In my opinion, the opera is a wonderful style of music which really shows how greate a voice can be. I love the fact that notes are really long and that they all have a vibrato that makes them seem even more amazing! I also like how the Italian language is heard while sung as an opera song. I really had no idea about how the Italian opera was, but know that I know, I really am amazed.
While doing some research, I found an Italian song that I thought was wonderful and I really liked. It is not totally opera but I really think its worth listening to. Its a duet sung with a Female & Male voice as the melody. The chorus is when the song turns more 'opera-like' but the wwhole song is amazing. One thing that really suprised me is the last part of the song, literally, the last note sung...Its amazing. Here is the link just in case you want to hear it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsmVnN3pzFI
Hope you enjoy it!!!
viernes, 2 de noviembre de 2012
jueves, 1 de noviembre de 2012
Some Italian Opera Songs
Mamma. Sung by Leo Nucc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p0ACKJ3dfM
Musica proibit. Sung by Tito Gobbi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGIXqUUvTE
Arias. Sung by Natalie Dessa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgibe6AogY
This video/song is the longest. But it really is worth it! just listening to the first two minutes you can notice the ability that this women has in controlling her voice, and making the best out of it! This song is an Aria; the aria is when a character expresses feelings through a flowing melody, which means that the songs sung in this video are involved in an italian opera play.
In this song we can tell that the melody is sung by a female singer, with a smooth contour and has a high range because she is a soprano. By being opera, beats are pretty long. One of the most noticable characteristics of the opera is that the notes are longer than in other types of music and they all have a great Vibrato that make the notes sound even more exciting!
The song also involves Violins which have a mid-range to high range and transverse flutes that have a high range.
The Dynamicss in the Italian opera are really important because they help those that are listening to understand the feelings that are being expressed by the singning of the current song. Dynamics help us imagine the different enviorments that go with each song. For example, in the second 1:18 of the video, the melody ( sung by the female singer ) starts with a low volume in comparasm to the volume it will end up having.
Also, the dynamics of the other instruments are really important because they help us imagine the enviorment of the current scene of the play. We can also see from minute 1:18 that the violins start really soft and low and then finish with a much higher volume, just like the melody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p0ACKJ3dfM
Musica proibit. Sung by Tito Gobbi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGIXqUUvTE
Arias. Sung by Natalie Dessa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgibe6AogY
This video/song is the longest. But it really is worth it! just listening to the first two minutes you can notice the ability that this women has in controlling her voice, and making the best out of it! This song is an Aria; the aria is when a character expresses feelings through a flowing melody, which means that the songs sung in this video are involved in an italian opera play.
In this song we can tell that the melody is sung by a female singer, with a smooth contour and has a high range because she is a soprano. By being opera, beats are pretty long. One of the most noticable characteristics of the opera is that the notes are longer than in other types of music and they all have a great Vibrato that make the notes sound even more exciting!
The song also involves Violins which have a mid-range to high range and transverse flutes that have a high range.
The Dynamicss in the Italian opera are really important because they help those that are listening to understand the feelings that are being expressed by the singning of the current song. Dynamics help us imagine the different enviorments that go with each song. For example, in the second 1:18 of the video, the melody ( sung by the female singer ) starts with a low volume in comparasm to the volume it will end up having.
Also, the dynamics of the other instruments are really important because they help us imagine the enviorment of the current scene of the play. We can also see from minute 1:18 that the violins start really soft and low and then finish with a much higher volume, just like the melody.
SOME instruments used in the Italian Opera
- Viols
The viol (also known as the viola da gamba) is any one of a family of bowedand stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
- Trombones
The trombone (German: Posaune, Spanish: trombón) is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate.
- Cornettes
- Traverse flutes
A transverse flute or side-blown flute is a flute which is held horizontally when played. The player blows "across" theembouchure hole, in a direction perpendicular to the flute's body length. - Lutes
It is a plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back
- Harps
The harp is a multi-stringed instrument. Depending on its size, which varies, a harp may be played while held in the lap or while it stands on a table, or on the floor. Harp strings may be made of nylon, gut, wire or silk. - Harpsichords
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed. The harpsichord was widely used in Renaissance and Baroque music. - Organs
The Organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument
- Bagpipes
Bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa. - Cromornes
Cromorne is a French woodwind reed instrument whose design originates in the early Baroque period in France
Italian Opera
Italy is the home of opera music. Opera music was created in Italy in the 17th century by Italian music composer Claudio Monteverdi. Italy has produced a consistent stream of some of the world’s best opera singers, conductors and composers up to the present day. For example, Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli who are both singers of opera music.Because the grandiose nature of opera music, it relies heavily on the presence of favourable acoustics in the building that the opera music is being performed in. Examples of fantastic opera houses in Italy can be found in Milan, Venice, Naples and Verona to name only a few.
La Scala Milano. Milan, Italy. Inaugurated on 3 August 1778
La Scala Milano. Milan, Italy. Inaugurated on 3 August 1778
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