MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Libretto, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Figured Bass
15 May 2012
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Must know the names of mozart"s 3 famous operas (in english): don giovanni, the. Don giovanni is an opera buffa, an italian genre of opera (the most important and famous operas were italian at the time) Picture in notes: haydn at the keyboard, conducting. This is where the conductor would have been, and he would have been playing in the continuo group who would accompany the recitatives. So the composer would be playing keyboard, part of the continuo group, and the first violinist would be in charge of the rest of the orchestra. It is only now that the conductor is not in the ensemble. At that time, the conductor was part of the orchestra, and sometimes the composer as well. Opera was the most important musical genre in the 18th century.
