226 THE CLASSICAL PERIOD MENUETTO. Allegretto.Di Enfrang ans dem Seri! MOZART 227 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mensctte de cope DIE ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL Ad I, No. 5; Act Il, No. 8 The Singspiel, a German form of comic opera with German libretto and spoken dialogue, developed in the early part of the eighteenth century and reached an artistic peak with this work. The plot concerns a Spanish lady, Kostanze, who is sold by pirates along with her servants, Blonde and Pedrillo, to the Pasha Selim, who hopes to win her affection. The man with whom she is in love, Belmonte, comes to her rescue and with Pedrillo arranges a midnight escape. Act I, No. 5 (Chorus of the Janissaries) This is ceremonial music by the Pasha’s escort, heralding his return from a day of boating. The formal divisions are clearly distinguished by short instrumen- tal punctuations and by changes in the choral texture, Equally clear are the modulations. Locate each of these, and describe the modulation in each case. To gain asense of the overall structure of this movement, you may wish to construct a formalitonal diagram that identifies by measure numbers the instrumental passages, the choral passages, and the tonalities,