MAPEH MUSIC REVIWER

• COMPOSERS: Franz Peter Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet
• Franz Peter Schubert - an Austrian composer of the late classical and romantic era
• Giacomo Puccini - he belonged to a group of composers who stressed realism
• Richard Wagner - he was very much inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Georges Bizet dies at the age of 36
• Richard Wagner - a German composer, theatre director, polemist, and a conductor chiefly known for his operas for mature work and known as a music drama
• Giuseppe Verdi - is an Italian composer best known for his operas
• Giuseppe Verdi famous works are: La Traviata, Otello, Rigoletto, and Aida
• Giacomo Puccini - was born in a poor family
• Franz Peter Shubert was tapped by the poetry writes like Johann Goethe
• Proper name for Schubert is lieder which is a German word for songs he created lieder so they had a powerful dramatic impact on listeners or audience
• Georges Bizet famous work is Carmen
• Wagner developed a compositional style in which the orquestral with equal importance in dramatic roles as the signs of themselves . The is aided by the use of leifmotifs or musical consequences for particular character or plot element
• Bizet - he entered the Paris conservetory at a young age
• Schubert works are Gretchen am Spinnrade, and Erlkonig
• Verdi - insisted on good-libretto and wrote political overtones and middle-class audience
• Puccini - he drew material form everyday life, rejecting heroic themes from mythology and history
• Verdi famous work was La Traviata
• Verdi - his characters are ordinary people not those in royal family like in Germany
• Verdi - all of his work are serios love story with an unahappy ending
• Bizet registered name was Alexandre Cesar Leopold Bizet
• Aria - is an air solo part of singing sung by principal character
• MALE OPERA VOICES : Tenor, Baritone, Bass
• A acapella - one or more singers without an instrumental accompaniment
• Dolce - singing sweetly or sweet voice
• Soprano- Highest singing voice
• Recitative - declematory singing, used in prose parts and dialogue of an opera
• Baritone - common male voice
• Vibratto - rapidly repeated slight pitch
• Scene - setting or place
• Falsetto - a weak and more airy voice
• Bass - lowest male voice
• Mezzo- Soprano is the most common female voice
• Capo - head or the beginning
• Libretto - the text of an opera, usually written by the composer and librettist
• Dramatic - darker full sound
• Contralto - lowest female voice and most unique
• Tessiture - most comfortable singing range of a singer
• Rubalto - slight speeding up or slowing down the tempo
• Acts - main division of an opera