Mapeh Q4

• Art song


  Poetry set w/ music, commonly for trained voice and piano accompaniment
• German


  Lieder
• French


  Melodie
• Italian


  Canzion
• Spanish


  Cancion
• Components of an art song 


  poet, composer, singer, accompanist
• When did art song popularity peak?


  Early 19th century when romantic songwriters expanded on melodies
• Italian Term for “Opera”


  Opus, meaning a work.
• When was opera first used?

  End of 16th century
• Opera


  form of art where musicians and singers perform a dramatic work
• Libretto


  Text set to music for an opera
• BelCanto 


  “Singing beautifully” significant for its vocal ornaments and complex melodies
• Dialogue 


  Includes recitative and aria, and integrated choirs doing real convos
• verism


  realism, based on the realest stories, usually has a dramatic plot and tragic end
• Italian Opera


  Expressed nationalism and freedom, strongly influenced before German opera was founded
• French opera


  Naturalist, entertaining, and historical.
• Epicenter of European theater

  Paris
• German Opera


  composed of music, literature, acting, dancing, and painting
• Popularized Wagnerian Drama


  Richard Wagner
• Cantabile


  In a style of singing
• Capo


  Head from the beginning
• coda


  Closing part of a song/movement
• Dolce


  To sing/play in a sweet manner
• Falsetto


  Weak and airy voice, commonly in high register
• Glissando


  Sliding vastly between 2 notes
• Passagio


  Parts of the voice where register transition happens
• Rubato


  Slight change of tempo at the soloist discretion
• Tessitura


  Most comfortable voice range for a person when singing
• Vibratto


  Rapid and repetitive small patch changes of a sustained tone
• greek theater


  served as the means for people to express their religious beliefs
• inclusions of greek theater


  music, drama, dances
• production of great dramas

  athens in the 5th century bc
• famous writers of tragedies

  aeschylus, sophocles, euripides
• what were comedies used for


  to comment on and criticize the government and politicians
• Aristophanes


  a famous greek comedy play writer, wrote comedies of powerful women
• setting of greek plays


  performed outdoors during festivities honoring the god of harvest, hine, fertility, and theater
• Lysistrata


  famous ancient greek comedy written by aristophanes during the turn of the 4th century
• oedipus rex


  ancient greek tragedy written by sophocles, about a mom named oedipus, who was prophesied by an orode.
• shakespearean theater


  based on plays written by the english play writer and poet during the 16th century.
• the taming of the shrew


  lucineto cannot court blanca until her older sister katherina marries. petruccio marries katherina and tries to render her an obedient wife. at the end, katherina proves to be the most obedient wife.