Patter song

A patter song (English about " Plapper Song ") is a song which is characterized in that as many words are sung in the shortest possible time. This is therefore supported by the music by singing each syllable corresponds to an own sound and the meter often runs in the eighth or sixteenth notes. Patter songs usually have a comic effect and are therefore often used in comic situations.

Already composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti left this technique anticipate (about the duet Non ti voglio from Tiberio imperatore d' Oriente, 1702). Commonly, however, were introduced only from the 18th century, when composers Buffo solos, including Bartolo's aria La vendetta from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Act 1, Scene III Patter songs. Among the most famous examples certainly also includes the final of the cavatina Largo al factotum from Rossini's Barber of Seville. More examples can be found in the works of Logroscino, Piccinni, Paisiello, Haydn and Donizetti.

In English-speaking countries are known especially Patter songs from Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, including I am the very model of a modern major -general of The Pirates of Penzance and the trio My eyes are fully open from Ruddigore. The latter contains the following lines:

In 1941, Ira Gershwin found in Kurt Weill musical Lady in the Dark use for its written in student days collection of fifty Russian composers names runterzurattern Danny Kaye took less than a minute. From more recent times, for example, Professor Ambronsius ' truth song name from the musical Dance of the Vampires.