Chapter 21 mmmm

notes

Opera and Vocal Music in the Classic Period

Early
Italian comic
opera
-

opera buffa ( comic

opera )
dramma (jesting
alternating
-

drama
giocoso
( )
drama drama
recitative
-

comic 0 comic

Commedia
per
music a
Comedy in music and
Opera buffa these aria
is used to encompass all
types today .

↳ full work with

a
length six or more
singing
characters
sung throughout
-

caricatures
-

frivolous
galah style
moral Arias
light pleasant
-
-

, .

Arias made of
in comic
operas
are
typically in
gaknt style up short phrases

Petrometastasof
,

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Intermezzo performed

seriousopera.lk#pea
: 2 3 btwn acts of serious
play
in
segments
a
opera
or

Hay
or

around 1700 when removed from serious

Originated
scenes
-

comic were
opera
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Italian comic lot 18 th be
opera changed
a
during the
.

century
Also ensemble finales introduced unlike
supplemented into comic
operas here
anything
in
previous
.

influenced hkrnationa
style
Opera Seria
standardized
by poet ) who 's dramas set to music times
including
-

were
many
,

Mozart Gluck Court Vienna

by and .

poet in

conflicts of human love based Greek tales 1% Hines

duty
Latin
passions vs +
-

on
mane
, ,

recitatives and arias occasional duets ensembles

mating larger
,
some
,

Da capo aria : ABA

favored in 181hL Scotch Snap
early
-

melodies in short musical and normal al

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variety material mood
units of
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.

-
two contrasted Scotch Good I •t• |•r•d
keys
: .
. .

destabilizing elements
-

syncopations
-

Welle des bouffors = Quarrel of the comic actors Gluck (1714-1787)

-

what's better ? French or Italian ? French German Italian

styles
-

, ,

the Ballad the local affected of 1750 s

England Opera reform
and the
in
language by
-

opera
-

conflict
dialogue interspersed 4 songs words to borrowed dramatic
-

tunes
-

new
,

-
Over time music
original
more
,

a
The John
Gay 1728 Singspiel
libretto
Beggar's Opera by singing plays
=
-

0
Satirized London -

Spoken dialogue musical numbers

Society ,

modernized thieves comic

-

urban
, prostitutes ,
crime plot
-

Germany + Austria ,
started 1710