Star Power: Opera and Musical Theatre

________ occured in the middle or end of each act and provided a non- plot- related excuse to show off costumes and choreo.

________ auf- sacred concerto containing a series of variations on chorale.

________ was the primary centre for opera.

________- english people were trying to find their identity and the arts played heavily into shaping it.

________- distrust formality and high art in worship.

________- everyone had to write like lully for 50 years after his death.

________ lutherans- using all available choral and instrumental music.

________- similar to lully's structure, overture, homophonic choruses.

________ wrote a ton of cantatas.

________ required pace and flow adjustments that created different styles and practices.

________- followed the contour of spoken french while shifting the time to match it.

________- shared features with opera but included spoken parts and were long, collaborative spectacles, appealed to all levels of society.

________- continuo bassline plays the same thing over and over (early ancestor of ostinato)

________- somewhere between theatre and opera.

________- soloists, double chorus and orchestra, different meters and temposengland.