Baroque Vocal Music:
Opera:
- opera invented in baroque
- drama that is sung
- combines all of the arts
- uses soloists, chorus, orchestra, dancers
- Commedia del Arte (Opera first developed in Italy)
Conventions in Baroque Opera:
- Overture
- Recitatives
- Arias
- Ensembles (duets, trios, etc.)
- Choruses (“big finish” of an act or opera)
- Baroque Opera is spectacle (“opera seria”, “opera comique”, flying machines, trap doors)
Orfeo, Monteverdi (Orpheus)
- Eurydice
- goes to underworld to try to save to her