Mus His 2 Week 4 - MU 3316, Lipton PDF

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Study/Listening Questions Week IV 1. The three genres in which Mozart made his most important contributions were opera, symphony, and concerto. Between these three genres, Mozart most passionately wished to compose opera. 2. Mozart moved permanently to Vienna in 1781. Mozart made a living there through private commissions of new works, private students, and his concerto concert series. 3. Mozart’s collaborator on his last three Italian comic operas performed in Vienna was the talented court librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, the most important and revered librettist of the time. 4. Don Giovanni is described as a dramma giocoso because it is a comic opera that mixes comic and serious characters and comic and serious musical styles. 5. In the opening scene complex from Don Giovanni, Mozart portrays each of the three main characters’ class in their vocal styles and the orchestra. Donna Anna sings in an opera seria style, with lyrical lines often doubled by the orchestra because she is an upper class, serious character. Leoporello sings in an opera buffa style whose lines are often syllabic or set in a parlante style, with orchestral commentary in between phrases, because he is a comic, lower class character. Don Giovanni sings in a variety of styles depending upon the situation, able to assimilate whatever style suits his situation. 6. The fourth movement of Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 is sometimes described as the “symphony with the fugal finale” because in the fourth movement, Mozart wrote a five-part fugato in the coda, in which he used five of the six primary theme motives from the exposition, combined in many combinations and permutations....