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little book: A work containing the words to an opera, musical, or ballet Melodramma: melodrama: A style of opera Opera: work: A drama set to music for singers and instrumentalists Opera buffa: humorous opera: A comic opera Opera semiseria: semi-serious opera: A variety of opera Opera seria: serious opera: An opera with a serious, esp. classical ...
Much of Monteverdi's music was unpublished and is forever lost; the lists below include lost compositions only when there is performance history or other documentary evidence of the music's one-time existence. In the "Voices/instrumentation" column of the chronological list, S= soprano, A= alto, T= tenor, Bar= baritone, B= Bass.
List of German church cantatas by George Frideric Handel HWV Title Composed notes 229-1 Das gantze Haupt ist krank à 8 Halle, c. 1700–03 music lost 229-2 Es ist der alte Bund, Mensch à 12 Halle, c. 1700–03 music lost 229-3 Führwahr, er trug unsere Krankheit à 15 Halle, c. 1700–03 music lost 229-4
In a fugue, stretto (German: Engführung) is the imitation of the subject in close succession, so that the answer enters before the subject is completed. [ 1 ] In non-fugal compositions, a stretto (also sometimes spelled stretta ) is a passage, often at the end of an aria or movement , in faster tempo.
The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). The list includes original creations as well as reworkings of the operas (some of which are translations, for example into French or from French into Italian) or subsequent versions of completed operas.
Divenire (in English "to become") is a music album by the Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi. Released in 2006, the album includes his critically acclaimed track "Primavera". [ 1 ] Shortly after its release, Einaudi went on tour to various places in the UK , playing both the music on Divenire and orchestral arrangements of his most famous works ...
Compare, for example, (emphasis in italic) "John gave a book to her" with "John gave her a book". In Italian these two different emphases map respectively to "John diede un libro a lei" (stressed form) and "John le diede un libro" (clitic form). Compared to English, Italian presents a richer set of cases.
Guido of Arezzo (Italian: Guido d'Arezzo; [n 1] c. 991–992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music.A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor—or by some, developer—of the modern staff notation that had a massive influence on the development of Western musical notation and practice.