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Unit 6: Music & Death (Purcell & Early Opera (Henry Purcell (1659…

- - - - His last large scale composition
      - He died before finishing it
        
        Completed by a student, Sussmayr
  - - - Orchestra included more instruments- bassoon and basset horn
      - Voices and instruments arrangement have dramatic effect
    - - JFK Funeral
      - 9/11 Commermorations
- - - - involves vocal and instrumental music, poetry, acting, scenery, and costumes
    - - text or script of opera
  - - - sets mood
      - overture (introduction)
      - sinfonias (interludes between scenes)
    - - speech - like singing
      - moves plot along
    - - emotional
      - no action is taken - frozen in time
      - sung outside of the opera (concert/recital settings)
    - - chorus (duos, trios, quartets)
      - back up solo voices
      - commentary on plot
  - - - lavish spectacles
      - Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607)
    - - widespread entertainment
      - not mythology stories about love triangles and historical figures
      - Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea (1643)
  - - - popular among aristocracy
      - combined vocal and instrumentals music with poetry and dance
    - - stage plays forbidden; were considered of the devil
      - plays set to music could be passed off as a concert though
        
        this is the tradition behind England's First Operas
- - - - Aeneas shipwrecked on Island of Carthage
      - Aeneas and Dido fall in love
      - Witch tricks Aeneas and calls into battle
      - Aeneas leaves and Dido dies of a broken heart
- - - - Grand orchestra music and operas- Berlioz and Wagner
      - Pianists in salons and concert halls- Chopin
      - Art song (Melodie) Seperate from German Lied
      - Sacred music
        
        Faure's early career grounded in playing and composing music for the Catholic Church
  - - - In direct contrast to German Romanicism
      - Example: Pavane
  - - - Freely edited Latin Liturgical texts
      - Smaller chamber orchestra
      - 7 movements
- - - - Goethe, Lord Byron, and Shakespeare