MUSI 1001 Lecture 9: l9
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Used to express the character"s emotion that results from the preceding. The music is more passionate, expansive and tuneful than the recitative. Vocal melisma instead of rapid-fire delivery portion of the drama: fancy lines fireworks. Always accompanied by the basso continuo and part of all of the orchestra. Bring in good aria to other opera. A passage of vocal music is sung in a manner halfway between aria and. )t"s style is more faithful to the original concept of stile rappresentativo. Very similar in style to monody. that the aria or recitative. The first important opera in the history of western music. Based on the myth of orpheus and eurydice. Opera called work. shows in the performance. Dido"s lament (cid:498)when ) am laid in earth(cid:499) Begins with a recitative: chromatically descending vocal line, accompanied by the basso continuo (which also happens to be a ground bass or basso ostinato) Secular vocal genre for solo voice with instrumentl accompaniment.
