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33 Cards in this Set
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Basso Continuo is...
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...a continuous bass line
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Piano is...
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Soft
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Forte is...
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Loud
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Mezzo is...
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medium
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The Doctrine of Affections is...
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Rule...style of emotion. Character acts emotion.
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Monody is...
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One singer and bass line accompaniment
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Recitative is...
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Talk-sounding song in opera that moves it along
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Ensembles are...
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Several singers singing at once, singing different words
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Opera is...
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A sung drama. Secular. Acted out.
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Dido and Aeneas is by...
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Henry Purcell. Baroque. Based on the Aeneid.
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The Camerata was...
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An intellectual group in Florence that started opera.
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Cantatas are...
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Short andd sacred, Biblical, with choruses.
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Bach is from...
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Saxony
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Bach composed...
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A Mighty Fortress is Our God
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An Oratorio is...
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Not meant to be staged, a concert setting.
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Handel is...
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A Baroque composer who spent 5 years in Italy and was wildly popular in England and w/ King George I.
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Handel wrote...
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The Messiah--Rejoice Greatly and Hallelujah! Chorus
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Vivaldi was...
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A Venetian violinist who worked at a women's finishing school. Composed 500+ concertos.
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Program music is...
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Music with a story to it; it tries to tell a story through the ntoes.
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A suite is...
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A collection of stylized dance movements.
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Water Music was composed by...
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Handel
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The characteristic form of classical music is...
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The Symphony
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A movement is...
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A separated but connected piece in a work.
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The first movement in the sonata cycle is...
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Sonata-allegro form (fast)
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The second movement in the sonata cycle is...
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Mvt. 2, slow
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The third movement in the sonata cycle is the...
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Mvt. 3, mnute & trio, w/ three parts
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The fourth movement in the sonata cycle is the...
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Fast Finale.
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Sonata allegro form goes...
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ABA: Exposition/Development/
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Mozart was...
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A big weirdo child prodigy who died a pauper.
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Haydn was..
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The last of the patroned musicians. "Papa" "Father of the Symphony" "Father of the String Quartet"
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Beethoven was...
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The Supreme Architect.
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A coda is...
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A Tail.
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The first four notes of the 5th Symphony is a...
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Motive of Fate Knocking on the Door.
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