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Word Painting

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The music directly portrays the meaning of the words, so as to invoke dramatic imagery

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The fact that J.S Bach came from a long line of musicians shows that

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Music was treated more as a craft than an art

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The Castrato

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The artificially-created male soprano who dominated the Italian opera stage in the 17th century

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Recitative

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Speech-like singing, used to convey conversational dialogue

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Oratorio differs from opera in that

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There is no staging

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Mozart

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The composer whose music best exemplifies the "Classical Period's" ideals of simplicity, balance and perfection

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Movement

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A large, self-contained section within a larger work, such as a symphony

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Chamber Music

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Music for a small ensemble of two to about ten players, with one player to a the part

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An episode in a fugue is

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Short passages of other music, which provide contrast to later subject entries

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The Concerto Grosso is

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A Baroque type of concerto for a group of solo instruments and small orchestra

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In opera, a recitative serves as a

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Bridge between other numbers where the text keeps the story going

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Bachs technique of "Fortspinnug" forward spinning means

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Just as one instruments melodic phrase is coming to an end, another instrument enters with a fresh melodic idea

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The Pipe Organ

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Instrument known as "The King of Instruments" during the Baroque Period

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The "Doctrine of the Affections" is one aesthetic ideal that helps explain the music of the Baroque Period. This idea draws on the notion that the arts should move the emotions, so:

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The artist must select a desired affect, an emotional state that his or her work will achieve in the viewer or listener, which evokes a single, unadulterated emotional state

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Classical Period

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1750-1825

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Boroque Period

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1600-1750

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Piano Forte

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soft-loud

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Ritornello Form

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1.) Name for orchestral material that typically starts the movement
2.) Little return opening material usually returns in fragments and in different keys until the end

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three main sources we can trace instrumental music to

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dance
virtuosity
vocal music

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three new dramatic types of vocal genres that develop in the Baroque Period

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cantata
opera
oratorio

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In Baroque music the Basso Continuo Group almost always consists of

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a bass line instrument (such as a cello or a bassoon) and a keyboard instrument (such as a harpsichord or an organ)

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Vienna became one of the main music centers of Europe during the

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Classical Period

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Among the first successful examples of program music is

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Vivaldi's Four Seasons

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Program Music

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instrumental music associated with a story, poem, or other extra-musical idea

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In Ritornello Form we can expect to hear

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the "tune" return

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Monterverdi: L. Orfeo, "In fiorito prato" through "Tuse morta"

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The Baroque Period
Opera
Vocal

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Barbara Strozzi: "Lagrime mie"

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The Baroque Period
Vocal
Contada

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Handel: Messiah, "There were shepherds"

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The Baroque Period
Vocal
Oratorio

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Handel: Messiah, "Halleluia" Chorus

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The Baroque Period
Vocal
Oratorio

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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, la primavera, first movement

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The Baroque Period
Concerto

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Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Number 2

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The Baroque Period
Concerto Grosso

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Bach: The Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus III

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The Baroque Period
Fugue

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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

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Classical Period
Vocal
Opera

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Mozart: Piano Concerto Number 17 in G, K.453

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The Classical Period
Concerto