A History Of Western Music Test - Chapters 10-15

Front 1

Earliest Opera plots based on...

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Greek Mythology

Front 2

Recitative

Back 2

Speech style of music

Front 3

Castrati

Back 3

Male singers who have been castrated; Highly paid

Front 4

Ritornelli

Back 4

Refrain

Front 5

Repeating bass line

Back 5

Bassi Ostinato (Ground Bass)

Front 6

Cantata

Back 6

Piece meant to be sung

Front 7

Barbara Strozzi

Back 7

Known for her cantatas. 100 works

Front 8

Oratorios

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Sacred pieces of music, often with narrator

Front 9

Toccata

Back 9

Playing fast on keyboard, improv style

Front 10

Passion

Back 10

Musical setting for the last days of Christ

Front 11

Affections

Back 11

Emotions through music

Front 12

Baroque

Back 12

Excessive ornamentations, embellishments in music

Front 13

Sinfonia

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Abstract ensemble piece

Front 14

Fantasy

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Fugal pieces in continuous imitative counterpoint

Front 15

Calvinists/Pescetarian

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Followers of John Calvin

Front 16

Palestrina

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Saved polyphony by making it intelligible

Front 17

Council of Trent

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Committee to implement reformation

Front 18

Contra Factum

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New melody to old music

Front 19

Libretto

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Text in an Opera

Front 20

Arioso

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Singing style midway between arias and recitatives

Front 21

First Opera House

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Opened in Venice and named Teatro San Cassiano

Front 22

Chori Specialti

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Divided Choir

Front 23

Sacred Concerto

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Sacred vocal work with instruments

Front 24

Virginalist

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Harpsichord

Front 25

Madrigal

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Poetic form in a musical setting

Front 26

Equal Temperament

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Allows you to play in all twelve keys

Front 27

Realization

Back 27

Performing music with incomplete notation with figured bass