[mb-style] [clean up CSG] Structural concept

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Feb 7, 2008 5:45 PM, Brian Schweitzer <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > > In masses and ballets, I'd think so - at least I've seen it used that
> > > way with regards to those.  I'm not sure what term would otherwise be
> > > used for opera and cantantas.  (While we're there anyhow, does anyone
> > > know if there's a term for the collective numbered songs within
> > > operas?)
> >
> >
> > Do you mean what we call in French "Acte"?
>
> It's likely my flawed memory of French, but I thought Acte referred to the
> Acts?
>
> I'm trying to think of what word actually refers to the No. 1 or the
> No. 7 in these...
>
> * Oratorio in F major, K. 74c/118 "La Betulia liberata": III. Parte
> prima: No. 1 Aria "D'ogni colpa la colpa maggiore" (Ozia)
>
> * Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 74a/87: Act I, Scene X. No. 7 Marcia.
> Maestoso
>
> Off topic, but does anyone know of any example work which does indeed
> have two common names?
>
>
I still don't see where opera acts fit in your schema. Do they map as
movements? If so is the word movement appropriate? If not, what do they map
to? And what would the movements map to?

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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