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Singspiel ("song-play") (plural Singspiele) is a form of German-language music drama, regarded as a genre of opera. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto It is characterized by spoken dialogue, sometimes performed over music, interspersed with ensembles, popular songs, ballads and arias (which were often folk-like and strophic in nature). A dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog) is a reciprocal Conversation between two or more entities. Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more A ballad is a Poem usually set to Music; thus it often is a story told in a Song. This article is about the musical term "aria" For other meanings or uses of the word see Aria (disambiguation. In Music, strophic form (or chorus form) is a sectional and/or Additive way of structuring a piece of Music based on the

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Origins

The first Singspiele were probably translations of English ballad operas from the late 18th century. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The term ballad opera is used to refer to a genre of English stage entertainment originating in the 18th century and continuing to develop in the following century The 18th century lasted from 1701 to 1800 in the Gregorian calendar, in accordance with the Anno Domini / Common Era numbering system In 1736 the Prussian ambassador to England commissioned a translation of the ballad opera The Devil to Pay. Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state This was successfully performed in the 1740s in Hamburg and Leipzig. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong A further version of this was made by Johann Hiller and C. Johann Adam Hiller ( December 25, 1728 &ndash June 16, 1804) was a German Composer, conductor and writer on F. Weisse in 1766, the first of a string of such collaborations which led to them being called 'the fathers of the German Singspiel'. [1]

French comic operas (Opéra comique) were also frequently transcribed into the German, as well. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Opéra comique (plural opéras comiques is a French genre of Opera that contains spoken dialogue The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Singspiele were considered popular entertainment, and were usually performed by traveling troupes, rather than by established companies within metropolitan centers. See also Entertainment (disambiguation and The Entertainer (disambiguation Entertainment is an activity designed to give people

Singspiel plots are generally comic or romantic in nature, and frequently include elements of magic, fantastical creatures, and comically exaggerated characterizations of good and evil. Magic, sometimes known as sorcery, is a Conceptual system that asserts human ability to control the natural world (including events objects people and

Development of the Singspiel

While tragedy was a less frequent motif, it should be noted that most of the Singspiele that are still part of the modern operatic canon were those written on more serious themes, such as Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio, or Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart touched the genre under an imperial commission for the New National Theatre in Vienna with Die Entführung aus dem Serail in 1782. In a Narrative, such as a novel or a film motifs are recurring structures contrasts or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist. Fidelio (Op 72 is an Opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber ( 18 December 1786 in Eutin, Holstein, Germany - 5 June 1826 in London Der Freischütz is an Opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber to a Libretto by Friedrich Kind. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( K 384; The Abduction from the Seraglio; also known as Il Seraglio) is an Opera Singspiel He continued to write in the genre, with works such as Zaide, Der Schauspieldirektor and Die Zauberflöte, although some argue that because the latter incorporates a significant number of elements from various other musical and dramatic genres, it is a work that defies such a clear-cut classification. Zaide is an unfinished Opera, K 344 written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780 Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario) K 486 is a comic Singspiel written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German The Magic Flute (German Die Zauberflöte, K 620 is an Opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Singspiel is considered the predecessor of German romantic opera, and many of the genre’s composers, such as Beethoven and Weber, paved the way to the more complex operatic style associated with Wagner, Richard Strauss and others. Romantische Oper (literally German romantic opera) was a genre of early nineteenth-century German Opera, developed not from the German Singspiel Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 &ndash 8 September 1949 was a German Composer of the late Romantic era and early modern era particularly noted As a result of this evolution, however, Singspiel itself had become basically obsolete by the end of the 19th century. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar More directly it may be seen as the ancestor of the operettas of von Suppé, Johann Strauss II and their successors. Operetta is a genre of light Opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter Franz von Suppé (Francesco Suppé Demelli (April 18 1819 &ndash) was a Composer and conductor of the Romantic period notable for his four dozen Johann Strauss II (also known as Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr

In the 20th century, Kurt Weill entitled his work Mahagonny (1927) as a 'Songspiel' (sic). WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Kurt Julian Weill ( March 2, 1900 &ndash April 3, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny is a political-satirical Opera composed by Kurt Weill to a

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  1. ^ Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Ballad opera. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an Encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians
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