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Musical paintbrushes...imagery and feelings through sound

In this blog, I will be selecting many sound clips from Puccini's opera Tosca and analyze the tonal paintings in them. I will also be selecting other works from other composers and throw in an aria analysis here and there.

Polar opposite orchestration, laughs and jabs within the music

2/21/2017

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A :11, Scarpias's line "non vale quella prova? Allora..ripigliamo!" has an eerie silence in the orchestra. It emphasizes the terror of the sudden entrance of it  on Scarpia's "ripigliamo!". At :28, Tosca enters with her screams. The violins are high but not  in the stratosphere. We don't hear a lot of bass and the orchestration remains in the treble clef area. When Scarpia enters though at :39, we hear everything in the strings moved up a 6th..the same line Tosca sings is therefore transposed up. But Puccini adds a dark bass line, thanks to the brass. The listener therefore gets a huge auditory difference in register when Scarpia comes in. The large difference is like a smothering over Tosca's line..a gaping chasm in textures: very high and very low, like Scarpia opening up his arms to grab her or a monster opening up his jaws to eat his prey. The running 6ths seen in figure 1 underneath this section is like a description of how Tosca is feeling..she just wants to run away from all of this. At :47 the brass line moving up (figure 2) is like a laugh that Scarpia actually has written in his staging here. Audio is Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo, and Renato Bruson. Conductor is James Levine, MET.
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  • Home
  • Violin: bella sonore!
    • Instrumental biography
    • violinist
  • singing: La voce e la vita!
    • vocal biography
    • working with Dennis Hyams
    • opera and musical theatre
    • oratorio work
    • sacred music
  • International work
  • doll restoration
    • restoration of hard plastic/vinyl dolls
    • restoration of composition dolls
    • restoration of bisque dolls
    • restoration of Barbies >
      • restoration of a color magic barbie
  • food art
    • wedding and anniversary cakes
    • special occasion cakes
    • other cakes
    • elaborate cookies and desserts >
      • creation of a 3-D sugar cookie
  • "crochet-tivity"
    • scarves, cowls, and tea cozies!!
    • my hats
    • my one-of-a-kind stitches
    • my mother's bowtie scarves
  • other artwork
  • Ballet: a poem in motion
  • Musical paintbrushes
  • art analysis
  • Contact