Modern Day Opera

I. Example of Modern Day Opera
 a. Soap Operas
    - I may be extremely wrong, because I am totally guessing, but I think soap operas would be an example of a modern day opera, although they are not singing. Simply, the drama and stories they hold relate to concepts of opera. In addition, when they make things more dramatic and suspenseful during soap operas they usually have a cadence where everyone is silent as they take in the "surprising news" or something. Furthermore, although it is explained as an unusually long melody like with a solo and I would associate it with the part when they slowly zoom in on a person's reaction until it is uncomfortable to watch during a soap opera. Overall, I think this is a modern day opera, excluding the singing, because of the relations it has and also soap opera has the word "opera" in it.

b. (revision) Broadway Musicals
   - Well to begin with I didn't know what the word "edifying" meant so I looked it up and according to the Google, it means "providing moral or intellectual instructions." So in my opinion, I would have to say in today's time period that Broadway musicals would be more of a edifying form of entertainment because majority of the people prefer to watch that instead of operas. People tend to zone out after a while of constant singing, even though they are either recitatives and arias, in operas.On the other hand, Broadway musicals include dialogue and it will grab the audience's attention the entire time because it is constantly different. They use more variations of forms, whether it being recitatives, plainly speaking, or arias. I guess back in the earlier time periods it would be more influential because operas were a big deal but now it is not, therefore it won't have much of an influence.

Opera Analysis: Ariodante

I. Start and End Time...
  a. Aria: 34:16- 36:46 seconds
  b. Recitative: 33:33- 33:59 seconds
II. Motor Rhythm: 1/8 rhythm
III. Demeanor:
 a. His face looks depressed or desperate throughout the song
 b. In the beginning, the girl looked anxious or frantic
IV. Baroque composing technique:
 a. elision
 b. However! There are some cadences throughout the piece
V. Scene Description:
 a.  I believe this is the scene where Lurcarnio speaks to Dalinda and finds out about Polinesso's evil plot, therefore Lurcarnio decides to fight for his brother's honor.

Bach Little Fugue Analysis

Start and End Time of the Exposition: 0:05- 0:56 seconds
Start and End Time of an Episode: 2:51- 3:00 seconds
Start and End Time of Two Middle Entries:
  a. 0:20-0:54
  b. 0:40-1:58
Start and End Time of when the subject appears in major in the development: 1:50-2:00 
Start and End Time of Final Entry: 3:18-3:37

Baroque vs. Pop Music

I. Johann Sebastian Bach- Partita No. 3, BVW 1006 | Hilary Hahn
  a. Contains elision
     ex. around 40 seconds it goes on for awhile then goes softer and softer but then it picks up again
  b. Long melody
     ex. overall piece was a very long super human solo
  c. Cadence
     ex. at about 3:30 there was a cadence, I assume there is more but I didn't listen to the ENTIRE thing.

II. The Weekend- The Hills
  a. Doesn't really have a long melody
    ex. repeats more of the chorus rather than creating a new melody
 b. you can expect it to end
NOT SURE IF I DID THIS SECTION RIGHT

III. They both work for each piece because they are both different, therefore the listener is intrigued to hear the variation the way I was.

IV. To be honest, I prefer the second one because it is more common in music now whereas the baroque music makes me think of the old age.

Johann Sebastian Bach- Partita No. 3, BVW 1006 | Hilary Hahn

I. Observations:
 a. Really fast paced in the beginning
 b. Slowed down a bit
 c. Doesn't really have a break
 d. Sounds really pretty
 e. Soft sounding (but that can be because of the instrument)
 f. Really long
 g. Gets really quiet then loud (like a wave shape)

1. Do you like this song?
 To be honest, I actually really do like this sound especially since it was done with he violin.

2. What elements of the song draws you into listening?
 What makes me want to continue listening is the soft like quality of the violin and also the nonstop playing. From my perspective, there wasn't a part that took a pause so it kept your attention on the piece so you don't miss a single thing.

3. Can you analyze the message of the song?
 There wasn't any lyrics involved so I don't know what the message is but from the sound it sounds like it would be in a scene of someone walking or something.

3 Questions

1. Do you like this song?
2. What elements of the song draws you into listening?
3. Can you analyze the message of the song?