Opera and it's Components
Components of OPERA
OPERA
RECITATIVE
ARIA
SECCO
ACCOMPAGNATO
OVERTURE
A stage drama set to music in its entirely, made up of vocal pieces with instrument accompaniment and usually with orchestral overtures and interludes.
LIBRETTIST
LIBRETTO
Recitative
musical speech that advances the plot or action, vocal style, grew out of the earliest monodies of Florentine Camerata
style of monody (accompanied solo song) that emphasizes and indeed imitates the rhythms and accents of spoken language, rather than melody or musical motives.
The english word OPERA is an abbreviation of the italian phrase opera in musica or "work in music"
solo song with instrumental accompaniment, an important element of opera but also found extensively in cantatas and oratorios.
> italian for air; song, usually of a highly emotional nature, solo
>Instead of using the same music for every stanza, some composers placed variations of a melody over a repeated, steadily moving bass line
SECCO
ARIA
italian for dry, accompanied only by continuo instruments and moves with great freedom.
ACCOMPAGNATO
OVERTURE
accompanied by the orchestra and moves more eagerly
> instrumental number heard at the beginning of most operas.
LIBRETTO
> text or script of the opera
> The term, libretto is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works
> in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera
> musical composition, usually the orchestral introduction to a musical work (often dramatic), but also an independent instrumental work.
LIBRETTIST
writes the text of the work/opera.