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Drexel 3976, also known as The Rare Theatrical (based on an inscription from a former owner), is a 17th-century music manuscript compilation of works by the composer Matthew Locke, considered by some to be "the father of all Restoration dramatic music."
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 ...
It is a key moment demanding fervor and spectacle from the music. Satie's piece, with the performance direction calme et doux (calm and soft), willfully ignores all the dramatic elements of Péladan’s text in favor of harmonic experiments previously explored in his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. The melody of the vocal line is based on the ...
By the end of the 19th century, the term melodrama had nearly exclusively narrowed down to a specific genre of salon entertainment: more or less rhythmically spoken words (often poetry) – not sung, sometimes more or less enacted, at least with some dramatic structure or plot – synchronized to the accompaniment of music (usually piano).
Manfred: Dramatic Poem with Music in Three Parts (Opus 115) (German: Manfred. Dramatisches Gedicht in drei Abtheilungen ) is a work of incidental music by Robert Schumann . The work is based on the 1817 poem Manfred by Lord Byron and consists of an overture , and 15 pieces of music: an entracte , melodramas , and several solos and choruses .
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.
Jaroslav Doubrava (April 25, 1909 in Chrudim – October 2, 1960 in Prague) [1] was a Czech composer, painter, and pedagogue.. He studied in the Prague Conservatory with Otakar Jeremiáš.
Handel wrote church music for performance at Cannons, the Chandos Te Deum and the Chandos Anthems (settings of texts from the psalms for use in the Anglican liturgy). While Handel was at Cannons, the ducal chapel was still being constructed (it was finished in 1720). The church music was performed at the parish church (St Lawrence, Whitchurch). [7]