Abstract
The orchestra begins to play in double-triple meter. The ternary division Inside the binary and the melodic line give us the feeling of being in the middle of a Baroque dance scene. Suddenly, Sevadilha bursts on the scene, shouting "Madam, the old man Wants to get up! Poor Me, who heard him spit, talk and cough". It is perhaps the first time in music history (Perhaps, the only time), in which composer and librettist put in the mouth of an opera character the word "escarrar" (to spit abruptly). Although this freedom might come from the fact that, during that time, the character were Played by puppets, anyway, the contrast between this dance music and the words of Sevadilha should cause in the audience a laughing reaction, as would perhaps be the Authors wish. This article proposes an analysis of the opera "Guerras do Alecrim e Manjerona" , by searching contrasts between the music of António Teixeira and the text of António José da Silva, unusual words and other caricatural aspects that the genius of a man, too ahead of his time, as was António José da Silva, produced.
Translated title of the contribution | The ironic conttast between music and text in António José da Silva's "Wars of Rosemary and Manjoram" |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 17-18 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Glosas |
Issue number | 12 |
Publication status | Published - 1 May 2015 |
Keywords
- António José da Silva
- Guerras do Alecrim e manjerona
- opera
- Portuguese music