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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The whole question of how _much_ sonata form influenced the structure of operatic numbers is a fascinating one.<BR>
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Charles Rosen has a chapter on "arias," as I recall, in his Sonata Forms book. Maybe only in the revised version, which not all libraries own.<BR>
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I used to use arias by Dittersdorf and Grétry to make this very point, in my undergrad Classic-Romantic music-history course here at Eastman. <BR>
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Dittersdorf: Doktor und Apotheker, aria "Verliebte brauchen keine Zeugen" (which I initially found in the History of Music in Sound series of LPs that were produced to coordinate with the Oxford History of Music)<BR>
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Grétry: Richard Coeur de Lion, aria "Si l'univers entier m'oublie" (ditto--which suggests to me that maybe they were discussed in regard to sonata form in the respective volume of OHM, or why else would two s-f arias have ended up in the anthology?).<BR>
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As I recall, the three main sections of music coordinate directly with the strophic divisions of the text (though differently in the two arias).<BR>
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I don't recall if there is a discussion of this kind of repertoire (opera arias and ensembles) in Hepokoski/Darcy book on Sonata Theory.<BR>
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The topic surely invites further study!<BR>
Ralph Locke<BR>
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Subject: [Smt-talk] vocal sonata forms<BR>
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I'm looking for compositions for voice written in sonata form - either solo voice(s)<BR>
with accompaniment or choir with or without accompaniment. The only works I've<BR>
been able to find so far are those listed in the Groves entry on sonata form: <BR>
Mozart, "Ah taci ingiusto cora" from Don Giovanni; Haydn, "With Verdure Clad"<BR>
from The Creation; Beethoven, Benedictus from Missa Solemnis; and Brahms, "Ihr<BR>
habt nun Traurigkeit" from the German Requiem. Does anyone know of any more?<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
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Peter Silberman<BR>
Ithaca College<BR>
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