Music Flashcards

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story set in into music with several acts, finales, and postludes.

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Opera

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  • In opera singing, Opera technique is called … which means beautiful singing.
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Bel Canto

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 Opera singers traditionally use much more … a slow, cyclic variation or wobble in pitch.

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Vibrato

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 The main languages to focus on for opera singing are

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Italian, French, and German

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 Opera singers make use of a technique called

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Resonance Tuning

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was the Late-Romantic Italian composer

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Giacomo Puccini

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Giacomo Puccinni composed the score for

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La Boheme

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is the term for the component of an opera in which the compo ser and librettist work together to set the musical notes, words, and ideas that help the performers tell the story

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Score

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9
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is the term for a musical composition for solo voice and piano accompaniment, inspired by poetry from the Romantic period

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Art song

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10
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was the German composer whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music.

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Richard Wagner

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is the component of an opera contains the story or the plot and its text.

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Libretto

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is the term for singing without instrumental accompaniment.

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Acapella

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13
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is the title of the overture that depicts the story of a Swiss patriot and revolutionary.

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William Tell Overture

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14
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is an instrumental composition that serves as an introduction to an opera

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Overture

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15
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is the instrument used as an accompaniment for an art song.

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Piano

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