Mozart Don Giovanni

Thursday, April 5, y

Music 111 W11D1

Classical

- Mozart Don Giovanni

- Singspiel

• ballad opera

• singing and words

- Don Giovanni

• serious topics placed into comedy

- Aria

- Fast patter quality

- simple 2-part form

- accents on different words

• every language expresses different parts of a name or word

- able to carry voice using syllabic

- Mozart

• the Requiem

• for specific mass

- mass for the dead

• always pumping out music Thursday, April 5, y • as it became more popular it came to concert hall

• dies in the middle of writing his Requiem

• low brass and organ

• 13 century latin poem

• vision of judgment day

• Chapter 29

- page 185

- rhyme latin poem 6 verses

- Verse 1: full chorus and orchestra homophonic

- verse 2: chorus and orchestra polyphonic

- verse 3: trombone solo bass solo

• a. Tuba mirum (trumpet with astonishing sound)

- v.4: tenor solo homophonic orchestra

- v.5: tener solo continues

- v.6: alto solo w/ orchestra

- v.7: soprano solo w/ orchestra last line repeated all soloists

- v.8: full chorus setting, dramatic

- Erra differences

• what makes what what?

• ***Pg 187 in the book ***

• Bethoven

- classical and romantic

- 21 when Mozart died Thursday, April 5, y • Classical

- all equal tons of rules

- church and aristocracy

• Romantic

- stretch the song out

- a lot of stuff outside of church and aristocracy

- Nineteenth Century

• tons of history in this time erra

- music effects the world around them

• American and French revolutions

• American revolution cause French revolution

• Poe, Bronté, Dumas, Hawthorne, Peace and War

- England is on the literary map

• rise of individualism

• Industrial revolution

- new technology for instruments

• bass gets valves

- instruments cheeper

- cast iron frame on piano thicker strings

- new noises

- more people in the orchestra

- concert halls

- exotic music from natives around the world Thursday, April 5, y - Passion and individualism

• memorable melodies

• make instruments sing

• sharps and flats

• rise of the “rock star”

- soloist that plays and get played for gigs

- hardest possible symphonies crafted

- idolized

- project

• each person has a role

• play style

• bring opera into 3-5 minutes

• can be funny and saucy

• hit all of the major points

• opera in a nut shell

• each act gets its own bit