MUS202: Music Through
the Centuries 2
Spring 2010
Opera
Handout for listening list • Handout for Midterm preparation
Bugs Bunny: "What's Opera,
Doc?"
Composer • Composition • [textbook • score] SCORE IF AVAILABLE AS PDF (page numbers from PDF score)
BAROQUE
Monteverdi • L’Orfeo • [pp.183-194 in textbook; NAWM 54]
1 Prologue (Tocata, Ritornello, "Dal mio Permesso amato")
2 “Tu se’ morta”
CLASSICAL
Mozart • Don Giovanni • [pp.367-371 in textbook; NAWM 100]
3 “Ah chi mi dice mai”
4 “Madamina, il catalogo e questo”
ROMANTIC
Verdi • Aïda • [pp.474-480 in textbook]
5 “Ritorna vincitor!”
6 “O terra, addio; addio valle di pianti”
Wagner • Tristan und Isolde • [pp.480-489 in textbook; NAWM 121]
7 Prelude
8 “Mild und leise wie er lächelt” (Liebestod)
Mussorgsky • Boris Godunov • [pp.508-510] in textbook]
9 “Uf, tyazhelo!”
10 “Skuchno marinye, ah, kak skuchno-t!”
20th CENTURY
Debussy • Pélleas et Mélisande • [pp.537-541 in textbook]
11 “Nous sommes venus ici il y a bien longtemps”
R. Strauss • Elektra • [pp.500-504 in textbook]
12 “Allein! Weh ganz allein”
13 “Orest!”
Adams • Nixon In China • [pp.655-658 in textbook]
14 “The People Are The Heroes Now”
Glass • Einstein On The Beach • [p.655 in textbook]
15 “I Feel The Earth Move”
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103765