over again by different composers |
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Lorenzo Daponte
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Librettist
Worked with Mozart Marriage of Figaro Cosi fanTutti Dan Giovanni |
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Secco Recitative
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dry, song/speech
-closest to speech while still singing -Accompanied by continuo—a bass line, usually played on cello/other low instrument +harpschord or guitar filling in chords |
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Troubadour time period
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height of popularity is around 1200
Total years, 1100-1350 |
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Troubaritz
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Female Troubador
Only about 25 total |
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Troubadour song themes
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Mostly about chivalry and courtly love
-also had intellectual, humorous, or satirical |
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Troubadour styles
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Trobar leu (light)
Trobar ric (rich) Trobar clus (closed) |
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Troubadour genres
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Canso-most popular
Sirventes Tensos |
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Canso (love song)
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3 parts
-Exordium-composer explains purpose -main body of song occurs in following stanzas -ends in tomada or envoi-brings some sort of resolution |
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Sirventes (servent)
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Same style as canso,
looked at current events from the perspective of a servant (sirventes) |
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tensos
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Takes form of a debate
Each position defends topic relating to love or ethics |
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zeugma
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I can't lie I lie here with you
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Canso rhyme scheme
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stanzaic, usually 5 or 6 nonce stanzas of identical pattern.
expected to be original in form. The metric length of the line, the number of lines in a stanza, the rhyme scheme was expected to be different from anything that had gone before. |
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ShowBoat
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Oscar Hammerstein II -music by Jerome Kern
-1927 -about racial prejudice -marks departure from operettas, because it was a "musical play" -First fully integrated play |
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Golden era of Broadway
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40s and 50s
Radio would play Broadway hits |
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Oklahoma
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-Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
-1943 -epitomized development of "book musical" -songs and dances are fully integrated into a well-made story with serious dramatic goals that is able to evoke genuine emotions other than laughter |
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West Side Story
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Script-Laurents, Music-Bernstein
-1957 -explores rivalry between ethnic street gangs -Choreographed by Jerome Robbins -Stephen Sondheim worked on the lyrics |
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Hair
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1967
Hippy Musical Nudity Audience Interaction Production of hippie counter culture and sexual revolution |
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Stephen Sondheim
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-Known for musical theater
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Musical Theatre
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Form of theatre combines song, spoken dialogue, and dance.
-he emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole |
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Book Musical
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Defined as musical play where songs and dances are fully integrated into a well-made story
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"book" of a musical
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refers to the story, character dev. Dramatic structure including spoken dialogue.
'music' and 'lyrics' together form the 'score' of the musical |
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'book' in opera
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dialogue and lyrics togethers
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Gilbert and sullivan
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Pioneered musical theatre
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Editing steps
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Read piece aloud
Look for pronouns Look for timeline First line syndrome Objectivity-what does this say Look for who singer is addressing Do songs cover too much? Do songs repeat same thing? |
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Aria
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Solo song
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De capo Aria
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Aria with ABA structure.
Second A has embellishments |
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Leitmotif
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a recurring theme, associated with a particular person, place, or idea
o Short musical phrases (a few notes, a line) associated with a quality, thing or character o Ex: Jaws o Invented by Richard Wagner |
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polytonality
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refers to playing musical notes in different tones as the same time
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tone row
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refers to a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes in musical set theory of the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller sets are sometimes found.
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atonal
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music lacking tone or key. Found early 1900s
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tonal
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based on hierarchical pitch, tone, or "key"
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Accompanied recitative
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recitative with orchestra
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recitative
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speaking
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Company
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A musical. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
-concept musical. -composed of short vignetts |
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Music Man
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meredith Wilson
1957 |
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BlAT
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Come up with subject
Write about it Then comes music, rhythym, tempo. Reblat if necessary |
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Troubadour light
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light style of poetry, most popular
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Troubadour rich
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verbal gymnastics
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troubadour
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composer of lyric poetry
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