Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - Johann Adam Hiller, Staccato, Parataxis
5 Feb 2013
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Italian comic opera style received with pleasure by audiences. It gave musical expression to many of the new attitudes of the enlightenment. 1710: the rise of italian comic opera begins (starts the classical era) The aesthetic "expression" that arose during the age of sensibility and sturm und drang treated the composer as a "subject" voicing his own thoughts . 18th century no longer an artisan expressing, but they are doing their own personal expression. Comic opera is not precisely the best school for singers; but it has become the best for today"s sonatas all, nowadays, borrow something its style. People were aware that modern instrumental style borrowed from comic opera style. Intermezzo: a short comic opera performed between the acts of a longer, serious one. Comic opera begins as this and develops. Moments of reflection in comic opera psychological character in the music which breaks the music into thoughts of the character.
