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Berlioz allowed text to dictate symphonic form in Roméo but allowed the music to supplant the text wordlessly. If, in the famous garden and cemetery scenes the dialogue of the two lovers, Juliet's asides, and Romeo's passionate outbursts are not sung, if the duets of love and despair are given to the orchestra, the reasons are numerous and ...
Grand rights is a type of music licensing, specifically covering the right to perform musical compositions within the context of a dramatic work. This includes stage performances such as musical theater , concert dance , and arrangements of music from a dramatic work.
The Italian word for "echo"; an effect in which a group of notes is repeated, usually more softly, and perhaps at a different octave, to create an echo effect égal (Fr.) Equal eilend (Ger.) Hurrying ein wenig (Ger.) A little einfach (Ger.) Simple emporté (Fr.) Fiery, impetuous en animant (Fr.) Becoming very lively en cédant (Fr.) Yielding en ...
Recitative (/ ˌ r ɛ s ɪ t ə ˈ t iː v /, also known by its Italian name recitativo ([retʃitaˈtiːvo]) is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech. Recitative does not repeat lines as formally composed songs do.
An oratorio (Italian pronunciation: [oraˈtɔːrjo]) is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble. [1]Similar to opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters (e.g. soloists), and arias.
Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – 29 February 1592) was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance.He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal comedy.
Another form of theatre music is incidental music, which, as in radio, film and television, is used to accompany the action or to separate the scenes of a play. The physical embodiment of the music is called a score , which includes the music and, if there are lyrics, it also shows the lyrics.
Dramatic, a voice type classification in European classical music, describing a specific vocal weight and range at the lower end of a given voice part; Dramatic soprano, a strong voice which can be heard over an orchestra; Dramatic, an album by Casiopea; The Dramatics, 1960s American soul music vocal group