Harmonic Language in Opera

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Music and Movies

 

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Lillian C

 

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September 2, 2011

 

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University

 

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One could absolutely not equate music in D minor with music in F# minor by noting only that they differ by a major third; while the key of F# minor is more or less noble and majestic in effect, D minor goes beyond simply being the saddest of all keys. The legendary composer of opera and sacred music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart associated D minor with the idea of death, and with his relationship with his father...
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Many of the most dramatic moments in Mozart's operas employ D minor, including Don Giovanni's descent into Hell. It wasn't just D minor, though, that held significance for Mozart. The accredited music scholar H. C. Robbins Landon states that Mozart considered even the most simple musical key, C major, "the key of princes, archbishops, of coronations? and Applausus cantatas? of solemn Masses for festive occasions" (110)...
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