MUS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lyric Soprano, Castrato, Melisma
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Camerata: a group of nobles, poets, and musicians. Camerate met in florence, italy to consider how to revive the practice that the. This meeting developed the opera, a drama that is communicated entirely through singing, rather than speech. Operas involve many different art forms: music, poetry, dancing, and visual arts. Made up of one to five acts, subdivided into scenes. It wasn"t long before the first public opera houses were built and opera became a big money making venture. Virtuoso: highly skilled singers began being in high demand. The plot of most early baroque operas come from greek mythology or history. People in an opera (can be hundreds): composer: writes the music, librettist: writes the text. Some operas started in italy, many early operas are written in. Historical development that affected music in the baroque era. Baroque era music is divided into 3 periods: early, middle, and late.
