Pieces

Question 1

NAWM 73 Le musiche opera l’Euridice

Answer 1

Jacopo Peri, opera 1600

• earliest surviving opera in a complete score
• includes 2 types of monody: recitative and aria

Question 2

NAWM 74 L’Orfeo, excerpts from Act II

Answer 2

Montiverdi, opera 1607

• stylistically diverse
• elaborate instrumentation, means that patrons had ALOT of money
• aria, canzonetta
• hemiolas highlight dance-like properties
• rhythmic parallelism is used as an expressive device
• the last section is a polyphonic madrigal

Question 3

NAWM 71 Cruda Amaralli

Answer 3

Montiverdi, madrigal 1590’s

• taken from his fifth book of madrigals
• example of second practica
• free verse
• petty, one-sided love

Question 4

NAWM 72 Vedro ‘l mio sol (I will see my sun)

Answer 4

Caccini, solo madrigal 1590’s

• solo voice with basso continuo
• published in le nuove musiche
• performed in Florence
• used polyphonic singing techniques

Question 5

NAWM 75 L’incaronazione di Poppea, Act I Scene III

Answer 5

Montiverdi, opera

• solo singers, no accompaniment
• based off musical interp. of text, not libretto
• about real historical figures
• dramatic content, not poetic form

Question 6

NAWM 76 Artemesia, Act I, Scene III

Answer 6

Cavalli, opera

• historical figure queen Atermesia II
• his 22nd opera
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