Baroque Terms - Western Michigan University

Chapter 9

Opera France: Comédie-ballet and Tragédie en musique • in 1672, Lully created new operatic genre: tragédie en musique (also know as tragédie lyrique) • drew on classical mythology and chivalric

Chapter 8: Music Travels: Trends in Italy, Germany, France

1 Lully’s tragédie lyrique was an outward expression of the grandeur and authority of the State 2 The opening ouverture sets the tone with majestic dotted rhythms, followed by a section in a different meter that is polyphonic (and imitative) This is called a French overture a It includes choral pageantry and suites of dances

HOMEWORK CHAPTER 16 - Julianne Baird

b tragedie en musique or tragedie lyrique c divertissement d air de cour e agrement 6 Which of the following statements best describes the form of the French Overture: a three sections in fast-slow-fast-order b a slow opening marked by dotted rhythms, followed by a fast fugal sections, with an optional slow closing section

o e f r O ed ce di i r u E - Harvard University

prominently; such devices were commonplace in the French Tragédie lyrique, whose influence on both Gluck and Calzabigi cannot be overstated Following the premiere, Gluck’s opera was subjected to a number of revisions and reworkings (all of which have

Teacher Guide - Virginia Opera

grand, full-scale “tragédie lyrique” German composers Carl Maria von Weber (Der Freischütz), Richard Strauss (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Richard Wagner (Der Ring des Nibelungen) developed diverse forms from singspiel to spectacles unified through the use of the “leitmotif”, recurring musical phrases