VOCAL MUSIC OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

• became an important source of musical expressions

  becameee increasingly popular during the romantic period

  Opera
• > Composers interpret poems, mood, atmosphere and

  imagerp into music.

  > Romantic artists found inspiration in landscapes.

  > their subjects were traditional myths, legends and

  folklore usually dealing with the supernatural.

  grotesque, and less ordinary.

  > Vocal music in this period require singers to perform a

  greater range of tone colon dynamics and pitch.


  VOCAL MUSIC OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
• • became increasingly popular during the Romantic period. • it is a story (libretto) told by the composers through music while using the words of the librettist. They work closely together to tell the story. • The book that the composer and librettist put together is called a score. • The score has all the musical notes. words and ideas to help the performers tell the story


  opera
• the texts of an opera.

  • Librettist and the composer work closely together to tell the story.

  Libretto
• the book that the composer and librettist put together. has all the musical notes, words and ideas to help the performers tell the story.

  •often. there are operas with overtures, preludes. prologues. several acts, finales and postludes.

  Score
• Declamatory singing. used in the prose parts and dialogue of opera. Different roles in operas are created taking into account different types of voices. Each role requires a different type of singer. not only able to sing a given vocal range but also with certain voice characteristics, color and power.


  Recitative
• Declamatory singing. used in the prose parts and dialogue of opera. Different roles in operas are created taking into account different types, of voices. Each role requires a different type of singer. not only able to sing a given vocal range but also with certain voice characteristics, color and power.

  »an air or solo singing part that the public will remember best when leaving the opera house.

  Properly and well sung. a beautiful aria can bring an audience to its feet and decide the fate of an entire opera.

  Aria
• Main division of an opera

  Acts
• Setting or place


  Scene
• • Duet, trio, and other small ensemble

  • Chorus

  • Orchestra


  other COMPONENTS:
• highest male voice

  tenor
• Middle male voice, lies between Bass and Tenor voices. it is the common male voice.


  Baritone
• lowest male voice

  Bass
• highest female voice

  Soprano
• most common female voicê. strong middle voice, tone is darker or deeper than the soprano

  Mezzo soprano
• lowest female voice and most unique among female


  Contralto
• one or more singers performing without instrumental accompaniment

  A Capella
• singing style

  Cantabille
• head, the beginning

  Capo
• Closing section appended to a movement or song


  Coda
• sweetly

  dolce
• weaker and more airy voice usually in the higher pitch ranges

  Falsetto
• • Parts of singing voice where register transition occur


  Passagio
• Slight speeding up or slowing down of the tempo of a piece at the discretion of the soloist

  Rubato
• ≥ Most comfortable singing range of a singer

  Tessitura
• Rapidly repeated slight pitch variation during a sustained note

  Vibrato