Music 1a Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Musical Theatre, Courtly Love, Recitative
17 Mar 2016
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Lecture 13: missed a lot here, french opera. Jean-baptiste lully: lully"s conducting, admired and imitated across france and german-speaking lands for: His conducting style beating time on the floor with a long cane. His method of scoring : 24 violins. Composed music that was pompous and gracious. Projected the highly formal splendor of the french royal court. First: homophonic, slow, and majestic, persistent dotted rhythms (rhythms become uneven, you know what dotted is from your own music experience) Native genres were more successful than opera: masques. Court entertainment that shared many aspects of opera. More like lengthy spectacles akin to french court ballets. Dances, instrumental music, songs: mixed genres: the first english operas . Mixed elements of spoken drama with masque. French opera failed n england in the 1670s. English traditions: wrote music for the theater, write music for theater. Music consisted of songs, choruses, dances, instrumental interludes: his one true opera was dido and aeneas (1689)
