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comic opera from 1700, not about gods or heroes, and featuring characters from different social classes haydn and mozart has ensembles buffo characters buffo patter |
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based on story of great lover and libertine don juan 'dark comedy'; niether wholly dramatic or comedic |
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| Mozarts way of writing opera |
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opera buffa ensembles are very key to drama many characters, with different social classes action happens in ensembles |
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piece in opera where there are more than one singer help move along the drama setiments are presented more quickly and vividly dont have to wait for entire aria for feeling to be shown made opera much more dramatic |
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| purely comedic character, ususally of lower social class |
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| style of singing in opera buffo, short, quick notes with one syllable per note |
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wagners name for his version of opera encompassed poetry, art, drama, philosophy |
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| Wagners method of writing an opera |
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orchestra equals all drama leitmotif endless melody,music is accompanying all throuhout the whole opera plot and dialogue have orchestra playing |
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sequence of 4 operas that make up a music drama, composed by wagner the valkyrie: the second of the four |
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| wagners idea about how an opera encompasses all arts, distinction for him between his music drama and opera |
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dramatic- emotional themes that make up wagners music dramas guiding motive: associatd with person, thing, symbol in opera and are reoccuring, guide listener through the opera |
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| wagners term for method of creating long stretches of un resolving music throughout opera, and leitmotives |
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system of harmony in which one pitch or group of pitches is heard more than others cenral tonal chord, key throughout homing toward a central pitch |
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no sense of central pitch or harmony, no tonal center can be heard dissonant |
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wagner famous chord, signifies lack of resolution |
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| emancipation of dissonance |
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schoenberg idea that bad sounding dissonace are gradually accepted over time and making music more dissonant then wont need resolution and that resolution would be a slightly less dissonant sounding piece |
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leading expressionist in music, breakdown of tonality sprechstimme night moonfleck |
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schoenberg, berg, webern based on serial 12 note chromatic scale atonal music |
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kind of declaration half way between singing and speaking night and moonfleck schoenberg |
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funeral march romantic nostalgia symphony is entire world frere jacuqes, march dance trio march |
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impressionist music flashes of tone color focused on shades of sound sonority, parallel chords no functional harmony-but is tonal lack of tune, tonality is clouded |
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there are audible rles about how harmonies relate to eachother debusy doesnt focus on these but focuses on quality of sound of the pieece and each instrument |
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all voices move in parellel, building on identical chord on a successin of different pitches texture: overlapping, between strings and winds |
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| focus on quality of sound rather than functional harmonies |
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his opera, he was a student of schoenbergs at 2nd viennese school expressionism |
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| serial, 12 note composition |
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based on schoenbergs style of composition 12 note chromatic scale based on sets |
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| traditional melodies and words passed from generation to gen by oral tradition |
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ballets, ballet russe rite of spring-3rd composition based on rhythm, movement and dance, wild unrestrained dissonance provacative |
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stravinsky, violent and dissonant caused riot almost was so provacative on stage and violent |
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music for strings, percussion, and celesta hungarian folk music, earthy dissonant feel nationalist |
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rockstrewn hills polytonal marching bands, hymns, ragtime american nationalism, primitivist |
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use of several tonal systmes and keys at once ives: uses all very tonal music, puts them togethers sound slightly atonal, but polytonal |
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pictures at an exhibition russian nationalist wanted to bring russian painting to music paintings by hartmann |
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Aida:romantic, love triangle very focused on human voice orchestra part of his operas, not vey strong in duets and arias dramatic-orchestra moves singers along and plot |
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