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Midterm Flashcards

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Composers of the Classical era (3)

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Mozart, Beethoven, Hayden

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Composers of the Baroque era (7)

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Handel, Monteverdi, Purcell, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Lully, Rameau

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Composers of the Bel Canto era (3)

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Rossini, Belini, Donezetti

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composers of french 19th century opera(5)

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Meyerbeer, Bizet, Gounod, Offenbach, Massenet

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People responible for opera reforms between the Classical and Baroque era

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Gluck, Zeno, and Metastasio

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What were Glucks thoughts on opera of his time

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Too ornate

wanted to focus on the importance of DRAMA

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How did Zeno and Metastasio reform opera

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opera was to take place in a 24 hour period
less characters(6-8)
eliminated comic scenes (Opera Seria)
Created the exit aria

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types of Reccitative

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Accompagnato

Secco

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Accompagnato reccitative

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Full orchestra with basso continuo

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Secco Reccitative

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chordal instrument with basso continuo (harpsichord and cello)

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what composer is known for his comic operas and name one

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Rossini-Barber of Seville

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what two composers are known for their tragic operas?

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Donezetti and Belini

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What elements were found in Donezetti and Belini’s tragic operas

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mad scene, tragedy, and death

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Grand opera

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exotic plots, biblical themes, big chorus

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What is the distiction between opera comique and grand opera?

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Opera-comique not nocessarily comiv, although it has its origins in cmmedia dell’arte and parodies of tragedie-lyrique

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Le devin du village (1752)

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Rousseau

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Big names in opera comique

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Philidor, Monsigny, Gretry,Delibes, Saint-saens, Massenet, Chabrier, Lalo, Gounod, Bizet

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Dance styles in opera-comique

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polonaise, polka, waltz

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Richard, Coeur de Lion

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Gretry

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Guillaume Tell

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Rossini

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Robert le diable

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Meyerbeer

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Les Huguenots

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Meyerbeer

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Le Roi de Lahore

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Massenet

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When did the death of opera seria come about?

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Social changes around the time of the French revolution and the popularity of opera buffa

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Bel canto as a historical term

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The operas of Rossini, Bellini, and Doizetti that require tremendous technical facility from their singersmid1820’s-early1840s

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Bel canto as a technique

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singer is instructed to expand the abdominal area during inhalation while keeping an open throat, aim for a mask placement, and work to maintain vocal flexibility

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Lucia di Lammermoor

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Donizetti

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L’Elisir d’amore

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Donizetti

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La Fille du regiment

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Donizetti

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Don Pasquale

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Donizetti

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La Sonnambula

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Bellini

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I Puritani

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Bellini

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I Capuleti e i Montecchi

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Bellini

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Anna Bolena

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Donizetti

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When did the revival of the bel canto era have a revival?

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after WWII ( Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills, and Marilyn Horne)

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The Three Queen Operas

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Anna Bolena, Roberto Devereux, and Maria Stuarda (Donizetti)

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La Cenerentola

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Rossini

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L’Italiana in Algieri

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Rossini

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Sehnsucht

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Romantic ideal- Longing for the unknown and unknowable ( even that which does not exist)

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Romanticism began with…

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Premier of Victor Hugo’s Hernani/ Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantasitque

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Sorrows of Young Wether, Faust, and Wilhelm Meister

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Goethe

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Fidelio

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Beethoven

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Rescue Opera

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People could save people rather than the gods saving people. Ordinary people could do extrordinary things

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Commedia dell’arte

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(the art of comedy)

charicters were real peopl

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La Serva Padrone

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Pegolesi

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Abduction for the Seraglio

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Mozart

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Marriage of Figaro

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Mozart

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Don Giovanni

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Mozart

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Cosi fan Tutte

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Mozart

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Mozart’s librestist

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Lorenzo da Ponte

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The French hated castrati, therefore they used

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haute-contre

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Beginning of french opera

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1660’s

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founder of the french overature

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Lully

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Alceste

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Lully

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Cadmus and Hesione

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Lully

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Dido and Aeneas

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Purcell

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Orfeo 1607

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Monteverdi

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Arianna 1608

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Monteverdi

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Il Ritorno D’ulisse

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Monteverdi

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Coronazione di Poppea

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Monteverdi

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First opera

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Dafne (Corsi, Peri, Rinuccini) Lost

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Euridice 1600

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Corsi and Peri

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Euridice 1602

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Caccini

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Two most important compers of french opera in the Baroque Period

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Lully, Rameau

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Monteverdi’s first opera

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Orfeo

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Baroque english opera composers

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Pucell and Handel

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formal structure of da capo aria

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ABA

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Formal characteristics of the French ocerature

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ABAprime form-Lully

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Giulio Cesare in Egitto

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Handel

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Goals of the Camerata di Bardi

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Dramatization of the text and music to be the centerpiece of opera

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Orfeo ed Euridice

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Gluck and Metastasio

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Opera buffas

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comic operas (mozart)

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Dramma giocoso

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drama with funny elements

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Der Freischutz

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Weber

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Zar und Zimmermann

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Lortzing

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Tales of Hoffman

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Offenbach

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Nabucco

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Verdi

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La Traviata

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Verdi

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Libretist for Falstaff and Otello

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Arrigo Boito

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Manon

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Massenet

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Manon les caut

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Puccini

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Thuis

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Massenet

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Werther

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Massenet

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Les Troyons

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Berlioz

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Beatrice et Benedict

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Berlioz

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Benvento Cellini

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Berlioz

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