Finale (music)
The term refers to a finale be adopted section of the dramaturgy of a music-theater work. In the configuration of the " numbers" within a musical-dramatic work of the finale has a class by itself: In general, it does not start as it unconditionally, how many other "open" forms the musical-dramatic genre, such as an introduction or an ensemble piece in the middle of an act. Rather, it must be generally assumed that a culmination of events is reached, that a scandal is triggered in the finals at the beginning, which is motivated by an extraordinarily contentious people or action constellation. This situation may have already been brought before, and in the " final " portion of an act or a whole work be brought only to a provisional end of whatever kind or degree.
Two types of final ensembles are possible in the opera and come just in the so-called "big" opera of the late 18th to the 19th century before: the finale of an act, with the still closes the opera, and the work - finals. Although each of these types of final open still Prospects for Future, but gives way to the dramatic situation in both cases considerably from each other. In the initial situation, however, the preliminary final distinction naturally hard on the final, it's just the question of whether the dramatic situation still carries enough explosive to motivate more " acts".
A popular and often impressive dramatic constellation is that the already smoldering in the exposure and the next course of action private conflicts of the protagonists are suddenly dragged to the public stage in the final. This then offers the possibility, which is already in duets or other "small" ensemble forms Negotiated on a large scale coram publico to repeat again in an intensified form, and thus also to illuminate it again from scratch.
In general, you can assume that it is multi-unit " numbers" are in the finals, in which the protagonists and their confidants or choirs in several different situations with and successively confronted, and that in the ideal case, the action caused by surprising effects and news unvorhergesehenermaßen developed. In contrast, a particular musical form is the so-called " chain -finals ' approach, developed the composers of opera buffa. As with a Rondo individual musical themes are strung together in the exchange, but partly also return individual topics directly, or after a certain time interval, again.
In some operas, especially the "magic opera " The Magic Flute on the type, the musical portions of a finale are strongly separated from each other; find it here then instead of even multiple change of scenes.
A single figure is not given in the final numbers, and yet there are in almost all operas of the late 18th and 19th century musical- dramatic (large) sections, which are called final.