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The 15 pages that link to Da capo aria, each with the reason it gives.

• Bel cantoRelated: Its return section gave singers room for the embellishment associated with early bel canto.

• Italian operaBroader topic: Its repeated opening gave singers room to display virtuosity and expressive variation.

• Opera seriaBroader topic: Its returning A section gives singers room for virtuoso variation within the genre’s recurring aria form.

• RecitativeCompared with: Recitative often introduces the situation or decision that an ensuing da capo aria explores.

• ColoraturaRelated: The returning section often invited singers to add elaborate ornaments.

• AriaBroader topic: Its return gave singers room for ornament and made the aria’s emotional point recur.

• George Frideric HandelRelated: Handel used its return structure to give singers opportunities for expressive variation.

• Venetian operaRelated: Its repeat structure gave singers room for virtuoso display in Venetian opera.

• CantataBroader topic: Its returning music creates a recognizable large-scale shape within a cantata.

• Pietro MetastasioRelated: Metastasio’s scenes often culminate in arias built for this form.

• Christoph Willibald GluckCompared with: Its opportunities for vocal ornament could interrupt dramatic momentum, a tendency Gluck resisted.

• St Matthew PassionRelated: Several solo arias use this form to dwell on an emotional response to the Passion.

• Giovanni Battista PergolesiRelated: This familiar Baroque form shapes vocal writing in Pergolesi's operas.

• Mass in B minorBroader topic: Several solo movements use this familiar Baroque form to frame expressive contrasts.

• History of operaBroader topic: Its return invited singers to ornament music and display virtuosity.