Music App Listening #2

Front 1

When I am laid in Earth
(track 22)

Back 1

Purcell

Front 2

Christmas Concerto
Movements IV, V, VI
(tracks 23,24,25)

Back 2

Corelli

Front 3

Fugue in C minor
(Track 26)

Back 3

Bach

Front 4

French Cantata
(Le Sommeil d'Ulisse)
(Track 27)

Back 4

Jacquet de la Guerre

Front 5

Cantata no. 140,
Wachet auf (Sleepers, Awake!)
Movements
VII, I (track 28, 29)

Back 5

Bach

Front 6

Music for the Royal Fireworks
Bouree
Rejouissance
II, IV
(Tracks 30, 31)

Back 6

Handel

Front 7

Little Fugue in G minor
(Organ)

Back 7

Bach

Front 8

Every Valley
from the Messiah

Back 8

Handel

Front 9

For Unto us a Child is born
from the Messiah

Back 9

Handel

Front 10

Hallelujah Chorus
from the Messiah

Back 10

Handel

Front 11

Name 5 Baroque composers other than Bach and Handel:

Back 11

Purcell, Corelli, Jacquet de la Guerre, Vivaldi, Telemann

Front 12

What are the characteristics of Baroque music?

Back 12

Polyphonic, affections, terraced dynamics, repetition of main melody and rhythms (Highly imitative)...

Front 13

What are the similarities between opera and oratorio?

Back 13

Musically they are the same.
They both have aria, recitative, vocal soloists, style of writing, etc...

Front 14

What are the differences between opera and oratorio?

Back 14

Opera was based on classical themes such as Greek tragedies.
Opera has sets, actors, etc.
Oratorio had no visuals just performance of spiritual music with bible context

Front 15

Dance Suite

Back 15

Instrumental pieces that are written in the style of dances.
A multimovement work for keyboard or orchestra. It includes contrasting, stylized dances popular in the Baroque period.

Front 16

Polyphonic

Back 16

Two or more melodies playing at the same time.

Front 17

Affections

Back 17

Moods in the Baroque movements (Happy, Sad, Depressed, etc)

Front 18

Terraced Dynamics

Back 18

Alternating between Loud and Soft.
The sudden change between Loud and soft or vice versa.
(gradual dynamics had been invented yet)

Front 19

Basso Continuo

Back 19

The practice of creating an accompaniment from a composed bass part by playing the bass notes and improvising harmony above them.
The harpsichord bassline was usually reinforced by a cello or bassoon while the right hand improvised

Front 20

Concerto Grosso

Back 20

A composition for a small group of instrumental soloists and an orchestra.

Front 21

Fugue

Back 21

Polyphonic composition based on the main theme called the subject.
The themes are stated successively in of the voices of the contrapuntal structure