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Opera
- Opera Seria: from the Baroque of more serious opera
- Had divas and da capo arias and bells and whistles
- Opera Buffa: derived from the intermezzos or comic relief between acts of the opera seria
- Mozart took this new popular buffa style and ran with it
- Characters are deeper, melodies are constrained, greater focus on relation between the text and music
- Not as much recitative
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmusbSc5mFg
Opera
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- Intro
- Yay, More Opera!
- Where’s the Buffa?
- Where's the Buffa?
- Emphasis on the Bass Voice
- Unexpected Accents
- Quick Tempos
- Wide Leaps
- Frequent Use of Vocal Ensemble
- Example: Pergolesi's La Serva de Padrona (1733)
- Became So Popular, The Intermezzo Toured On Its Own
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Child Prodigy Gone Bad
- Composed In All Forms and All Genres
- Redefined Opera Buffa As Its Own Category
- The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni
- Example: The Marriage of Figaro
- Simpler Melodies
- Formulaic Structures
- Emphasis on the Connection of Voice and Text
- Stories Never Stalled
- Replaced Stock Characters with More Psychologically In-Depth Characters
- Review





























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