Music 2701A/B Midterm: MH Midterm study notes - OPERA.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Music
• Course: Music 2701A/B
• Professor: Richard Semmens

Document Summary

Opera: encouraged the renaissance spirit of rebirth, most important and prominent early operas sported a forest of basso continuo, year 1600, and caccini and peri warred in a production of the earliest opera we know of (for a performance at court), for an important host and a marriage (the medici family), and the groom was king henry the ivth. opera was called euridice, opera: drama sung throughout involves staging, performers, characters, etc, versimilitude: truth to life. critics of opera used moral teaching stories with beautiful poetry, visual effects, and orchestrated music the first operas emerged in the 1590"s cultivation of opera was made that much easier due to dramatic singing, or a style based upon monody that allowed for rapid musical recitation of words (that could go by more or less at the same speed as a conversation. ) sported stile recitativo (recitive style) first repeatable" opera monteverdi"s l"orfeo, the earliest ritornellos were passages repeated without variation. e. g. in c.