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12 Cards in this Set
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Melody is unified through the use of __ and __
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imitation and sequence
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Main keyboard instruments of the Baroque period were the ___ and the ___
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Organ; harpsichord
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Founded on the string family and continuo. ( 10-40 players - small)
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Baroque Orchestra
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Composition for several instrumental soloists and small orchestra, common in late Baroque. Three movements - fast - slow - fast
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Concerto grosso
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A piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition
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Movement
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Refrain or return - recurring them playbed by entire orchestra. Opens and concludes, is repeated
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Riternello
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A composition in several movements for one to eight instruments. Contrast in tempo and character
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Sonata
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3 lines - two treble parts plus a basso continuo. FOUR people to play since two are needed for basso. THREE lines
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Trio Sonata
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A set of dance movements. Same key but differ in their tempo, meter and character. -- Stylized dances
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Suite
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Inimitative polyphony where the different parts enter alternating between the tonic and dominant tonal levels.
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Fugue
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A direction to the performer. "Continue without a pause" -- "it follows" in Italian
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Segue
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A one-act religious opera to be performed as part of the Sunday Service. -- no costumes or action.
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Lutheran Church Cantata
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