VPMA93H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Swing Era, Recitative, Character Piece
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Text set to more lyrical music in a less natural style. Used for moments where characters are reflecting on events in the opera (similar to a soliloquy). In french opera, the style was of airs was kept elegant and simple. In italian, arias were moments of vocal pyrotechnics where the singers could show off their abilities. A section of text set to music in a more natural declamatory style. Usually employed when the text is moving the plot along. A short work, whose action may be only tenuously connected to the main plot of an opera, featuring dancing and spectacular choruses with lots of costumes. A means of incorporating the ballet tradition into opera. Belief that the future of art lay in dramas which would incorporate into itself many separate arts, such as poetry, music, painting, staging, acting. Leitmotiv: theme or motive which is connected with a particular emotion, character, thing or event.
