Monteverdi biography summary graphic organizer

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  • Includes Biographies and Puzzles for: Hildegard of BingenClaudio MonteverdiAntonio VivaldiJohann Sebastian BachGeorge Frideric Handel How.

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    Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu 9780511321931, 9780521856751

    Table of contents :
    Frontmatter
    List of illustrations (page xi)
    List of tables (page xii)
    List of musical examples (page xiii)
    Notes on contributors (page xv)
    Foreword (Craig Calhoun, page xxi)
    Acknowledgments (page xxxii)
    Introduction: musikdrama and the academic turns (Victoria Johnson, page 1)
    I The Representation of Social and Political Relations in Operatic Works
    Introduction to Part I (Jane F. Fulcher, page 29)
    1 Venice's mythic empires: Truth and verisimilitude in Venetian opera (Wendy Heller, page 34)
    2 Lully's on-stage societies (Rebecca Harris-Warrick, page 53)
    3 Representations of le peuple in French opera, 1673-1764 (Catherine Kintzler, page 72)
    4 Women's roles in Meyerbeer's operas: How Italian heroines are reflected in French grand opera (Naomi André, page 87)
    5 The effect of a bomb in the hall: The French "opera of ideas" and its cultural role in th

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    Claudio MONTEVERDI(1567-1643)
    L’Incoronazione di Poppea
    Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) - Nerone
    Danielle de Niese (soprano) - Poppea
    Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo) - Ottavia
    Max Emanuel Cencic (counter-tenor Ottone
    Antonio Abete (bass) - Seneca
    Ana Quintans (soprano) - Drusilla
    Claire Debobo (soprano) - Fortuna) - Pallade) - Venere
    Katherine Watson (soprano) - Virtù/Damigella
    Hanna Bayodi-Hirt (soprano) - Amore
    Suzana Ograjanešek (soprano) - Valletto
    José Lemos (counter-tenor) - Nutrice/un famigliare di Seneca
    Robert Burt (tenor) - Arnalta
    Mathias Vidal (tenor) - Lucano
    Andreas Wolf (bass) - Tribuno/Liberto
    Damian Whiteley (tenor) - Mercurio/Littore Tribuno/un famigliare di Seneca) -
    Juan Sancho (un famigliare di Seneca/Tribuno/Console)
    David Webb (un famigliare di Seneca/Tribuno/Console)
    Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
    Pier Luigi Pizzi (director, set an

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    Music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque music

  • 2. > Known as the Middle Ages or “Dark Ages” that started with the fall of the Roman Empire. > Monophonic plainchant was named after Pope Gregory I.  Characteristics of Gregorian Chants:  Monophonic  Free meter  Modal  Latin liturgy  Use of neume notation

  • 3.  Troubadours > group of musicians who performed secular music.  Characteristics of Troubadour Music:  Usually monophonic  Sometimes with improvised accompaniment  Tells of chivalry and courtly love  Originated in France  Written in French language

  • 4.  Adam de la Halle (1237-1288)  also known as Adam le Bossu  oldest secular composer  Was a French-born trouvere, poet and musician. His works:  Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion  La Chanson du roi de Sicile

  • 5. Renaissance - comes from the word “renaitre” which means “rebirth”; “revival” and “rediscovery”.  Renaissance music became popular as entertainment and activity for amateurs and educated. 