Chapter 35: Making it Real: Mozart and Classical Opera Flashcards
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Opera Seria
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Tragic Italian opera. (page 203)
2
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Ballad
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A form of English street song, popular from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Ballads are characterized by narrative content and strophic form. (page 204)
3
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Opera
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Music drama that is generally sung throughout, combining the resources of vocal and instrumental music with poetry and drama, acting and dancing, scenery and costumes. (page 204)
4
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Singspiel
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Comic German drama with spoken dialogue; the immediate predecessor of Romantic German opera. (page 204)
5
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Opera Cornique
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French comic opera, with some spoken dialogue. (page 204)
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Opera Buffa
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Italian comic opera, sung throughout. (page 204)