MUSC 1220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Il Rapimento Di Cefalo, Le Nuove Musiche, Teatro San Cassiano
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Claudio monteverdi"s opera l"orfeo is premiered at the ducal palace of mantua. The first public opera house, teatro san cassiano, opens in venice allowing musical theater to be presented for and attended by a paying public with operas being performed in carnival season. Aria (italian air ) in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, any section of an italian strophic poem, for a solo singer. Lyrical monologue in an opera or other vocal work such as cantata and oratorio. At the time of le nuove musiche, referred to any written setting or improvised oral performance of strophic poetry. Chwm 190-191, 195-197, 199, 205-206, 210, 216. Style of vocal writing that approaches the lyricism of an aria but is freer in form. Often serves as a transition between recitatives and arias. Composer would write only the melody and bass, leaving it to the performers to fill in the appropriate chords or inner parts.
