Music

Long and lyrical with irregular phrases wide somewhat angular skip and a variety of melodic lines with one movement

• Harmony

• Rhythm

• Melody

• spectacle

Frequently changes its tempo and time signature

• Rhythm

• Harmony

• Melody

• spectacle

Script of an opera

• Libretto

• Text

• Music

• Instrument

Voices are generally associated with type of role

• Libretto

• Text

• Music

• instrument

When a character expresses feeling through a flowing melody

• Recitative

• Castrato

• Bel Canto

• Aria

Imitating the pattern of rhythm of speech

• Recitative

• Castrato

• Bel Canto

• Aria

Characters were often based on everyday people you may meet in real life and plot is often melodramatic

• Serious opera

• Opera Seministra

• Opera Verismo

• Grand opera

Serious story but has a happy ending

• Comic Opera

• Opera comique

• Serious opera

• Opera Seministra

Famous art songs composer

• William Shakespeare

• Franz Schubert

• Wolfgang amadeus mozart

• Alma Mahler Werfel

Two types of structure

• stropic

• strophic

• though composed

• through composed