| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Recitative | singing in a speech like format |
| Aria | Lyrical, melodic, expressive, rhythmic |
| Chorus | Groups of people singing in the background |
| Libretto | Text of the opera |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | German baroque organist |
| Baroque | Brass, Strings, and woodwinds were popular instruments,Italy, Germany, and France were 3 main musical centers at this time. |
| Baroque opera | roughly 1600 opera began, |
| Monody | one person singing |
| Claudio Monteverdi | One of the very first people to compose opera. Early Baroque. Orfeo(1607) |
| Dido and Aeneas | Opera written by Henry Purcell: Trojan soldier/ going to conquer land on Queen Dido's Island. They fall in lover. He says he has destiny to fulfill. Leaves Queen Dido to conquer land. |
| Opera | a drama set to music |
| Orfeo | Composed by Claudio Monteverdi first opera using recitative and arias |
| Cantata | story set to music, to be sung by a chorus |
| Sleeper's Awake, cantata 140 | Bach-Baroque |
| George Frederic Handel | a prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759) |
| Messiah | George Frederic Handel-Baroque |
| Oratorio | musical composition, usually on a religious theme, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra |
| "The Little Fugue in G Minor" | Bach-Barogue |
| Countersubject | The second theme presented in a fugue. |
| Subject | main melody |
| Fugue | (bach)composition based on a melody, repeated in combination with rhythmically independent counter subject |
| Antonio Vivaldi | Italian baroque composer and violinist (1675-1741)wrote the Four Seasons |
| Concerto grosso | Baroque concerto based on the opposition between a small group of solo instruments and ochestra. |
| Solo concerto | solo instrument and an accompanying instrumental group |
| Baroque orchestra | strings, recorders, oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani, harpsichord |
| The Four Seasons | Antonio Vivaldi-baroque |
| Program music | Music that describes a nonmusical subject, like a story, object, or scene, through the use of musical effects |
| Ritomello form | quick movements |
| Sonata Form | a form developed by the Classical composers and used in almost all the first movements of their symphonies, sonatas, etc. |
| Sonata | a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms |
| Chamber ensemble | music for a small ensemble |
| String quartet | 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello |
| String Quartet op. 33 no. 3 mvt. IV"The Bird" | Franz Joseph Haydn - Classical |
| Acts | the major divisions of a play |
| scene | a subdivision of an act of a play |
| Trouser/pants role | where a girl plays a guy role |
| Singspiel | a form of German opera, typically with spoken dialogue |
| The Marriage of Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - classical opera in which the servant outwits his noble master, who is trying to seduce his fiancée. |
| Opera buffa | Italian comic opera |
| Opera seria | a serious Italian opera. |
| Classical piano | Grand and Upright |
| Harpsichord | Early Baroque keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked by quills instead of being struck with hammers like the piano. |
| Cyclic form | unity of movement |
| Fate motive | short-short-short-long-first motive in sonata form-Example - symphony #5 in C minor Beethoven |
| Comedy in Music | Minuet vs. Sherzo |
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