MUS- M 402 1st EditionLecture 3Outline of Last Lecture I. Rousseau and An Introduction to Comic OperaII. Opera buffaIII. Writer’s Opera vs. Singer’s OperaOutline of Current Lecture I. Gluck’s “Operatic Manifesto”II. Exploring How Composers Utilized the Emerging Classical StyleCurrent LectureI. Gluck’s “Operatic Manifesto”a. Gluck’s “Operatic Manifesto” was Gluck’s second “reform” of opera.i. Gluck desired to reform opera buffa and opera seria because he did not care for comical opera and wanted to get back to a more serious type of opera. ii. Music was restricted to the function of serving the poem with expression and involved less ornamentation. iii. The dialogue was not so strictly split up between arias and recitatives. iv. For the first time, the Overture was responsible for introducing the main themes of the opera. v. Instrumental interjections now were designed to be impulses of the moment to spur on the emotion of the storyline. b. Gluck’s “reform”- the perfect order of expected elements and forms. i. Gluck creates a classical aesthetic with the repetition of simple elements ina “perfect order”. II. Exploring How Composers Utilized the Emerging Classical Stylea. Dramatic integration- the integration of ballet, singers and orchestra music togetheri. Tremendous power is generated through a variety of means and very predictable materials. b. Expected syntax- composers in the emerging classical style are able to please and fulfill the expectations of the audience by sticking to the expected syntax and simplicity of
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