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Around 1700, the text notes the emergence of what two separate opera traditions?
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Coming opera and serious opera
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Which of these was newer and thus more hospitable/ open to innovation?
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Comic opera
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What did comic opera offer that made it appealing to a wider audience?
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Newer and easier to change; social criticism
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What is the term generally used for the new comic opera of the eighteenth century?
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Opera buffa
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How did the plots of these new comic opera differ from those of the older serious opera?
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Centered on normal people in the present instead of history and mythology
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What was an intermezzo, in operatic terms?
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Performed in 2 or 3 segments between the acts of a serious opera or play
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What is Pergolesi's most famous intermezzo? How many characters does it employ and what is the basic story/ plot?
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La Serva Padrona; 3; social hierarchy. The man's maid loves him so she tricks him into proposing by pretending she is already engaged to this other man who is really his butler in disguise.
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Around the mid-century, how did the plots of comic operas change/ expand?
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Serious, sentimental and woeful plots began to appear
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What musical ending also appeared in comic opera at about the same time? What was this and how did it challenge composers talents?
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Ensemble finale; composers had to follow the rapidly changing action of the scene without losing the coherence in the musical form
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What was the Italian term for serious opera?
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Opera Seria
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What poet gave such serious opera its generally accepted form?
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Pietro Metastasio
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His operas often pitted what two feelings?
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Love and duty
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Were the stories / plots for such operas old or modern?
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Old
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What was the intent of such operas?
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To promote morality through entertainment and display models of merciful and enlightened rulers in tune with enlightenment thought
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How many acts were expected in a serious opera?
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3
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