Music 2710F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Recitative, Oratorio, Aria
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If you pay too much attention to the text, the music will be overlooked. Orpheus and euridice myth: from ovid"s metamorphoses (book x, xi, orpheus: musician, poet, singer, he is not a god. Monteverdi"s orfeo (1607: librettist: alessandro striggio (son of composer, balance between recitative and aria, 40 instruments. Instruments used to create appropriate feelings for scenes/emotions. Premier: vincenzo gonzaga (monteverdi"s employer) goes to see puri"s euridice in 1600 in florence (at a wedding, wants his musician (monteverdi) to do something familiar, premier feb 24, 1607. "the music, observing due propriety, serves the poetry so well that nothing more beautiful is to be heard anywhere" (cherubino ferrari: observing due propriety: what is appropriate. Roman opera: themes more biblical in nature, these will become "oratorio", but not yet, special rules for opera in papal states (i. e. , no women on stage, etc. )
