MUS111H1 Lecture Notes - Minor Scale, Jean-Philippe Rameau, John Blow
Document Summary
Texture: basso continuo (underlies all music) figured bass: dynamics: consistent terraced , harmony: functional major/minor! Chord standardization: melody: complex (fortspinnung sequencing) Early opera: drama in music (combination of arts) Earliest operas: jacopo peri, dafne (florence 1597) mythological subjects. Libretto /librettist - the operatic text (little book) Based on mythological plots :orpheus myth most prominent early subject matter. Sustained chordal accompaniment, irregular rhythms: arioso: brief moments of full melodic song, aria: full song a soliloquy (internal thoughts) L"incoronazione de poppea (1642): public opera in venice new historical plot! L"incoronazione de poppea (1642) venice - libretto by busenello - 1st public opera emphasis on human characters and emotions (vs. myth of orfeo) familiar historical subject less use of chorus importance of machinery stage spectacle blurring of sections. Strophic arias, ground bass arias: monodic style w/ basso continuo. Cantata to be sung -aria and recit, dramatic text- solo voice. 5 operas the 1st to be staged outside italy!
