Ballet

Opera was invented around

•1) 1300

•2) 1600

•3) 1800

Which refers to the “spoken” parts of an opera (even though

they are actually sung?)•1) Recitative

•2) Aria

Louis XIV(r. 1643-

1715)

17th c. France

•Academie Royale de Musique

•Operas, Divertissements

http://youtu.be/mGUC7aC7dYQ

18th C. France

•Opéra-ballet

•eventually voiceless

•scenario

19th C. Ballet

•NOTE: in ballet, “classical” and “romantic” are chronologically reversed.

•1800-30 transition

•Beethoven’s Promethius

•Still in operas

Romantic Ballet

When did ballet first begin to separate

from opera?

•1) 17th C

•2) 18th C

•3) 19th C

Classical Ballet

Which ballet is not by Tchaikovsky?

•1) the Nutcracker

•2) Sleeping Beauty

•3) Swan Lake

•4) the Nightingale

Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake (1876)

20th Century Ballet

Classical Modern/Contemporary

Sergei Diaghilev, Ballet Russes

Stravinsky, Rite of Spring (1913)

Despite the innovations of Rite of Spring, the Ballet

russes was a•1) Modern dance company

•2) Classical dance company

•3) Neo-Lullyan dance company

Isadora Duncan Martha Grahamhttp://youtu.be/WOdOGFtTa7A

Aaron Copland,Appalachian Spring

(1944)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91y-NEdTj-g

Ballet in the American Musical

An American in Paris (1951)