MUSC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 47-49: Giacomo Puccini, Romantic Music, Claude Debussy
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Late romantic ideals were carried into the post-romantic era both through the italian operatic tradition as witnessed in puccini and by german composers strauss and mahler, both of whom were noted for their orchestral writing. Puccini borrowed the technique of leitmotifs from wagner in his madame. In order to marry her american love, cio-cio-san, in puccini"s madame. The nineteenth-century trend towards evoking a culture outside the composer"s in opera was known as exoticism. The opera madame butterfly is set in japan. Mahler, strauss and puccini were post romantic composers. Japan"s two hundred years of isolation ended when the us navy arrived in. The nineteenth-century trend towards realism in opera was known as verismo. Puccini"s opera madame butterfly focuses on the heroine, a former geisha. Feure favored the following forms for his compositions. Songs, piano miniatures, chamber music, and not all secular. Faure chose latin as the language for the text for his requiem.
