Final Songs Flashcards
Orpheus song title
Act Two Finale
Orpheus composer
Jacques Offenbach
Composer of the first operetta
Jacques Offenbach
Show Boat music
Jerome Kern
Show Boat lyrics
Oscar Hammerstein II
Show Boat novel
Edna Ferber
Coloratura
elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody, especially in operatic singing by a soprano.
Concept Album
a rock album featuring a cycle of songs expressing a particular theme or idea.
Operetta
a short opera, usually on a light or humorous theme and typically having spoken dialogue.
Orchestration
the arrangement or scoring of music for orchestral performance.
Cantata
a medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra.
Ostinato
a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.
Fourth Wall
the space that separates a performer or performance from an audience.
Musical Play
focus on superior libretto, possibly from a “serious” source like a novel or straight play, socially important subject matter, music is organic to libretto, fully integrated elements
Libretto
the text of an opera or other long vocal work.
Leitmotif
a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
Dies Irae Melody
melody from a roman catholic mass called “mass for the dead”, directly translates to “day of wrath”
Pointillism
a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer’s eye.
Polyphonic
producing many sounds simultaneously; many-voiced.
Book Musical
tell a narrative while Revues are a collection of acts - sometimes with a theme, sometimes completely disparate
Pirates music
Arthur Sullivan
Pirates libretto
William Gilbert
Oklahoma composer
Richard Rogers
Oklahoma libretto
Oscar Hammerstein II
