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But we are concerned now only with the play as Da Ponte and Mozart gave it to us. In the dramatic terminology of the eighteenth century "Don Giovanni" was a dramma giocoso; in the better sense of the phrase, a playful drama a lyric comedy.
Their lips meet in a last kiss and Antar dies in the arms of the fairy. The phases of the story are clear in the chain of musical scenes, of the movements themselves and within them. acts of the tragedy. It is clearly the Antar motive, here amidst ruin and desolation. The fairy theme is also unmistakable, that first plays in the flute, against soft horns, Allegro giocoso,
It is made up of opera 25, 26, and 39. Opus 25 contains four characteristic pieces, a "Dance" full of dance-rapture, a most original "Impromptu," and a "Rondo Giocoso," which is just the kind of brilliantly witty scherzo whose infrequency in American music is so lamentable and so surprising.
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