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• art song - is a poetry set with music, commonly for trained voice and piani accompaniment, performed in recital
• German - leider
• French - melodie
• Italian - canzione
• Spanish - cancion
• 4 elements of art song - poet, singer, composer, accompanist
• Opera - means opus which means "a work"
• The opera is a form of arrt where musicians and singer perform a dramatic work merging the text called libretto
• The romantic period is the golden age of the opera
• bel canto - means "singing beautifully"
• dialogue - includes recitative (talking), aria (singing), and the perfectly integrated choirs doing real conversations in a story
• italian opera - it mainly expressed nationalism and freedom
• italian opera's composer was Verdi and Puccini
• french opera - naturalist, entertaining, and historical
• french opera composer was Bizet
• german opera - most significat composer was Wagner
• Contabile - in a style of singing
• capo - head from the start
• coda- the closing part of the song or movement
• dolce - to sing or play in a sweet manner
• falsetto - weak or airy voice
• glissandro - sliding fastly between two notes
• pasaggio - where register transition happens
• rubato - slight change of tempo
• tessitura - the most comfortable voice range of a person
• vibrato - rapid and repetitive small pitch change
• greek theater - represents the classical period
• shakespearean theater - represents renaissance period
• opera - represents romantic period
• the famous writers of tragedies - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
• tragedies - were based on myths and ancient heroes
• comedies - way to comment and criticize their government by means of jokes
• the famous greek comic playwright - Aristophanes
• lysistrata - was a famous ancient greek comedy written by Aristophanes
• orchestra - serves as the acting and dancing area
• semi circular theatron - is the auditorium of the viewing place
• skene - place to change costumes
• the ancient theater, theater of dionysus
• recreation - is an acticity that is intended for relaxation and enjoyment purposes
• different types of recreation - active, passive