MUSIC 300 Chapter 7: Humanism and the Birth of Opera
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Chapter 7: humanism and the birth of opera. The birth of opera was the start of what we now know as the baroque. Challenged the legitimacy of the ars perfecta. The only way of restoring the ethical and expressive powers of music is to strip the counterpoint and return to an art founded on the imitation of nature. Music could be an art of persuasion. (cid:862)are there a(cid:374)(cid:455) real stru(cid:272)tural (cid:272)orrespo(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:373)usi(cid:272) a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ature? (cid:863) Prima prattica- the style of palestrina; stelio antiquo (old style) The old st(cid:455)le (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t e(cid:454)press e(cid:373)otio(cid:374) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it is pol(cid:455)pho(cid:374)i(cid:272). Mu(cid:272)h of the new style is actually subtracting inner voices. Whe(cid:374) (cid:373)usi(cid:272)ia(cid:374)s go to the theater the(cid:455) should (cid:862)o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)e i(cid:374) (cid:449)hat (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:374)er the actors speak, in what range, high or low, how loudly or softly, how rapidl(cid:455) or slo(cid:449)l(cid:455) (cid:863) ~galilei. Solo singing over a basso continuo became extremely prominent. At the turn of the century, certain musical practices emerged.
