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Music - Romantic Opera Flashcards

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became increasingly popular during the Romantic period. It is a musical composition having all or most of its text set to music with arias, recitative, choruses, duets, trios, etc. sung to orchestral accompaniment.

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Opera

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Characteristics of Opera:

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elaborate costumes, scenery and
choreography

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Components of an Opera:

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  • Libretto
  • Score
  • Recitative
  • Aria
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the text of an opera. Librettist and the composer work closely together to tell the story.

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Libretto

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Declamatory singing, used in the prose parts and
dialogue of opera. Different roles in operas are created taking into account different types of voices. Each role requires a different type of singer, not only able to sing a given vocal range but also with certain voice characteristics, color and power.

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Recitative

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The book that the composer and librettist put together. has all the musical notes, words and ideas to help the performers tell the story. Often, there are operas with overtures, preludes, prologues, several acts, finales and
postludes.

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Score

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Components for Male Voice: Singing Voices

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  1. Tenor
  2. Baritone
  3. Bass
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an air or solo singing part sung by a principal character. This song is what the public will remember best when leaving the opera house. Properly and well sung, a beautiful aria can bring an audience to its feet and decide the fate of an
entire opera.

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Aria

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lowest male voice; plays the priests, kings, fathers, and devil

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Bass

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highest male voice; plays the hero, lover, and doomed hunk

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Tenor

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Middle male voice, lies between Bass and Tenor voices. It is the common male voice. plays the villain, evil prison wardens, etc

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Baritone

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Components of Female Voice: Singing Voices

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  1. Soprano
  2. Coloratura
  3. Mezzo-Soprano
  4. Contralto
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Highest soprano voice
- Lyric; bright and full sound
- Dramatic; darker full sound

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Coloratura

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highest female voice; plays heroines, sweet things, and get paid the most

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Soprano

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lowest female voice and most unique among female. Plays the maids, mothers, grandmothers and witches.

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Contralto

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most common female voice; strong middle
voice, tone is darker or deeper than the soprano.
Slightly lower woman’s voice; plays evil characters, seductress, and teenage boys

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Mezzo-Soprano

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______ and _____ embellishments were used to further affect the way singers sing

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Dynamics and vocal

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Dynamics and vocal embellishments

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  • Acapella
  • Cantabile
  • Capo
  • Coda
  • Dolce
  • Falsetto
  • Glissando
  • Passagio
  • Rubato
  • Tessitura
  • Vibrato
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one or more singers performing without
instrumental accompaniment. (a)

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Acapella

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Head, the beginning (c)

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Capo

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sweetly

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Dolce

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In a singing style (c)

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Cantabile

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closing section appended to a movement or song. (c)

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Coda

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a weaker and more airy voice usually in the higher pitch ranges

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Falsetto

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  • sliding quickly between 2 notes/
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Glissando

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parts of a singing voice where register transitions
occur.

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Passagio

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  • slight speeding up or slowing down of the tempo of a piece at the discretion of the soloist. (r)
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Rubato

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 Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

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Madame Butterfly

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the most comfortable singing range of a singer

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Tessitura

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rapidly repeated slight pitch variation during a
sustained note, to give a richer & more varied sound.

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Vibrato

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Two Famous Operas of the Romantic Period:

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La Traviata and Madame Butterfly

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  • Libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Ilica.From the short story by John Luther Lung, derived from Pierre Loti‟s tale Madame Chrysantheme.
  • Romantic tragedy. Set numbers; recitative. Setting: Nagasaki, Japan, at the beginning of the 20th century. Two acts; Act 2 with two parts
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Madame Butterfly

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  • Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
  • Libretto in Italian by Francesco Maria Piave, based on “La Dame aux
    Camélias,” play by Alexandre Dumas after his novel by the same name. The play is known in English as “Camille.” Premiere: Venice,
    March 6, 1853
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LA TRAVIATA

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  • Categorized as a Romantic tragedy.
  • Set in Paris, France during 1850.
  • Originally in three acts, but present-day productions are usually in four acts dividing the original Act II
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LA TRAVIATA

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 ACT I: Violetta‟s Paris salon, luxuriously furnished
 ACT II: A villa near Paris
 ACT III: Ballroom in Flora‟s mansion
 ACT IV: Violetta‟s bedroom

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LA TRAVIATA

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  • An instrumental composition intended especially as an introduction to an extended work, such as an opera
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Overtures

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a short piece generally played as an introduction to another larger musical piece

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Preludes

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a closing piece of music

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Postlude

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An introduction or preface

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Prologues

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Other parts of the Opera

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  • Duets, trios, small ensemble, and chorus
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a specialized performer who trains extensively in music and theatre in order to perform opera, a celebrated and demanding form of performance
that combines musical score and text.

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Opera Singer

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an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (libretto) and musical score

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Opera

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The English word, OPERA is an abbreviation of the Italian phrase “____ __ ____” or “work in music”.

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Opera in musica

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is used to communicate people’s feelings and emotions rather than
plain words or pictures.

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Music in Opera

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music is the act of creating and playing new music without much preparation. Requires the performer to instantly reproduce what
your mind suggests. Can be done
with or without prior preparations.

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Improvisation

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