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This project revives the secco recitative style in opera, emphasizing its dramatic and artistic significance from 1740 to 1840. Through historical research and practice-led experimentation, it aims to enhance performance techniques and audience engagement with this often-overlooked genre.
The secco recitative: those moments of sung speech where virtually all of an opera's dialogue and drama occurs and only occasional bass notes are written as accompaniment.
Currently, these recitatives are often sped through or eliminated altogether.
This research project will bring back the dramatic and artistic importance of the secco recitative genre in operas from a relatively neglected period in operatic performance practice research: 1740 to1840.
It proposes a thorough investigation of the…
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
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United Kingdom, London
Type: Public body
Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
SME: No
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