Mozart revision poster
Melody and vocal style
General info and context
established the classical style of music
Haydn and Beethoven were contempories
One of the first German operas
Singspiel style
Freemason movement
Tamino is the hero, and wants to marry the Queen of the Nights daughter Pamina. The magic flute helps Tamino prove he is worthy to marry Pamina. Papageno stars in the sub plot
accompanied recitative at the beginning, syllabic, free tempo
Word painting, shivering violins
coloratura soprano
larghetto is legato and begins in lyrical conjunct, wide ranging tessitura
Rising sequences
triadic passages
Shows off singers ability
Storytelling, clear narrative
Scared of the Queens power
Rhythm and metre
beginning- continuous repeated crotchet tonic pedal notes in the bass, with syncopated repeated quavers in the violins
Simple triple time section
demisemiquaver scalic passages in the strings
Shows anger
many passages of
continuous semiquavers
upper strings have tremolo-like passages of fast repeated semiquavers
use of triplets in the accompaniment
Tonality and harmony
Key of Bb major
mostly diatonic
Perfect cadences
Strengthen and confirm the key
Lots of chromaticism
Typical Mozart feature
simple tonic and dominant seventh harmonies
the larghetto middle section is in the relative minor key of G minor
diminished seventh harmonies,
Show moments of anguish
Texture
mainly simple melody-dominated homophony
Hm Hm Hm
simple diatonic phrases in B♭ major with repeated
notes and leaps
two-part counterpoint with Tamino
modulates to the dominant F major
Represents the 3 ladies
a three-part homophonic texture.
increases to five part
sotto voce
typical Classical feminine cadences