词汇 | libretto |
释义 | libretto noun[ C ] theatre & film, music specializeduk /lɪˈbret.əʊ/ us /lɪˈbret̬.oʊ/plurallibretti or librettos the words that are sung or spoken in a musical work for the theatre(歌剧或音乐剧的)歌词 Opera aria chamber opera comic opera grand opera hip-hopera met opera opera house operagoer operatic operatically operetta overture prima donna recitative secco recitative supertitle surtitle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Foreign words & phrases used in English libretto | American Dictionarylibretto noun[ C ] us/ləˈbret̬·oʊ/plurallibrettos music the words that are sung or spoken in an opera or similar musical performance Examples of librettolibretto In opera, the presence of a libretto seems to provide both motivation for these questions and ready answers. I have compared the eighteenth-century libretti, which give a fair approximation of the changes made in 1754. Apart from these three moments and other slight alterations in the recitative, the 1812 libretto closely resembles the 1806 version. None of the other librettos consulted for this study contains a trace of the alteration, nor do any reviews mention that such a change occurred. Accompanying such analyses we find stories within stories, plot summaries that present an (often complicated) opera in miniature, making the libretto manageable. Eighty-nine little books, or libretti, produced for these semi-staged concerts over a 150-year period, have survived. While he concedes 'undoubted musical qualities', he finds that the libretto renders the opera obsolete, no longer acceptable. Some musicologists have argued for a relationship between the thirty-four chords and later musical statements in the opera, statements tied to both plot and libretto. As the duet begins, the libretto's earlier language of visions and thought is almost entirely taken over by the language of sounds, listening, voices. A chronological examination of die libretti demonstrates, however, a gradual demand for realism to the extent that writing and decor became more equally weighted. They ground their interpretations in diverse historical documents including scores and librettos, political manifestos, poetry and medical texts. All quotations from the libretto are from this edition, indicated by a page number in brackets. Even though the libretto indicates each divertissement for the ballet, the dancers, here representing priests and demons, certainly also participated in the instrumental airs. He laboriously rewrote the libretto as a legitimate account of the past and strove to display a reliable knowledge of his subject's historical sources. Printed rubrics from the libretto are in italics; sung text is in inverted commas. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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