Conventional and self-contained numbers
Carmen Micaela’s numbers are conventional, self-contained (possibly even Da Capo, the ultimate closed form), diatonic, and sentimental. Micaela’s opposite, the “bad” girl Carmen, often sings chromatic lines and is accompanied by chromatic harmony. This is especially true when she is being devious, as in Carmen’s seguidilla aria which is tonally unstable (i.e., it starts in […]
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