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Unit 6: Music and Death (LG (11: Dido and Aeneas- Purcell (baroque period…

- - - - principal components of the opera
        
        solo arias: released tension through melody
        
        recitatives: the plot and action are advanced
        
        choruses
        
        orchestral overture: heard at the beginning, introduces melody
        
        sinfonias: heard in between scenes
      - liberatto: the text of an opera, gives the composer opportunity to write for diverse numbers
  - - - first performed at girl's school in London
      - hornpipe: begins the act, sprightly tune, dance form often associated with sailors, characterized by Scotch Snap
      - Scotch snap: short-long rhythm, reversed dotted figure
      - ground bass: Dido's Lament, repeated phrase that descends along the chromatic scale, symbolic of grief in Baroque music
- - - - orchestra included more instruments
    - - Mozart finished this
      - Day of Wrath for the Funeral Mass (Requiem)
      - emphasizes power of devine intervention
      - choral opening then solo verse and choral finish
      - accented in duple meter
      - harsh combo of major and minor
      - homophonic
      - 8 verses-word painting
- - - - absolute/pure music
        
        consists of musical patterns that are designed without intended literacy or pictorial meanings (Beethovens 5th)
      - musicians became sharply conscious of the connection between art and the world around them
  - - - thematic transformation
        
        serves as the huge, expanisve form of Berlioz symphony
  - - - King Lear overture, choral music, 3 operas
- - - - musical ability from early age
      - fame as composer grew during the 1890s
      - composition teacher at his alma mater
      - influential as a critid, growing deafness caused resignation
      - Requiem Mass most performed work
- - - - composed as a work for baritone and organ
      - melody with accompaniment (homophony)
      - baritone + small ensemble beginning
      - ABA', ternary
      - baritone solo, SATB chorus,
  - - - orchestral tone poem with a subtext of personal grief
      - evocative imagery to help understand goals
      - muted bells, muted lower strings, accompanying flute melody
      - no strong sense of key center