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How does "footmarch" go?: Swsw
Gavotte: 2-beat anacrusis
Fake pastoral
Bourée: Begins with quarter-note upbeat
Weak 3rd beat
Who justifies the use of the terms dominant and tonic "paragraphs"?: Webster
What sorts of instrumentations can imply seria?: obbligato
opening rit material that character never uses (Porgi amor, non mi dir)
In which arias does Webster see "multivalence" as corresponding with extreme agitation?: Come scoglio
Smanie implacabili
Tutti nel cor vi sento
Porgi amor
What two ensembles does Rosen see as sonata form?: Figaro: "recognition" sextet
DG: Act II sextet (w/o DG)
What formal feature corresponds to highly dramatic situations for Rosen?: Large development
What unique feature did Feldman notice in Mozart's operas up to 1775?: cadential gestures (flourishes) that end the opening rit, the opening couplet, and the second rit are the same/similar (like concerto)
In what Mozart finale do the individual numbers not all begin and end in the same key?: Cosi act II
In what Mozart act do the internal movements not avoid the tonic of the finale?: DG
What is the most common form, according to Platoff, of the stretta?: ABBC
What, for Platoff, is the motion within each buffa finale number?: Action/dialogue (solo singing) to expression/Tutti
What are the three anomalies for Platoff in the buffa finale?: Self-contained expressive passages (first number in Cosi Act I finale)
Shock tuttiÂ—time is frozen).
The last tutti (Stretta
What are "the keys" of Tito?: C, Eb
What, according to John A. Rice, is the "Tito motive"?: Dotted third ascent by step
How did the finales end, respectively, in Leopold II's operas in Florence?: ensemble
chorus
Where might the ideas of off-stage chorus, and violence, respectively, have come?: Salieri
French "decorum"
When and Where did Tito debut?: Prague, National Theatre, September 1791.
Who wrote the libretto for Tito?: Caterino Mazzolà
What count and impressario were involved in Tito's commission?: Domenico Guardasoni
Count Heinrich Rottenhan
What aria did Mozart write before the rest?: Â“Non piÃ¹ di fioriÂ”
Which primo uomo played Sesto?: Domenico Bedini
What did Empress Maria Luisa call Tito?: porcheria tedesca
What writers compare Tito to Sarastro?: Daniel Heartz, Amalie Abert
Who wrote about "Cartesian principles" in Tito?: Don Neville, 1988
What seria aspect is there to Mozart's rondo for Sesto?: Exact repeat of A section
What is the basis for the character Sesto?: Cinna in CorneilleÂ’s "Cinna"
What is unique about Vitellia's rondo?: lines of quinari; supposed to be 12 lines of ottonari
What character seems like a "narrator" like Leporello: Publio
What was the heyday for settings of Tito?: 1734-74
What were Metastasio's sources for Tito?: CorneilleÂ’s Cinna
RacineÂ’s Andromaque
What characters in Tito are historical?: Tito
Publio
To what does Annio & Servilla duet bear a striking resemblance?: Mazzolà's comic operas
What Des Cartes writing does Neville talk about?: Les Passions de lÂ’Ã¢me, elevating generosity
What is important about Christine of Sweden?: Involved with the earliest proto-Arcadians, also tutored by Descartes 1649-50
What play was the basis of Gluck's first French opera, Iphigénie en Aulide?: Racine, Iphigénie
Who was Giambattista VarescoÂ’s source?: Antoine Danchet
What do Heartz and Dent suggest as the source for the crowd scenes, choruses, Priest scene? Who questions this?: Gluck's Alceste
William Mann, 1980
By what designation did WM refer to Idomeneo?: grosse Oper
What WM predecessor had already combined seria with tragedie lyrique?: Jomelli
When and by whom was Idomeneo commissioned? When performed?: 1780
Karl Theodor & Count Seeau.

1780/1
Where was the 1786 performance of Idomeneo?: Auersperg palace
What were the changes (4) to the 1786 version of Idomeneo?: Arbace Act II scene replaced Id/Il scene
Â“Fuor del MarÂ” shortened, simplified
No. 20 Duet "S'io non moro" replaced
Idamante as tenor
For which Idomeneo performers had WM already composed arias?: Anton Raaff, Dorotea Wendling
What is the most unusual aspect of Idomeneo tonally?: Each act ends in home key.
Which two pieces in Idomeneo feature drops by tone in minor: Tutti nel cor vi sento
Qual nuovo terrore
Which important arias (3) were cut from first performance?: DÂ’Oreste, dÂ’Aiace
Torna la Pace
No, la morte io non pavento
Who did Michael Kelly play?: Basilio/Curzio
What (2) things does Platoff find unhelpful about the Sonata principle in describing SM arias?: It implies tonic/dominant polarity
It implies important recap
What are Platoff's characteristics of the first section of the "buffa" aria?: Like Sonata exposition
Short two-bar phrases beginning on upbeat
What are the characteristics (3) of the second part of the Platoff buffa aria?: A (I) B (x) AC (I) form
often thematically unrelated (esp. if 2-tempo aria)
Â“PatterÂ”
What four characters receive rondos for their final arias?: countess
donna anna
fiordiligi
vitellia
How does Rosen explain slow-fast arias in terms of sonata form?: End part, even though thematically unrelated, substitutes for recap
After which aria, according to Rosen, did Mozart's thematic returns get less literal?: Entführung (1782)
What 2 arias are Webster's arie d'affetti?: Un aura amorosa
Porgi amor
What, according to Webster, is the key of "aria d'affetto": Eb
What 2 WM/daP arias have long, formal intro (Webster): Ah, Chi mi dice mai
Porgi amor
What, for Webster, do 2-tempo arias signify?: High born or pretentious
With which opera does Mozart initiate his practice of beginning and ending his operas in the same key?: Entführung (1782)
According to Webster, what is the only on-duet ensemble to be in real sonata form?: "Ah, taci ingiusto core"
Who questions whether Figaro is "in" D, and hence, the move to "subdominant" of the opening number?: Webster
Who says all of Act I is G-C progression?: Carter
Who sees Porgi Amor-->Act II finale as all "in" Eb?: Allanbrook, Carter
Who notes that sonatas are about single, not multiple mvts?: Webster
Who notes, regarding tonal unity, that audiences played cards?: Platoff
What is Rosen's DG opening span: Overture to the end of DA, DO duet
Who sang Ottavio in Prague? What other role did he sing?: Antonio Baglioni, Tito
Who sang Ottavio in Vienna?: Francesco Morello
What opera besides cosa rara and Figaro is quoted in DG finale?: Sarti, Fra i due litiganti
Year Joseph II replaced Italian company with German one: 1776
Year Idomeneo Performed: 1781
Year of Giovanni Paisiello's, Le barbier de Seville: 1782
Year of new Italian buffo company: 1783
Beginning of Figaro Compsition: 1785
Month/Year of Vienna Figaro: May 1786
Prague performance of Figaro: January 1787
Vienna revival of Figaro: 1789
Figaro's "bravura" aria: Aprite un po' quegli ochi
Count's bravura aria: Vedro mentr'io sospiro
How is "vedrò mentr'io sospir" undermined?: extension of "nacesti" corrupts regular beat
Letter duet: "Che soave zeffiretto"
Allanbrook's pastoral drama spans:: "Che soave zeffiretto" (Bb) to
"Pace, pace mio dolce tesoro" (Bb) in finale
Allanbrook's pastoral numbers: Letter duet Act III Peasant Chorus
BarbarinaÂ’s "L'ho perduta"
Susanna "Deh, Vieni"
Reconciliation (Pace, pace, mio dolce tesoro"
Beaumarchais' First two comedies: Barbier, 1775, comedy
Beaumarchias' Nozze di Figaro: 1781 (written), 1784 (performed publically)
Whence the theme "Voi che sapate"?: Dante, Vita Nuova
Which Acts combined by WM and da Ponte in Figaro?: 4, 5
What are F's and S's dance rhythms in "Cinque, Dieci": F: bourée
S: gavotte
Who was Luigi Bassi?: The Prague Count Almaviva and DG
What is the "surface" dance of "Via Resti servite"?: bourée
What dance meters are in "Non piu andrai": March, Gavotte
Allanbrook's "wave" breakdown for Act II finale: 3-2-2-1
Who talks about Ab-G resoution spanning Porgi, Amor and Dove Sono?: Carter
What sort of minuet is Susanna's "Signore, cosÂ’Ã¨ quel stupore": "Stage" minuet, noblest kind
What dance is the "artificial recreation" of pastoral?: Gavotte (Count's "Conosceti, signor Figaro?")
Which arias in Figaro have repetitive line lengths, inducing WM to introduce musical variety?: Voi che sapete
Deh, vieni
How does Noske characterize Susanna's music in Figaro?: descending leaps, coquettish triplets
What does Noske say about the Count?: "hot-headed anapests"
Who wrote the earlier "Barber of Seville": Giovanni Paisiello
Who wrote on Buffa conventions?: Michael Robinson
What writers have commented upon the parodying of the grand tragic style in Cosi?: Dent, Kerman
What aria in Cosi does Dent see as a seria parody?: Smanie implacabili
What (6) numbers seem to parody the "air" conceit of Metastasio?: Soave sia il vento
smanie implacabile
de pasta simile
come scoglio
Un' aura amorosa
secondate, aurette amiche
Who wrote on parody and burlesque in Cosi?: Rodney Farnsworth
Who wrote on Cupid, Despina, and the Pastoral Mode of Cosi?: Edmund Goehring
What is the source of Alfonso's "Vorrei dir": An aria from Paisiello's "Barbier," which Bussani sang
What were da Ponte's extremes that a finale had to cover?: adagio to strepitosissimo
What is the fast, gay minuet?: Passapied
Where is Cosi's pseudo-finale: Act I, "alla bella Despinetta"
Who played the first Fiordiligi?: Adriana Ferrarese, da Ponte's mistress
What pieces similarly vacillate between love and anger?: Ferrando's "Tradito, Schernito," ElviraÂ’s Â“Ah, taci, ingiusto core.Â”
Which of Despina's numbers has a relationship to another opera? What opera? Why?: Â“Una donna a quindici anni,Â” "Una Cosa rara," Dorothea Bussani the singerin each case.
Three compound-meter dances, order of speed: siciliano-pastorale-gigue
What distinguishes pastorale?: Frequent slurs, no dots
Whence Despina's claim that taking a second lover is natural?: Johann Pezzl (Mason), Skizze von Wien (1786Â–90).
How did Hoffmann feel about cosi?: Â“truly operatic,Â”
Â“delicious ironyÂ”
How did Hoffmann feel about DG?: Figaro more Â“a play with songsÂ” than opera
How did Hanslick feel about Cosi? When?: Not stageworthy. 1875
What is the genre of cosi?: Demonstration comedy
What is the mythical source of the conceit of Cosi?: Cephalus and Procris
Who first associated Ariosto Canto 43 with Cosi?: Kurt Kramer
Elizabeth Dunstan
Who was the founder of Merserism: Franz Anton Mesmer
When was Cosi first performed in Vienna?: January 1990
At what late point does Bruce Alan Brown think Cosi was "probably underway?": October 1789
What was the month and year of the Figaro revival in Vienna?: August , 1789
Who suggests a link with Mariveaux in cosi (two couples): Andrew Steptoe
What roles did Adriana Ferrarese play?: Susanna in 1789 Figaro
Fiordiligi
What finale has probably the most prominent use of the minor mode?: Cose
Long passage of continuous music in cosi: Gugliemo and Dorabella's duet to Per pieta.
What cosi number begins with what seems a parody of Giulio Cesare and Idomeneo: Act I Finale, "Ah che tutta in un momento"
Where is pseudo-finale in Don Giovanni?: Act II, between No. 19 (Zerlina's "Vedrai, carino") and Leporello/DE scene
How does WJA characterize the difference between Figaro's, DGs finales?: Figaro's resolve already-present problem, DG sets up and resolves its own.
What is the dance suite of the beginning of the Act II finale of DG?: march-gigue-minuet-march
Who suggests the statue isn't there and "due della notte" means two hours till sunset?: Rushton
What is the actual song in DG?: deh vieni alla finestra
What two numbers present in the Prague production were omitted in the Vienna production of DG?: Â·Â“Il mio tesoroÂ” (21)
LeporelloÂ’s escape aria (20)
What pieces were added for Vienna version?: Elvira, opera seria scena Â“In quail eccessi, mi tradÃ¬Â”
Â“Per queste tue mannine (21a)
How does WJA characterize the difference between characterization in DG, Figaro?: More rigid in DG
In what circumstances does DG adopt the "high" style?: Only when addressing the Commendatore
Who says DG's problem is lack of anxiety/guilt?: Michael Beckerman, 1985
Who classifies DA and DO as singing in the "classical Mozartian dialect"? What are the features of this dialect?: Michael Beckerman 1985
harmonic surprises, dissonance, modulations
What is the exemplary "exalted" march?: DA "Or sai chi l'onore"
Who says D-minor is DA's key?: Rosen
Who ridiculed DO? Why?: Hoffmann
Allanbrook: All tender virtues are savaged
In what source did DG steal Elvira from a nunnery?: Molière
What 2 characteristics do all of Zerlina's numbers share?: Pastoral features
2-sections
What is the original source for DG?: Tirso de Molina, 1630. "El burlador de Sevilla"
What is the most important literary precedecessor of DG?: Moliére, 1665
What version of DG had DG struck by lightning?: Carlo Goldoni. Don Giovanni Tenorio.
What was the first DG opera?: 1669. LÂ’empio punito. Acciajoli (text), Melani (music). Protagonist named Acrimante.
What was the immediate source for DG for da Ponte and Mozart? What important changes did it make?: Bertati/Gazzaniga
Removes spiders, scorpions, vinegar
Who says "dramma giacoso" is not an ambiguous term?: Rushton
Who, recently, says "dramma giacoso" is an ambivalent term?: Webster
What was the year of Mozart's letter to his dad about kinds of roles in an opera seria?: 1983
When was Bertati's DG performed in Vienna?: February 1787
When was the Prague premiere of DG?: October 1787
Who said final scene not included after first performance?: Wenzel Swoboda (so it is said), double bassist in Prague Orchestra
When was first Vienna performance of DG?: May 1788 (No LII)
When was second Vienna performance of DG?: December 1788
Who gave the characterization of DG as singspiel-romantic opera-music drama: Christof Bitter
Whence the Cherubino-Papageno-DG idea?: Kierkegaard
Who thinks DG is perfect matching of message & medium: Kierkegaard
Who says DG brings latent beauty of all women to fruition?: Kierkegaard
How do Dent and Grout differ on DG's genre: Dent: buffa
Grout: "mixed"
What is Noske's take on DG?: Social drama, DG attacks weakest link.
Who, in DG, are Noske's "strong" characters for flouting social order?: DG, DE
What was Bernard Williams, 1981, take on DG: DG important for freedom, love of life
Flawed by lack of compassion
Allanbrooke's take on the character DG: He moves between buffoon, villain, so is neither
How does WJA explain away the end: It is "actual" song
What impressario commissioned DG?: Guardasoni
What in DG is original da Ponte?: Between Act I quartet and graveyard scene

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