La Gazza Ladra Overture- Rossini
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- La Gazza Ladra Overture- Rossini
- Context
- Premiered 31st May 1817 at La Scala, Milan
- Overture to the opera, written on the morning of the premiere, written last
- Opera based on French play entitled La pie voleuse
- Libretto for opera written by Gheradini
- The Orchestra
- Piccolo, flute, 2x oboe, 2x clarinet in A, 2x bassoon, 4x horn (2 in E and 2 in G), 2x trumpet in A, trombone, timpani in E and H (B?), triangle, bass drum, snare drum, violins I and II, viola, cello, bass
- No focus on a particular instrument
- Larger orchestra
- Structure
- Abridged sonata form (no clear development)
- Periodic phrasing: 8 bars antecedent, 8 bars consequent
- Harmony
- Mostly diatonic and functional
- Dominant 7ths e.g. b.180
- Borrowed chords e.g. b.28
- Suspensions e.g. bb. 43-5
- Diminished chord e.g. b.104
- False relation e.g. b.180
- Augmented 6th e.g. bb.467-8
- Pedal note e.g. bb.318-27; tonic or dominant, usually played by lower instruments
- Texture
- Monophonic/ Antiphonal bb.1-3
- Generally melody dominated homophony
- Greatly reduced in 'A', then quickly returns to fuller texture, then monophony
- Heterophony b.139
- Almost homorhythm in coda
- Melody
- Two main themes
- Theme A: focuses on strings, delicate, triplets
- Theme B: focuses on woodwind
- Two main themes
- Context
- 1st Sub. (A)
- 219-275: G Major
- Link
- 2nd Sub. 2nd Theme (B2)
- Coda
- Transition (T)
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