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Baroque Opera - components

Baroque Opera - components. Recitativo Natural inflection of speech Advances the plot Aria Lyric Emotional reflection Ensemble - comment and reflect Overtures and interludes Libretto Ballet (sometimes). Baroque Opera - Composers. Italian 0 Monteverdi (1567-1643)

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Baroque Opera - components

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  1. Baroque Opera - components • Recitativo • Natural inflection of speech • Advances the plot • Aria • Lyric • Emotional reflection • Ensemble - comment and reflect • Overtures and interludes • Libretto • Ballet (sometimes)

  2. Baroque Opera - Composers • Italian 0 Monteverdi (1567-1643) • First master of opera • Orfeo, Arianna, Coronation of Poppea • French - Lully (1632-1687) • Tragédie lyrique • French rejected popular Italian opera. • English - Purcell (1659-1695) • Masque - entertainment with voices, instruments, poetry and dance

  3. Dido and Aeneas - Purcell • New level of musical expression in England • Adventure of hero, Aeneas, after fall of Troy (Virgin’s Aeneid) • Falls in love -- duty calls -- must depart • “Dido’s Lament” • Five measure ground bass - Descending chromatic scale is symbolic of grief in Baroque music.

  4. Late Baroque Opera • Handel (1685-1759) • International figure who united… • Beautiful vocal melody of the Italian School • Stately gestures of the French style • Contrapuntal genius of the Germans • Majestic choral tradition of the English • Opera Seria

  5. J. S. Bach (1685-1750) • Biography, Works and Influences • Report by John Price

  6. J. S. Bach - Vocabulary • Cantata (cantare) • Chorale (Hymn tune) • Congregational singing in German • Clear-cut melody, supported by harmony • Chorale Prelude - organ • Embellished chorale tune

  7. J. S. Bach - Works • Can you name at least five works by J.S. Bach? (see page 154) • Bach raised existing forms to the highest level rather than originating new forms. p. 155

  8. J.S. Bach - Cantata # 80Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott • Setting of Martin Luther’s chorale • Luther probably composed music as well as words • Choruses, arias, recitatives • #1 Choral fugue - polyphonic • #8 Chorale - homophonic

  9. G. F. Handel (1685-1759) • Biography, Works and Influences • Report by Joan Adams

  10. G. F. Handel - Works • More than 40 operas • Oratorios are choral dramas • Chorus - the people - center of the drama • Expanded the chorus’s role • Instrumental music • Can you name at least five works by Handel?

  11. Handel - Messiah • Written down in 24 days • Old and New Testaments • 1st part - the Christmas section • 2nd part - the Easter section • 3rd part - the redemption of the world • Orchestration - mainly strings and continuo • Oboes and bassoons with choral parts • Trumpets and drums for special numbers • French overture • Da Capo Arias

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