Mozart memorization
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- How does "footmarch" go?
- Swsw
- Gavotte
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2-beat anacrusis
Fake pastoral - Bourée
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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?
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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?
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Come scoglio
Smanie implacabili
Tutti nel cor vi sento
Porgi amor - What two ensembles does Rosen see as sonata form?
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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?
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Self-contained expressive passages (first number in Cosi Act I finale)
Shock tutti—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?
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ensemble
chorus - Where might the ideas of off-stage chorus, and violence, respectively, have come?
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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?
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Domenico Guardasoni
Count Heinrich Rottenhan - What aria did Mozart write before the rest?
- “Non più di fiori”
- 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?
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CorneilleÂ’s Cinna
RacineÂ’s Andromaque - What characters in Tito are historical?
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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 l’âme, 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
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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?
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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?
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Arbace Act II scene replaced Id/Il scene
“Fuor del Mar” 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
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Tutti nel cor vi sento
Qual nuovo terrore - Which important arias (3) were cut from first performance?
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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?
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It implies tonic/dominant polarity
It implies important recap - What are Platoff's characteristics of the first section of the "buffa" aria?
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Like Sonata exposition
Short two-bar phrases beginning on upbeat - What are the characteristics (3) of the second part of the Platoff buffa aria?
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A (I) B (x) AC (I) form
often thematically unrelated (esp. if 2-tempo aria)
“Patter” - What four characters receive rondos for their final arias?
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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?
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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)
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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:
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"Che soave zeffiretto" (Bb) to
"Pace, pace mio dolce tesoro" (Bb) in finale - Allanbrook's pastoral numbers
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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"
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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, cos’è 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?
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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?
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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," Elvira’s “Ah, taci, ingiusto core.”
- Which of Despina's numbers has a relationship to another opera? What opera? Why?
- “Una donna a quindici anni,” "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 (1786–90).
- How did Hoffmann feel about cosi?
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“truly operatic,”
“delicious irony” - How did Hoffmann feel about DG?
- Figaro more “a play with songs” 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?
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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?
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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?
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·“Il mio tesoro” (21)
LeporelloÂ’s escape aria (20) - What pieces were added for Vienna version?
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Elvira, opera seria scena “In quail eccessi, mi tradì”
“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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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
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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
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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