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Terms | Definitions |
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 Cantor | the practitioner who performs music, as distinguished from the musicus; in a medieval monastery or nunnery the person specially trained to lead the music of the community who sat with one of the two groups and led the singing. |
| Chorale Cantata | a genre of sacred vocal music that employs the text and tune of a pre-existing Lutheran chorale in all or several of its movements |
| Accompanied recitative | a recitative that features a full orchestra accompaniment; it appears occasionally in the sacred vocal music of Bach, but was used more extensively in the operas of Gluck and later composers. |
| Colla parte | a technique in which all the instrumental parts double the vocal lines. |
| Passion | a large-scale musical depiction of Christ's crucifixion as recorded in the Gospels; an oratorio on the subject of the passion. |
| Collegium musicum | an association of musicians in the eighteenth-century Germany, consisting usually university students, who came together voluntarily to play the latest music in a public setting such as a large scale cafe' or beer hall. |
| Goldberg Variations | a virtuosic set of thirty variations preceded and concluded by a simple air, the air and each variation based on the same thirty-two-bar harmonic pattern. |
| The Musical Offering | a collection of pieces: a trio sonata, two fugues (called ricercars), and ten puzzle cannons made for the royal family for King Frederick the Great of Prussia. |
| The Art of Fugue | a collection of fugues and canons, all derived from the same subject, and all apparently intended for keyboard (BWV 1080) |
| B-Minor Mass | Bach's last composition, and perhaps the grandest of all the large-scale projects of the Baroque Latin Mass Tradition. |
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