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lustforlife on March 28, 2010
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Italian | English |
|---|---|
 Baroque | 1600-1750 a style marked by strict forms and elaborate ornamentation |
| Classical | 1750-1820 |
| Opera | a union of music, drama, scenery, costumes, and often dance. demands singers who can act. all lines are sung. |
| Libretto | "little book". the text of an opera, usually written by a poet working in collaboration with the compser |
| Monody | expressive solo singing to simple accompaniment |
| Recitative | simplist form of monody. musically heightened speech, through which the plot of the opera is communicated to the audience |
| Figured Bass | a numerical shorthand placed below the bass line |
| Basso Continuo | bass-driven, chordal support in Baroque music, played by 1 or more instruments |
| Aria | more expansive and more tuneful than a recitative |
| Arioso | a manner of singing halfway between aria and recitative, more declamatory less rapid-fire |
| Chamber Music | music for soloists performed in the home or small auditorium |
| Cantata | a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text |
| Chamber Cantata | a cantata performed before a select audience in a private residence; intimate vocal chamber music, principally of the Baroque area. usually concerned unrequited love or the heroes and heroines of ancient history/mythology |
| Basso Ostinato | bass repetition |
| Ground Bass | bass repetition. bass provided ground on which an entire composition could be built |
| Idiomatic Writing | exploits the strengths and avoids the weaknesses of particular voices and instruments |
| French Overture | 2 sections: 1) slow duple meter with stately dotted rhythm 2) fast triple meter and imitation |
| Sonata | type of instrumental chamber music |
| Chamber Sonata | a Baroque sonata with dance moves and consisted of 4 movements with alternating tempos: slow-fast-slow-fast |
| Solo Sonata | written for a solo keyboard instrument or for melody instrument in which 2 basso continuo instruments are needed. |
| Trio Sonata | two soloists accompanied by continuo |
| Concerto | a musical composition marked by friendly contest between a soloist ans an orchestra |
| Solo Concerto | solo instrument with orchestral accompaniment |
| Concerto Grosso | a composition for orchestra and a group of solo instruments |
| Tutti | a full orchestra |
| Fugue | a composition written systematically in imitative polyphony, usually with a single main theme |
| Melodic Sequence | the repetition of a musical motive at successively higher or lower degrees of the scale |
| Exposition of a Fugue | the successive presentation at the outset, each voice presents the subject in turn |
| Episode | freer sections where the subject of a fugue is not heard in its entirety |
| Chorale | a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune |
| Oratorio | a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text |
| da capo aria | a ternary or A-B-A form that brings back the first section with embellishments improvised by the soloist. |
| Ritomello Form | all or part of the main theme that returns again and again. a form that Vivaldi was 1st to popularize |
| Vienna | capital of the Holy Roman Empire. in Mozart & Haydn's time the population was 215,000 making it the 4th largest city in Europe |
| Antonio Stradivari | best violin maker (1644-1737), produced nearly 1,000 violins, violas, cellos and guitars, 600 of survive today |
| Kochel | person who numbered Mozart's works chronologically |
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