Duettino
A duettino is an unpretentious
Le Nozze Di Figaro and "Duettino No. 3" from La clemenza di Tito, a song only twenty-four measures long.[3][4] He also described "Via resti servita" in The Marriage of Figaro as a duettino.[5]
By the time of Gioachino Rossini, a duettino was a common part of the introduction of the farsa opera genre.[6] Rossini composed several pieces in the form.
References
- ^ Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander; Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1879). A dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by eminent writers, English and foreign: With illustrations and woodcuts. Macmillan. p. 468.
- ^ Whitney, William Dwight; Benjamin Eli Smith (1897). The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary. Century. p. 1792.
- ISBN 978-0-674-83975-5.
- ISBN 978-0-19-500732-9.
- ISBN 978-0-19-530907-2. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-19-518129-6.
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