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What was opera mostly about?

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Mythical stories

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Why did opera flourish in Italy?

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States ij competition

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When did ‘public’ opera developer in Italy and where

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Venice 1637

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Jacopo Peri Euridice

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1600

Libretto= Ottavio Rinuccini

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5
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How was Peris euridice fit for a wedding?

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Ending changed to be happy

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Where was Peris Euridice first performed?

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Pilti Palas, Florence

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Italian opera structure

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Recitatives

Words structure the music

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What was the focus on in Italian opera?

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Vocal music

Not a large role for Instruments

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Instrumentation of Italian Operas

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Large scale

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Intermedio

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Italian

Musical act inbetween acts of a play

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Castrati

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Boys castrated in Italian opera to keeo high voices

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12
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What does L’Orfeo have the same story as?

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Euridice

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L’Orfeo

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1607

Monteverdi

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Why was L’Orfeo different to other Italian operas e.g Euridice

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Instrumentals e.g ritornelli

Emotion

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15
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What was L’Orfeo written for and how is this shown?

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Duke of Mantuas power display against his brother

Prologue praises the duke

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16
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Italian operas use of instruments

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Used in groups e.g just ww in underworld

Renaissance style

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17
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L’Orfeo act 2

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Greatest range of emotions

Rejoicing then tragedy at Euridice death

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18
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What did Monteverdi start to do?

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Write small public operas

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19
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How did French Operas reflect the ruling style?

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Absolute power of Louis XIV
Absolute control over opera by Jean Baptiste Lully
Palais Royale

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20
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Differences between French and Italian opera

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France had more dance
France had more lavish costumes and set
No Castrato voice in France
French recitative

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French recitative

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Word based (like Aria)
Functional bass line
French

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22
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Why was Lully careful to separate French and Italian Opera

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Lully was Italian
Prologue always in praise of Louis XIV
Louis payed him so he didn’t have to make money

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23
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Tragedie en musique

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French
Love and duty
Drama in 5 acts about mythological subjects
Dance

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French instrumentation

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Smaller
5-part string band
Travelled
Larger role for Instruments

25
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French harmonic repeating pattern

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Chaconne = major
Passacaylia = minor
26
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Lully, Persee, Act 3

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1682
The Palace gardens
Dancing, fight scenes and special effects
Story of Perseus, son of Zeus, ans his fight Against Medusa

27
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What did Intermedio represent?

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Gods/leaders

28
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Who’s wedding was Euridice written for?

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Maria de Medici and French King Henry IV

29
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The Ballet comique de la reine

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French
Showed the richness of King Henris reign
Intrigated music, dance and drama with variety and splendour

30
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What did comic mean in ballet comique de la reine?

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Beautiful, calm and happy conclusion

31
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How were the Intermedi virtuosic?

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Solos, madrigals in elaborate counterpoint, accompanied choruses and sinfonias

32
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What Intermedi was an important precursor to opera and ballet

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Florentine intermedi

33
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What principles of Intermedi formed the general principles for structuring theatrical dance and performance

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Interlocking variations of basic material and music controlling poetry

34
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L’Orfeos advanced thinking

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Inventive use if music to control pace/flow

Symbolic writing

35
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Dramatic centrepiece of Orfeo

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Orfeos prayer to Carante
Strophic variations over slow moving bass line
Solemn sound of trombones mark underworld
Strings represent Orpheuses lyre

36
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Northern Italian festivals

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Showed theatre to the public

37
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Barbenni operas in Rome

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1623
Started to divide into scene
Travelling troupes began to present to the public

38
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Which troupe spread Roman operas?

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Commedia dell’arte
1645
Large opera in French Court

39
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First public opera House in France

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Palais Royale

1670s

40
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How did Commedia Dell’arte influence French opera

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French opera turned away from heroism and increasingly towards human love, influenced by Commedia Dell’arte imagery

41
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De capo aria

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Aria in three parts

1) theme
2) contrasting
3) return of the theme

42
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J. C bach

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Blended German and Italian traditions

Attractive to Mozart

43
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Haydn dates

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1723-1809

Life covered many musical changes

44
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Storm and stress and Haydn

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Tempesta movement

Late 1770s = half his works minor

45
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Why was London important to Haydn?

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Europe’s largest city
Received lots of praise
12 symphonies reinvented sonata form

46
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How did Haydn reinvent sonata form

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2nd subject almost eliminated allowing more extended works

47
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Haydn and ‘the creation’

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Embraces his mature symphonic style hut also draws on Vuennese traditions and an English, Handelian one

48
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Mozart dates

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1756-1791

24 yesrs after Haydn

49
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How did Mozart piano concertos enlarge the idea of Concertos

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Added a sonata form in which solo episodes alternate with Ritornellos
Dialogue between orchestra and piano
Piano elaborated orchestral ideas

50
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Mozart finest manifestation of counterpoint

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‘Jupiter’

Piano symphonies fell out of favour = mozart in trouble

51
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Mozart first great opera

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Idomeneo

52
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How did Mozart develop comic opera

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Infusing it with a new humanity and depth

Characters recognisable and defined by their music

53
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Mozart and opera music

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Music representations 
Defined class and situation of a character
54
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Mozart and the freemasons

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Was a freemason from 1784

Magic flute defines the age of enlightenment

55
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Opera worldwide

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Each country has its own form of light opera

Italian = language of court opera so Italians held important positions

56
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Boccherini

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Isolation in Spain = away from mainstream

Individuality

57
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Clementi

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Pupil of Haydn and competed with Mozart before the Emporer

Experiments with pianoforte and developed thr nocturne style Chopin went on to use

58
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Beethkven6

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Climax and dissolution of classical music

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