MUSI 3380 Lecture Notes - Le Devin Du Village, Da Capo Aria, Jean-Philippe Rameau
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1752 big french debate: musical taste, nationalism. Picking sides was more than musical tastes; it was political, personal and classes within society. Comic opera is important people tired of serious heroes and gods. Vaudeville : parody of the opera: popular tunes set to different words, shows put on independently. Eventually vaudeville became op ra comique: italian musical style. Lack of counterpoint a feature: p. 494 merits of italian opera. Interm de: existed before intermezzo long history not always light and funny between opera and comic opera. 1752 independent from comic opera, in reference to italian comic opera. Italian style: simple harmonies in a section, phrases get longer b section. Interm de: air: italian aria but less complex, lighter, simpler. 1 theme: simple da capo aria, recitative in the middle but finishes with a statement of section a again. Result of publicity: italian style gets into french style. Serious opera starts to get injected into comic opera (mozart)
