Star Power: Opera and Musical Theatre

Divertissement

Divertissement

________ occured in the middle or end of each act and provided a non- plot- related excuse to show off costumes and choreo.

Watchet

________ auf- sacred concerto containing a series of variations on chorale.

Venice

________ was the primary centre for opera.

Hype

________- english people were trying to find their identity and the arts played heavily into shaping it.

Pietists

________- distrust formality and high art in worship.

Musical monopoly

________- everyone had to write like lully for 50 years after his death.

Orthodox

________ lutherans- using all available choral and instrumental music.

Purcell

________- similar to lully's structure, overture, homophonic choruses.

Scarlatti

________ wrote a ton of cantatas.

French language

________ required pace and flow adjustments that created different styles and practices.

Recitatif simple

________- followed the contour of spoken french while shifting the time to match it.

Masque

________- shared features with opera but included spoken parts and were long, collaborative spectacles, appealed to all levels of society.

Ground bass

________- continuo bassline plays the same thing over and over (early ancestor of ostinato)

Rise of semi opera

________- somewhere between theatre and opera.

Grand motet

________- soloists, double chorus and orchestra, different meters and temposengland.