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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
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
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
Donizetti
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L'Elisir d'amore
Donizetti
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La Fille du regiment
Donizetti
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Don Pasquale
Donizetti
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La Sonnambula
Bellini
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I Puritani
Bellini
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I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Bellini
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Anna Bolena
Donizetti
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When did the revival of the bel canto era have a revival?
after WWII ( Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills, and Marilyn Horne)
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The Three Queen Operas
Anna Bolena, Roberto Devereux, and Maria Stuarda (Donizetti)
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La Cenerentola
Rossini
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L'Italiana in Algieri
Rossini
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Sehnsucht
Romantic ideal- Longing for the unknown and unknowable ( even that which does not exist)
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Romanticism began with...
Premier of Victor Hugo's Hernani/ Berlioz's Symphonie Fantasitque
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Sorrows of Young Wether, Faust, and Wilhelm Meister
Goethe
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Fidelio
Beethoven
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Rescue Opera
People could save people rather than the gods saving people. Ordinary people could do extrordinary things
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Commedia dell'arte
(the art of comedy) | charicters were real peopl
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La Serva Padrone
Pegolesi
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Abduction for the Seraglio
Mozart
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Marriage of Figaro
Mozart
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Don Giovanni
Mozart
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Cosi fan Tutte
Mozart
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Mozart's librestist
Lorenzo da Ponte
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The French hated castrati, therefore they used
haute-contre
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Beginning of french opera
1660's
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founder of the french overature
Lully
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Alceste
Lully
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Cadmus and Hesione
Lully
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Dido and Aeneas
Purcell
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Orfeo 1607
Monteverdi
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Arianna 1608
Monteverdi
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Il Ritorno D'ulisse
Monteverdi
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Coronazione di Poppea
Monteverdi
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First opera
Dafne (Corsi, Peri, Rinuccini) Lost
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Euridice 1600
Corsi and Peri
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Euridice 1602
Caccini
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Two most important compers of french opera in the Baroque Period
Lully, Rameau
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Monteverdi's first opera
Orfeo
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Baroque english opera composers
Pucell and Handel
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formal structure of da capo aria
ABA
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Formal characteristics of the French ocerature
ABAprime form-Lully
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Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Handel
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Goals of the Camerata di Bardi
Dramatization of the text and music to be the centerpiece of opera
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Orfeo ed Euridice
Gluck and Metastasio
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Opera buffas
comic operas (mozart)
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Dramma giocoso
drama with funny elements
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Der Freischutz
Weber
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Zar und Zimmermann
Lortzing
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Tales of Hoffman
Offenbach
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Nabucco
Verdi
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La Traviata
Verdi
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Libretist for Falstaff and Otello
Arrigo Boito
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Manon
Massenet
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Manon les caut
Puccini
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Thuis
Massenet
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Werther
Massenet
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Les Troyons
Berlioz
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Beatrice et Benedict
Berlioz
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Benvento Cellini
Berlioz

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