Music History I Terminology List For Exam Iii

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Accompanied Recitatative

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Recitative that uses orchestral accompaniment to dramatize the text.

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Act

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Main division of an Opera. Most operas have 2-5 acts

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Affections

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Objectified or archtypal emotions or states of mind.

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Air de Cour

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Type of song for voice and accompianiment, prominent in france

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Allemande

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Highly stylized dance in binary form, in moderatly fast quadruple meter, popular during the Renaissance and baroque

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Aria

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an italian strophic poem for a singer

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Arioso

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Short Aria like passage

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Belletto, Ballett

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16th century italian song genre, homophonic style with repeated sections and "fa-la-la" refrains

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Baroque

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musical history period from 1600 to about 1750. from portuguese "misshapen pearl"

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Basso Continuo

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"continuous bass" system of notation

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Branle Gay

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Renaissance dance in lively triple meter

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Camerata

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"circle" or "association" circle of intelectualls and amateurs of the arts that met in florance in late 1500's

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Cantillation

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chantin of a sacred text by a solo singer, particularly in the Jewish synagogue

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Canzona

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16th century genre, an instrumental work adapted from a chanson.

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Canzonetta, Canzonet

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16th century italian song genre in a simple mostly homophonic style

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Cappriccio

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Baroque period, a fugal piece in continuous imatative counterpoint

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Chaconne

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consists of variations over a basso continuo

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Choral Prelude

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Short setting for organ of a choral melody, used as intro for congregational singing or as an interlude in a lutheran chruch service

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Choral Varitaions

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A set aof variations on a choral melody

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Concertato Medium

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the compoination of voices with 1 or more instruments where the instruments play independent parts

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consort

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for a group of instruments can be either full of broken consort

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consort song

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renaissance english genre for voice accompianed by consort of viols

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Cornett

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made of wood or ivory, fingerholes and cup mouthpiece, blown like a brass instrument

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Crumhorn

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reniassance wind instrument with double reed enclosed in a cap so lips dont touch