Music Appreciation

Madrigal Proper, In this form, the madrigal was through-composed. It used quite a bit of word-painting, which is the matching of music to the words in the text. There also is The Ballet, which is a piece in which dancers tell a story through their movements and the music. Lastly, there is The Are, with is a form of madrigal that is performed in a number of different ways, including…

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Dido and Aeneas

Musical Example of this texture: Music example 8 Act 1 figure 11 onwards ‘Cupid only throws the dart’ Dialogue/Antiphonal – e. G. Double Chorus ‘In our deep vaulted cell’ This playschool :more than one choir) movement features effective antiphonal (the alternation of different groups of instruments) exchanges. The Echo Dance of the Furies which follows this uses dialogue to great musical effect. Musical Example of this texture: Music example 9…

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