MUS 160A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Quinault People, Ercole Amante, Francesco Cavalli
Document Summary
Intro of lully and quinault"s armide, 1686: stately by rhythms, sounds nationalistic/militaristic like a march, involves horns, louis xiv ruled during this time, dotted rhythms make it a french overture, goal was to make those notes as short as possible, very typical of french overtures act ii scene 5- efine il est en ma puissance, introduced by a prelude, wind machine used symbolizes a storm and her power, dramatic monologue in typical french style, recite is similar to italian style in terms of no clear meter/more narrative, harmonic motions don"t happen quickly, france is ahead with orchestral accompaniment, shifting between meters is typical to this spoken style, lully is natively italian, music needs to be flexible because of changing lengths of lines in poetry, lully understood making the words sung natural but lyrical, french opera is more contextualized with its history.
