Angela Gheorghiu, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di To - Valurile Dunarii: Muzica

ARIETTA (Italian: arietta, diminished. From aria; French. Ariette). 1) A small aria, usually in two-part form, characterized by simplicity of presentation, melodic song. 2) In the 1st floor. 18 century in French opera - aria da capo, to-ruyu sang on Italian. text, usually in brilliant coloratura style. Unlike the aria, in Italy. the opera was not associated with the development of scenes. actions and was used exclusively as a “plug-in” number in divertissement. 3) In one of the varieties of the French. comedian. operas - “comedies interspersed with ariettes” (“comedie melee d'ariettes”) - solo song (aria) in Nar. spirit, performed before conversational dialogue (or after it) and opposed to the so-called. vaudeville - will conclude. verse to a popular tune. The struggle between the two genres, which ended in 1670 with the crowding out of vaudeville, is reflected in the comedic. the opera The Process of Ariett and Vaudeville by C. S. Favard (1760). Subsequently, the A. genre (1) was used by N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov in “The Snow Maiden”, R. Strauss in the music for the comedy “The Tradesman in the Nobility” by Moliere (1917, 1st ed. ). Occasionally “A. ” applies to instr. plays (concluding part of the op. sonata op. 111 L. Beethoven). I. M. Yampolsky.