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Musc103-Chap 20+
Chap 20-23
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bel canto | (Italian for “beautiful singing”) a style of singing and a type of Italian opera developed in the nineteenth century that features the beautiful tone and brilliant technique of the human voice |
| Prima donna | (Italian for “first lady”) the leading female singer in an opera |
| Diva | (Italian for “goddess”) a celebrated female opera singer; a prima donna |
| Recitativo accompagnato | a recitative accompanied by the orchestra instead of merely the harpsichord; the opposite of simple, or secco, recitative |
| Cabaletta | the concluding fast aria of any two- or three-section operatic scene; a useful mechanism to get the principals off the stage |
| Ring cycle | a cycle of four interconnected music dramas by Richard Wagner that collectively tell the tale of the Germanic legend Der Ring des Nibelungen |
| Bayreuth Festival | still controlled today by the descendants of Wagner, a festival that continues to stage annually the music dramas of Wagner—and only Wagner—at the Bayreuth Festival Theater, an opera house built especially for that purpose |
| Music drama | a term used for the mature operas of Richard Wagner |
| Gesamtkunstwerk | (German for “total art work”) an art form that involves music, poetry, drama, mime, dance, and scenic design; often used in reference to Richard Wagner’s music dramas |
| Endless melody | a nonstop stream of solo singing and declamation that goes through an entire act of a Wagnerian music drama |
| Leitmotif | a brief, distinctive unit of music designed to represent a character, object, or idea; a term applied to the motives in the music dramas of Richard Wagner |
| Realistic opera | a general term for those operas of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that deal with everyday, gritty subjects; includes Italian verismo opera |
| Flamenco | a genre of Spanish song and dance, with guitar accompaniment, that originated in southernmost Spain and exhibits non-Western, possibly Arab-influenced, scales |
| Habanera | (Spanish for “the thing from Havana”) an Afro-Cuban dance song that came to prominence in the nineteenth century, marked by a repeating bass and a repeating, syncopated rhythm |
| Verismo opera | “realism” opera; the Italian term for a type of late-nineteenth-century opera in which the subject matter concerns the unpleasant realities of everyday life |
| Double stops | a technique applied to string instruments in which two strings instead of just one are pressed down and played simultaneously |
| Orchestral song (or orchestral Lied) | a genre of music emerging in the nineteenth century in which the voice is accompanied not merely by a piano but by a full orchestra |
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