Music

[Ollybeak]

What is a solo vocal composition usually followed by one or more aria sections called

[dreeks55]

Hi - Suspect it's either SCENE or SCENA (Latin origin of SCENE)

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[dreeks55]

I suspect it's either SCENE or SCENA (this is the Latin origin of SCENE).

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[dreeks55]

... just in case, here's an extract from "Beethoven Explored" by Stephen Rose ...

Scena and aria �Ah perfido!� Op.65 A much earlier vocal work is the scena and aria �Ah perfido!�. This dates from a period of Beethoven�s career when he was trying to master all the important compositional genres; it was finished in February 1796 in Prague, during his first