Music Test Part 2
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Jacqueline1492 on October 4, 2011
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Baroque Period
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Early Baroque | Most evolutionar periods in music history, characterized by homophonic textures. |
| Middle Baroque | characterized by the diffusion of the style into every corner of europe |
| Terraced Dynamic | Piano to Forte back to piano |
| Basso Continuo | Bass part with numbers to represent chord tones |
| Concerto Grosso | Small group of soloists pitted against a larger group of players in a group |
| Ritornello | First and last movement of Concerto Grosso, theme repeatedly presented in fragments |
| Concerto No. 5 in D Major | Brandenberg, Concerto Grosso form |
| fugue | Polyphonic composition based on one main theme |
| Countersubject | in fugues, subject in one voice is accompanied by this |
| Stretto | subject is imiatated before it is completed |
| inversion | subject can be turned upside down in a procedure |
| Organ Fugue in G minor (little fugue) | Bach, subjects appread throughout |
| Libretto | text of an opera |
| Reciatative | Present plot material |
| aria | expresses emotion |
| Orfeo | 1st large scale great opera from 1607 composed by monteverdi |
| Henry Purcell | English Composer, wrote Dido and Aeneas, considered one of the greatest operas ever |
| Ground Bass | repeated musical idea in bass |
| Baroque Sonata | instrumental work, multimovement peice for one to eight instruments |
| trio sonata | 3 melodies lines,written3 parts, but preformed by 4 players |
| sonata de chiesa | church sonata |
| Antonio Vivaldi | wrote scared and secular music in venice, also was to first to write solo conerto: a peice for every instrument in the orchestra |
| La Primavera (Spring) | Listening:Antonio vivaldi, poly chonic texture, converto grosso and ritornello form. |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | German composer, once he died, the baroque period haulted |
| Brandenburg no. 5 in D major | Johann Bach, 3 movements |
| Chorale | Hymn tune |
| Chorale Prelude | short compesistion based on the hymn tune |
| oratorio | large scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists and orchestera, usually set to a narrative text. usually about bible stories |
| George Handel | Lived in germany most his life, wrote Oratorios such as Messiah |
| Hallelujah | listening: Handel. one of the worlds famous choral peices sudeen changes among momnophonic and polyphonic, and homophonic textures. |
| catrato | males with female parts |
| overture | beginning of piece |
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