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23 Cards in this Set
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Rhythm |
length of duration of notes |
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tempo
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rate of speed/pace of music |
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instrumental chamber ensemble
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2 to 12 instruments
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quartet
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2 violins, viola, cello
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Dates of the Baroque period are |
1600 to 1750 |
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Florentine Camerata |
Group of early Baroque writers, artists, and musicians whose aim was to resurrect the musical drama of ancient Greece |
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Recitative |
vocal style in opera that imitates the natural inflections of speech |
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Aria |
Highly emotional song in opera. |
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Libretto |
text of an opera (the lyrics) |
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Cello and Harpsichord |
Two instruments that would most likely be played by the basso continuo in the Baroque. |
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Monody |
Style of music introduced in the early Baroque by the Florentine Camerata, which featured a single vocal melody with accompaniment. |
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Castrato |
Artificially created male soprano or alto who dominated Baroque opera. |
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Concerto |
Instrumental genre based on the contrast of two dissimilar masses of sound |
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The number of movements a typical Baroque concerto has. |
Three |
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Tuttie |
The accompanying instrumental group in a Baroque concerto. |
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Program music |
Instrumental music intended to mirror the content of a literary text |
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Melismatic |
Setting of plainchant with five or more notes per syllable. |
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Troubadours and Trouveres |
Male aristocratic poet-musicians of medieval France. |
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Ars nova |
Style developed in the early fourteenth century by French musicians. |
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Cantus Firmus |
A fragment of Gregorian chant or a secular tune used the foundation of polyphonic writing in the Renaissance. |
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Counter-Reformation |
Movement that recaptured the loyalty of the Roman Catholic Church people after the Protestant revolt of the early sixteenth century. |
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Word painting |
an expressive device used by Renaissance composers to pictorialize words musically in madrigals |
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England |
Madrigals with simple, pastoral, and often humorous texts were especially favored here. |
