Romantic

• Libretto is a text of an opera
• Librettist writes the story along with composer
• Score is a book taht the composer and librettist put together
• Overture is an Instrumental composition which serves as an introduction to the Opera.
• Acts is main divisions of an opera
• Recitative is a style of singing ordinary talking being sung
• Aria is an air or solo singing by a principal character
• Vocal rages is a measure of breadth of pitches
• Tenor is highest male voice
• Baritone is middle male voice
• Bass if lowest male voice
• Soprano is highest female voice
• Alto is lowest and most unique female voice
• Coloratura is highest soprano
• Lyric is bright and full sound
• Drama is darker full sound
• Mezzo is strong middle voice
• Franz Schubert his love of poetry led him to art song
• Franz Schubert is the earlist master romantic art song
• Art song is the most important form in the Romantic Period
• Art Song shows the intimate fusion of poetry and music
• Art Song is a compositon for voice and piano
• Art Song its accompaniment as an integral part of the composition.
• Guissepe Verdi he studied in Busseto and later went to Milan where his first opera “Oberto” was performed in La Scala, the most important opera house at that time.
• Guissepe Veridi almost all of his works are serious love stories with unhappy endings.
• Giussepe Verdi his famous and acclaimed opera works are: “La Traviata” and “Rigoletto” and “Aida”(Aida’s March).
• Aida she falls in love with General Radames who has been chosen to lead a war with Ethiopia, and the opera follows the conflict of Aida's love for the General and her country.
• Aida a political drama centered around power struggles and jealousies; tells the tale of an Ethiopian princess who has been kidnapped in Egypt
• The Erlking 1815 one of the earliest and finest examples of musical romanticism
• Franz Schubert he is best known as a composer of German
• Giacomo Puccini he belonged to a group of composers who stressed realism, therefore, he drew material from everyday life, rejecting heroic themes from mythology and history.
• La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini Four struggling bohemians – a poet(Rodolfo), a painter (Marcello), a musician (Shaunard) and a philosopher are living together in Paris, when one freezing Christmas Eve their lives are changed forever.
• Madame Butterly by Giacomo Puccini a tragic tale of Cio Cio San, a young Japanese girl who falls in love with American naval officer Pinkerton, with devastating consequences.
• Franz Schubert composed Lieder
• Franz Schubert composed Unfinished Symphony
• Giacomo puccini composed TURANDOT
• Carmen by Georges Bizet tells the story of a hopeless soldier, Don José, who is seduced by Carmen, a fiery gypsy woman with an appetite for smuggling. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart and turning his back on his military career, the opera follows José in his pursuit of Carmen's attention.
• George Bizet His famous opera is “Carmen”. However when “Carmen” first opened in Paris
• Richard Wagner his famous work is “Tristan and Isolde”
• Richard Wagner his work later influence modern film scores