Audio Review - Secular vocal - all periods Flashcards
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Title: Ce fut en mai
Genre: chanson
Period: Middle Ages
Composer: d’Arras
Texture: monophonic
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Title: Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
Genre: madrigal (Italian)
Period: Renassiance
Composer: Gesualdo
Texture: polyphonic
Number of voices:5
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-Title of the entire piece: L’Orfeo
-Genre of the entire work: Italian opera
-Title (the first couple words) of this recording: “Tu se’morta” (translation: You are dead, my life)
-Genre of the recording: recitative
-Character singing this piece: Orfeo
-Period: Baroque
-Composer: Monteverdi
-Librettist: Striggio
-Source of plot: Greek Mythology
-What is this song about? Orfeo just learned his wife, Euridice is dead. He is sad and determined to get her back from the underworld.”
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Title: My Bonny Lass She Smileth
Genre: Madrial (English)
Period: Renaissance
Composer: Morley
Texture:homohphonic/polyphonic
Number of voices: 5
Language: English
p. 71
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-Title of the entire piece: L’Orfeo
-Genre of the entire work: Italian opera
-Title (the first couple words) of this recording: -“Ahi, caso acerbo)
-Genre of the recording: Chorus
-Character singing this piece: chorus
-Period: Baroque
-Composer: Monteverdi
-Librettist; Striggio
-Source of plot: Greek Mythology
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p. 73
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-Title of the entire piece: Dido & Aenease
-Genre of the entire work: English opera
-Title of this recording: “Dido’s Lament”
-Genre of the recording: recitativo secco
-Character singing this piece: Dido
-Firist three words of the recording: “Thy hand, Belinda.”
-Period: Baroque
-Composer: Purcell
-Librettist: Nahum Tate
-Source of plot: Virgil’s (Roman poet) poem, Aeneid
-What is this song about? Dido sings her sadness to Belinda and prepares herself for death
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- descending vocal line sumbolies death and grief
- melisma on ‘darkness’
- chromaticism on ‘death’
p. 74
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-Title of the entire piece: Dido & Aenease
-Genre of the entire work: English opera
-Title of this recording: “When I’m laid in Earth”
-Genre of the recording: aria
-Character singing this piece: Dido
-First few words of the recording: “When I Am Laid in Earth.”
-Period: Baroque
-Composer: Purcell
-Librettist: Nahum Tate
-Source of plot: Virgil’s (Roman poet) poem, Aeneid
-The compositional device used in the recording: ground bass (5 measures patterns, repeated 11 times)
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- descending melisma on ‘laid’ in earth
- repetition of ‘remember me’ on repeated-note motive
p. 74
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Title of the entire piece: Dido & Aenease
-Genre of the entire work: English opera
-Title of this recording: With Drooping Wings”
-Genre of the recording: chorus
-Character singing this piece: chorus
-Period: Baroque
-Composer: Purcell
-Librettist: Nahum Tate
-Source of plot: Virgil’s (Roman poet) poem, Aeneid
-Texture in this recording: polyphonic
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- descending lines on “droooping wings”
- two-note melodic sigh figures on “soft”
p. 77
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-Title of the entire piece: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt)
-Genre of the entire work: opera seria
-Title and translation (the first couple words) of this recording: “V’adoro pupille” (I adore you, o eyes)
-Character singing this piece: Cleopatra
-Genre of the recording:Aria
- Form of the song in the recording: da capo aria
-Period: Baroque
-Composer: Handel
-Librettist:Haym
-Source of plot: ancient Roman history
-What is this song about? Cleopatra appears in a play within a play and hopes to seduce Julius Caesar so he would help her to be a queen in Egypt again.
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-Title of the entire piece: The Marriage of Figaro
-Genre of the entire work: opera buffa
-Genre of the recording: Overture
-Form of the recording: modified sonata
-Period: Classical
-Composer: Mozart
-Librettist: da Ponte
-Source of libretto: play by Beaumarchais
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-Title of the entire piece: The Marriage of Figaro
-Genre of the entire work: opera buffa
-Language: Italian
-Title and translation (the first few words) of this recording: “non so piu” (I don’t know what I am)
-Genre of the recording: Aria
-Character singing this piece: Cherubino
-Period: Classical
-Composer: Mozart
-Librettist: da Ponte
-Source of libretto: a play by Beaumarchais
-What is this song about? Cherubino is in Susanna’s bedroom. He signs about love and his attractions to women
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-Title of the entire piece: The Marriage of Figaro
-Genre of the entire work: opera buffa
-Language: Italian
-Title and translation (the first few words) of this recording: “Cosa sento!” (What do I hear!)
-Genre of the recording: Terzetto
-Form of the recording: sonata form
-Character singing this piece: Count, Basilio, Susanna
-Period: Classical
-Composer: Mozart
-Librettist: da Ponte
-Source of libretto: a play by Beaumarchais
-What is this song about? The Count is angry at Cherubino; Basilio is pleased at the troubles he caused; and Susanna is worried that the Count will find Cherubino in her room. The differnt feelings and emotions are expressed in the trio.
