Shayna koller
Mush 101
Copland
Opera
To begin, music has been part of societies for many centuries, so what influenced opera? In the medieval ages there was the rise of the polyphonic art, this helped expand the freedom of the voice allowing them to move around in choirs and in the churches. There would be a soloist or a few voices singeing loader or quicker with a choir in the back. Then the renaissance era introduces secular music, which started recognizing woman singers who in the future become a big part in opera. The era started forming poetry with music adding word painting and madrigals. These would bring the words to life, reflecting the meaning of the words with the music and enhancing the emotions for the audiences. Soon the sixteenth…show more content… Many of these traits were the "rich chromatic harmony, dramatic declaration, vocal virtuosity, and vivid depiction of emotions word music." By the time, the Renaissance ended composers were wanting more with music wanted new ways to increase the vocal music to single instead of combining many that we have seen in the medieval and renaissance. This desire is what led to opera
Once the Brogue era started, the Renaissance theatrical traditions and musical ways slowed down and started to die out making a path for opera to start up. Early opera in Italy was found with
Claudio Monteverdi where he wrote his operas based on Greek mythology. Not long after a public opera house was opened in Venice, where he carved the way for Italian opera that lasted for hundreds of years. Those years ran into the 18th century and opera spread like an infectious disease across the rest of
Western Europe. However, France rejected this new "disease" and stayed with court ballet and classical tragedy. Opera in England was a different story. They called it the masque and were performed privately. The puritans though that stage plays were of the devil and only were allowed if the play was set to music. As opera continued to became popular, a woman named Barbara Strozzi became
