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1
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What was the main music country to be effected by fascism?

A

Italy

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2
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Where was the birthplace of opera?

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Italy

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What language do most operas use?

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Italian

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Give examples of Italian vocabulary to describe music?

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Allegro, crescendo, diminuendo, tempi, legato

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Who was the most successful opera composer?

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Giacomo Puccini, 1858-1924

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What took over opera during the facist regime?

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Cinema

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What is Puccinis most famous song?

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Nessun Dorma

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What was different about Nessun dorma?

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It was aimed to be mass produced on a 78rpm disk

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Who dominated Italian operatic tradition from the 19th century?

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Giuseppe Verdi

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10
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What was different about Italian opera?

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Very formal, dominated by conventions

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Why did the big business of opera fail after Puccini and Verdi?

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Successor not found, no one good enough to fill their shoes

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12
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Who influenced Italian fascism the most?

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Gabrielle D’Anninzio

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What was D’Annunzio?

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Poet, novelist, pkaywright, politician, soldier said to be the inventor of fascism

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What did D’Annunzio help create?

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Rediscovery of old Italian music e.g Monteverdi 1567-1643

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What is the only peice of music to have survived from fascist Italy?

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Pines of Rome, by Ottorino Respighi

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When did Mussolini take power over Italy?

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October 1922

17
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What was different to Mussolini’s approach to music?

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No stylistic restraints like Stalin or hitler instead promotion of the Italian image abroad

18
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How did Mussolini promote the Italian image?

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Threw money at Italian arts organisations, opera houses new festivals in Venice and Florence

19
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What do modernists composers do?

A

Ally them selves with the Regime

20
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What happened to Pizzetti Debora e Jaele?

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not played after composer death, represents D’Annunzian opera, shows lack of continuation of opera

21
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Which fascist composer campaigned against anti semitism?

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Luigi Dallapiccola

22
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What phrase demonstrated Mussolini’s stance towards Italian fascism?

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Andare Verso Il Popolo, Go towards the people

23
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Why is a new composer not found to opera?

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New composers didn’t want to follow the bourgeois model

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