Vocabulary - Carmen - p. 104 Flashcards
Provide the definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.
opera
Opera is a drama that is sung and combines vocal and instrument music with drama, visual arts and often dance. It started in the Baroque era.
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.
What is a drama that is sung and combines vocal and instrument music with drama, visual arts and often dance. It started in the Baroque era.
opera
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
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Exoticism in music
Exoticism in music is an important Romantic era musical style in which composers express their fascination with foreign lands and cultures using different melody, rhythm, harmony, and orchestration
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
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What is the Romantic era musical style in which composers express their fascination with foreign lands and cultures using different melody, rhythm, harmony, and orchestration.
Exoticism in music
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
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Libretto
Libretto is the text of an opera, oratorio, or cantata and it is usually written by someone other than the composer.
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
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What is the text of an opera, oratorio, or cantata and it is usually written by someone other than the composer?
Libretto
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
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Aria
Aria is Italian for ‘air’. It is a solo song with accompaniment, heard in an opera, oratorio, or cantata. It is highly emotional, often virtuosic and reveals the character’s intimate emotions.
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.
What is the Italian for “air”, a solo song with accompaniment, heard in an opera, oratorio, or cantata. It is highly emotional, often virtuosic and reveals the character’s intimate emotions?
Aria
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
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Recitative
Recitative is a half-singing, half-talking way of singing in operas, oratorios, and cantatas that follows the sounds of the texts and tells the plot.
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.
What is a half-singing, half-talking way of singing in operas, oratorios, and cantatas that follows the sounds of the texts and tells the plot?
Recitative
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
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Ostinato
Ostinato is a rhythmic or melodic pattern repeated for an extended period.
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet (the habanera rhythm)
Spring, Violin concerto, Vivaldi (the dog barking in the third movement)
Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.
What is is a rhythmic or melodic pattern repeated for an extended period?
Ostinato
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet (the habanera rhythm)
Spring, Violin concerto, Vivaldi (the dog barking in the third movement)
Provide the definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.
Habanera
Habanera is a Cuban dance-song with a rhythmic motive that is often used as an ostinato.
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.
What is is a Cuban dance-song with a rhythmic motive that is often used as an ostinato?
Habanera
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet
