MUS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Opera Buffa, Aria, Rondo
4 Apr 2016
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Popular entertainment: special efects, singing, acing, costumes, famous singers, saire, poliical criicism: opera was censored by the gov. Libreist shapes the opera structure the person who writes the text (libreto) aka the poet: he/she determines who will have an aria, a chorus, solo, etc. Singspiel: an opera with spoken dialogue: is a german naional art form, but then actors tried to do it and is wasn"t very good, abducion from the seraglio (1782) and magic flute (1791) Mozarts was not really funny but more joyful, he didn"t call it comic operas. Mozart never got a patron ater the archbishop: patron: a person who give you inancial security so you can be creaively free to create music, constanze: trained singer and mozart"s wife. Her sisters were also trained singers: aloysia and josepha. Only the two had careers, not constanze: he was the irst professional pianist.
