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| Opera with a serious or tragic theme |
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| comic opera- with a strong base character |
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| Usually performed with a harpsichord, Scaled back version because they were not using the piano. |
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| Multimovement work for solo instrument and orchestra. Normally 3 movements: Fast-Slow-Fast |
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1. First movement: Allegro
Sonata form, with double exposition
Exposition: Themes 1 and 2-orchestra
Themes 1 and 2-solo instrument
Development
Recapitulation
Cadenza: Solo instrument alone
Coda
2. Second movement: Slow, lyrical
A-B-A from common
3. Third Movement: Very fast
Sonata or rondo forms popular |
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| That section of a composition in sonata form and its variants in which the themes, or some of them, presented in the exposition are repeated, more or less in their original form |
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| Orig. a section of a movement added at the end to clinch matters rather than to develop the mus. further. However, in the syms. of Mozart, Haydn, and especially Beethoven, the coda came to have integral formal significance, becoming at times 2nd development section and sometimes containing new material. Later composers have increased and extended this tendency. |
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| Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert |
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| Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Strauss |
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| "little book"- the words sung in the opera- the written story |
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| Trousers Role(e.g. Cherubino) |
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| woman sings the mans part in the opera. The example he gave was Cherubino in "The Marriage of Figaro". A woman typically sung the boys part in the opera. |
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