Adding Ornaments / myLot

United States

February 10, 2016 4:41pm CST

I have a Handel aria that I use as my warm up aria--Di Cor Mio--Right now, I am adding vocal ornaments to the second A section. These arias come in ABA form-- I am listening to an old Joan Sutherland recording--on youtube---I would post it here for your listening pleasure, but I don't think we can post videos. She makes it sound so easy--a beautiful, clear and easy placement Here it is!

Dame Joan Sutherland: Handel - Alcina, 'Di', cor mio, quanto t'amai'

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Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 1926 - 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the ...

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (117224)

• El Paso, Texas

14 Feb 16

So, what is a Handel aria? I never had a lot of interest in classical music

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divalounger

@divalounger (6182)

• United States

14 Feb 16

In opera, the recitative feels a lot like "talking" --it tells us what has happened to the character. The aria--or song, tells us how the character feels about what has happened--they are full of emotion--Handel was a composer --a contemporary of Bach's

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (117224)

• El Paso, Texas

14 Feb 16

Ummm

ok @divalounger but now I'm even more confused. Ma used to drag us to the operetta's that they'd play on Ft Bliss way back in the 1960s and I've had to endure Madam Butterfly and Ieda or is it spelled Aieda, you know, the one about an egyptian woman entombed alive and finds her lover hid in there with her. Quite morbid if ya ask me.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (117224)

• El Paso, Texas

14 Feb 16

Too morbid for me @divalounger I'd rather hear happy music which to me is mostly rock n roll ..... I can dance to that so it's happy to me.