Form Analysis Exercise

This exercise is designed to teach cantabile-cabaletta form in class. Students are given the translation below and asked to mark places where they hear formal breaks of different sizes while the aria "Casta diva" plays. They then confer in small groups, and finally the groups provide their answers to the whole class while I take board notes. When the form has already been diagrammed on the board, I introduce the Italian vocabulary for the sections and we apply it to other arias.

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