Cavatina, what does it mean?
Larry Broda
>What I want to know is: what does it mean?
This is from a respected dictionary which I won't name in case the
copywrite police are watching:
cavatina (kv&schwa.'ti:n&schwa.). Mus. [Ital. ] A short song of simple
character, properly one without a second strain and repeat; `frequently
applied to a smooth melodious air, forming part of a grand scena or
movement' (Grove).
1836 DICKENS Sk. Boz (C.D. ed.) 205 The popular cavatina `Bid me
discourse'. 1845 E. HOLMES Mozart 26 An Italian Cavatina which she knew
by heart.
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Larry B.
Mark Basinski - UA School of Music
>a...@imta.com.au (Andrew Mack) writes (asking about the term CAVATINA:
Generally speaking a Cavatina is an aria or song form, usually with the
following characteristics:
Binary - i.e. A A' where the second part is basically the same as the
first part. Usually the A will modulate from tonic to dominant, and A' will
start with same material in the dominant and modulate back to tonic.
The other characteristic is that the accompaniment for a cavatina is
usually very chordal, not polyphonic.
A good example of a classical cavatina can be found at the start of Act
2 of Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" - the aria "Porgi amor"
Mark Basinski University of Arizona
Adjunct Assistant Professor School of Music
jaffa#a#empire#d...@empire.apana.org.au
rl> From: rlj...@ingr.com (Ronald L. Jolly)
rl> Organization: Intergraph Corporation
rl> ummmmm I think it is a pasta dish available at your local Pizza Hut
rl> :-)
rl> In article <38euk3$4...@hood.imta.com.au>, a...@imta.com.au (Andrew
rl> Mack) says: >
>Cavatina, Cavatina, yeah yeah...
>
>What I want to know is: what does it mean?
>
>o Is it a dirge?
>
>o Is it a love song?
>
>o Is it a "Just before my nervous breakdown, I ran out of beer and sat down
> and wrote this song" song?
>
>What does the word "Cavatina" mean? (Girl's name? Funeral parlour?)
>
>
>advTHANKSance
could be a guys name ? laugh!
hehehe
Jaffa
... I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere!
~~~ Blue Wave/RA v2.12 [NR]
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Robert S. Trent
jaffa#a#empire#d#apana#d#org#d#a...@empire.apana.org.au
(Ja...@Empire.Apana.Org.Au) wrote:
> >What does the word "Cavatina" mean? (Girl's name? Funeral parlour?)
>
A cavatina is literally a short song. It generally lacks the repetition of
the aria, and is generally in one section. Two good examples are in
Haydn's _The Season's_. Although guitarists are probably more familiar
(and more interested in Giuliani's _Sei Cavatine_. The appellation
_cavatina_ is also given to instrumental music with the characteristics of
song (and esp. those of an Italian flavor, hence the Italian word
_cavatina_.
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Tor-Einar Jarnbjo
: Cavatina, Cavatina, yeah yeah...
: What I want to know is: what does it mean?
: o Is it a dirge?
: o Is it a love song?
.. and it's a love song. I have the text for it somewhere, but
I don't know if the text was written to the melody later, or
if they were written "for eachother".. It begins with something
like "You were so beautiful.."
Tor-Einar
Michael Olson-Jones
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