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21 Cards in this Set
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TERMS: Baroque |
tonality is created use of more elaborate musical ornamentation actually a term coined to reflect how stupidly extravagant everything was |
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TERMS: Basso Continuo |
a characteristic of Baroque Music bass part that runs continuously throughout a work ALSO CALLED: throughbass |
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TERMS: dance suite |
formalization of the Renaissance practice of coupling dances together to provide contrast |
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TERMS: allemande |
German Quadruple meter moderate tempo |
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TERMS: courante |
French triple meter moderate tempo |
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Spanish stately triple meter |
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TERMS: gigue |
English lively compound meter |
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TERMS: figured bass |
the bass part in Baroque compositions marked to indicate the harmonies that should go with each note |
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TERMS: forms |
the structure of a composition based on repetition, contrast and variation
binary: 2-part structure (A-B) usually repeated and ends with a cadence rounded binary: 3-part structure (A-B-A) ternary: 3-part structure (A-B-A) *basically rounded binary |
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TERMS: ground bass |
a bass part that recurs over and over while the melody on top changes continuously |
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TERMS: libretto |
the words of the text in an oratoria also the printed version |
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TERMS: terraced dynamics |
a rapid shift in volume levels from soft to loud and back (no gradual crescendos or decrescendos) |
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TERMS: homophonic texture |
a style of composition with one distinct melody the voice and accompaniments move together in same rhythmic pattern |
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TERMS: the Affections |
a theory that arose during the Baroque era prescribed the use of certain musical methods and figures to elicit/portray certain emotions ex) slow movement and minor keys = sadness |
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INDIVIDUALS: Florentine Camerata |
A camerata is a salon a group of writers, artists and musicians OBJECTIVE: recreate ancient Greek drama INNOVATION: monody (solo voice with accompaniment) LED THE WAY TO THE CREATION OF OPERA |
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PUBLICATIONS: Le Nuove Musiche |
AUTHOR: Giulio Caccini A treatise providing examples of monody |
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TERMS: Monody |
a new musical texture developed by the Florentine Camerata songs that are to written to be performed by a solo voice with instrumental accompaniment |
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TERMS: stile rappresentativo |
a style of singing developed in early Italian operas more expressive than speech, less melodious than song a dramatic recitative style |
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INSTRUMENTS:
clavichord |
keyboard instrument that produced unusual tones strings are struck with tiny metal hammers A metal tangent exerts pressure on the strings |
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INSTRUMENTS: clavier |
any kind of keyboard instrument |
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INSTRUMENTS: harpsichord |
keyboard instrument tones produced by quills plucking the strings could not sustain notes |
