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Baroque Era Dates
1600-1750
Rococo
France, movement between baroque and classical focused on smaller pieces
Classical Era Dates
1750-1825
Barbara Strozzi
Baroque era, italian, secular and sacred music educated in Venise
Claudio Monteverdi
wrote first opera, orfeo
W.A. Mozart
child prodigy, piano, 41 symphonies, Kochel cataloged Mozarts work K#
Viennese School
Mozart, Beethoven, Hayden
all studied in Vienna at different times
Joseph Haydn
Classical era, austrian, worked for asterhazin family wrote 104 symphonies
Ludwig Van Beethoven
9th Symphony, Chorale
Antonio Vivaldi
Baroque era, 500+ symphonies, instrumental concertos, group of concertos "4 Seasons"
Baroque Suite
(dances) collection of baroque dances
1st Movement
Sonata-Allegro Form
Expo
Dev
Recap
Coda
2nd Movement
Theme and Variation
A-B-A
3rd Movement
Minuet & Trio
A-B-A
in triple meter
later on faster and called a scherzo
4th Movement
Rondo
A-B-A-C-A-B-A
Oratoria
Sacred chorale drama containing arias, recitatives, fugues and chorus'
Handles Messiah
Overture
Music played by orchestra at beginning of an opera
sets the mood
Concerto
A piece for solo instruments with an orchestral accompaniment
Sacred Cantata
Protestan, multi movement piece of music for solo voice, instruments
Baroque Era
Fugue
Polyphonic composition based on imitation subject unifies the fugue
Passacaglia
piece of music based on repeated base line
Chaconne
piece of music built on set of repeating chords
Opera Buffa
Comic opera
Opera Seria
Serious opera
Recitative
component of opera, moves plot forward
Singspiel
light form of german opera with spoken dialogue, magic flute, Mozart
Turkish Janissary Band
military band music, bass drum, triangle, piccolo, symbol
Chorale
Beethovens Symphony #9
Hym
German protestant
Cadenza
unaccompanied fanciful solo, concerto
Phrase
musical sentence
Motive
smallest recognizable melodic or rhythmic unit
Water Music
played for royal party
composed by Handel
Thaemes River
England
Figured Bass
short hand way of writing chords in relation to bass note
Basso Continuo
instruments that read the figured bass
Libretto
text of an opera
Absolute Music
not made to tell a store, stand on its own
Virtuoso
talented performer
Florentine Camerata
Florence artists, writers, musicians resurrect ancient greece music leading to opera
String Quartet
4 people
2 violins
1 cello
1 viola
Mozarts "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
relaxing
popular
really like
think of conducter
happy
Handels Messiah
Hallelujah
Haydn's Symphony No. 100
soft
light hearted
Beethovens 5th Symphony
popular
duh duh duh duhhhh
Purcells Dido and Aeneas
voice
opera
ahhhh lady
Vivaldis "Spring" Four Seasons
upbeat
familiar
J.S Bach Contrapuctus
dark organ