Music History II- Classical Period Flashcards
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Humanitarianism
Comedy Opera
Opera Buffa
Italian comic opera. Performed in two or three segments between the acts of a serious opera or play
Intermezzo
Serious Opera
Opera Seria
Italian poet who worked at the German imperial court in Vienna. Creator of Opera Serio
Pietro Metastasio
Expanded format: 2 vocal statements in the A section, which became that standard aria form in the 18th century
Abbreviated Da Capo
Member of the Royal Academy of Music. Amazing Italian soprano, married Johann Adolf Hasse.
Faustina Bordoni
Gave operas spoken dialogue. Despite the name these operas had serious plots.
Opera Comique
The English form of opera. Spoken dialogue and songs that set new words to borrowed tunes.
Ballad Opera
Satirized London society by replacing the ancient heroes and elevated sentiments of traditional opera with modern urban thieves and prostitutes and their crimes.
The Beggar’s Opera
New German genre. Featured spoken dialogue, musical numbers, usually centered on a comic plot of love
Singspiel
Movement to make the design more “natural” - more flexible in structure, more expressive, less ornamented, more varied musical resources. Alternated recitatives and arias more flexible
Opera Reform
Wrote French, Italian, and German operatic styles. Studied under Giovanni Battista Sammartini in Italy. Became court composer to Emperor Charles VI at Vienna. Under the patronage of Marie Antoinette in Paris. Collaborated with the poet Ranieri Calzabigi to produce Orfeo ed Euridce and Alceste
Cristoph Willibald Gluck
French term for the manners and attitudes cultivated at courts
Galant
German for “sensitive style.” Characterized by surprising turns of harmony, chromaticism, nervous rhythms, and rhapsodically free speech-like melody. Example: fantasias.
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