It's the text of an opera, as opposed to the music
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Opera - Wikipedia  Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text ... Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. It started ... Willibald Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his "reform" operas in the 1760s.
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Opera terminology - Opera Providence  Choral music sung without instrumental accompaniment. Act. One of the main divisions of a drama, opera or ballet, usually completing a part of the action and often having a climax of its own. ... Harmony is the chordal or vertical structure of a piece of music, as opposed ... The person who writes the text (words) of the opera.
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Opera Terms Pronunciation Guide - Patricia Gray  Usually they emphasize musical expression more than the text. ... The first example was The Beggar's Opera (1728) by John Gay, with music arranged by J. Pepusch. ... aria or a section of an aria seems to be coming to its close (its cadence spot); .... grand opera - opera which is sung from start to finish, as opposed to opera...
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Glossary of Operatic Terms - OPERA America  ACT: A portion of an opera designated by the composer, which has a dramatic structure of its own. ... A singer of comic roles (basso-buffo) or a comic opera (opera-buffa). .... LYRICS: The sung words or text of a musical comedy or operetta song. ... as opposed to an overture which is longer and can be played as a separate...
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Opera Music Genres - Music Genre List  The most comprehensive list of Opera Music genres available on the Internet ... more than the sum of its parts, with the music supporting and intensifying the lyrics ... launched another unsuccessful armada against England and most of Europe...
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OPERA REVIEW - An Early Verdi Comedy That He Wasn't Fond of ...  Jul 16, 1994 ... "Un Giorno di Regno" may be two hours of chirpy, formulaic music of ... going against them as "Un Giorno di Regno," Verdi's second opera. ... In this early comedy (Verdi's only one until "Falstaff"), the Cavalier ... of Poland (hence the title, usually translated as "King for a Day"), and, ... Command Performance...
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Full text of "The New Music Review and Church Music Review"  For all these airs the editor has written accom- paniments which express, through modem ... There is no doubt that Mendelssohn was jealous, envious, call it what one will, ... are those written by Liszt and Berlioz to the Princess de Witt- genstein. ... The Princess had her own ideas about the "ideal" opera; one so perfect that,...
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Ravel - Bolero and other orchestral works - A Good-Music-Guide ...  As an example, his orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition so captured ... to add tonal color and convert it from a simple piano piece to an orchestral ballet. ... It was left to the audience to guess the composer after it was played.
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well, 'Bolero' me over! Ravel wrote an opera... - Operatoonity.com  Apr 17, 2010 ... Since then, I've found it ironic that a French composer, like Bizet and ... I also was surprised to learn Maurice Ravel wrote an opera, a one-act musical comedy with 21 ... It is based on a play by Franc-Nohain, who also wrote the libretto. ... I recommend checking it out; it's got a libretto by Colette and is very...
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text/plain - BCCLS Listserv  It is an Italian grand opera in in the style of middle Verdi, Mercadante, and .... The Metropolitan Opera: Where Opera, for Good or Ill, Is Grand By BERNARD ...... to anyone else as they have never shared this information with me themselves. ...... in to unmask]</a>> Organization: Facilities And Services Subject: name artists I...
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The Threepenny Opera - Drama Online  Under the title The Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera has been performed ... There is no reason why John Gay's motto for his Beggar's Opera  nos haec ..... at which they are aiming goes wrong, and suddenly it all turns into a dirty joke.
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Magnificent Mozart | The Spectator  Dec 4, 2010 ... The subtitle of Mozart's Don Giovanni is 'Il dissoluto punito' (the rake punished), ... judgment they would see that Monteverdi's shocking opera, in which two ... His relationship with Leporello is even more brutal than usual, but...
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Opera 2 Flashcards | Quizlet  In an opera based on a fairy tale, this title girl gives the prince one of a pair of ..... "Esmeralda", an 1840s opera, is based on a work by this "Miserable" author.
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The Threepenny Opera - Wikipedia  The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from German dramatist Elisabeth Hauptmann's translation of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, with music by ... Songs from The Threepenny Opera have been widely covered and become...
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m - The University of Arizona Campus Repository  Puccini: The Old Maid and the Thief. Scene 1. 52. The Telephone. Excerpt. 53 .... Menotti: The Telephone. Excerpts. 210. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess. Act II - "It Ain't Necessarily So" . ..... evolvement of opera from its beginning in 1600 to the mid- .... The same is true of scenes which require unusual vocal dex .... Pitch Name in.
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Opera's Emotional Two-Step: A Close Look at the Double Aria  Lucia di Lammermoor is an opera about emotions and it can .... Ask your students to trybased on this one exampleto guess what the characteristics of...
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Welcome to A History of Western Music - 7th Edition  absolute music Music that is independent of words, drama, visual images, or any ... a cappella (Italian, "in chapel style") Manner of choral singing without ... air English or French song for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment, ... art music Music that is (or is meant to be) listened to with rapt attention, for its own sake.
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The Music of Tosca  Puccini was a composer who had an incredible gift for scene setting, or 'painting a ... A wonderful instance of this can be found in the prelude to Act III. ... We hear the first statement of the great tune from Act III of this opera, the tenor aria ... Here, in Scarpia's Baroque and sumptuous domestic environment, the brutal chords of...
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Let's Opera with (the incredibly classy) Vii Zafira! Il Trovatore ...  Feb 7, 2012 ... Off-Topic. ... Go figure. ... Literally, so Verdi got the not often seen chance of not only asking for ... when an opera goes into those long arias were a Soprano girl sings ... half of the second act, however, we will be going into new places no ... Ferrando and many of the Count's familiars rest near the door; some...
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Glossary for Music Appreciation  aria In opera or oratorio, a set piece, usually for a single performer, that expresses .... episode (1) In a fugue, a freer passage between full statements of the subject; ..... prelude An introductory piece (though Chopin and other nineteenth-century...
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Operas by Donizetti on DVD/Blu-ray/CD [Archive] - Opera Forum at ...  Bellini wrote I Puritani, while Donizetti wrote Marino Faliero; his ... Singing - obscure cast of mostly local Italian singers at the Bergamo ..... slightly different feel in acting style and visually different productions. ... than one recording with Netrebko) but in terms of beautiful singing, her level here is untouchable.