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Baroque Period
1600-1750: The first era of Western music history in which instrumental music was a major focus for composers
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Florentine Camerata

wanted to bring back ancient greek theater resulted in opera

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opera
drama that is sung to orchestral accompaniment
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recitative
The vocal style in opera that imitates the natural inflections of speech
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aria
A highly emotional song in an opera
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Masque
A type of English entertainment combining music, poetry, and dance
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Chorales
congregational hymn of the German Lutheran church
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Oratorio
sacred vocal form; a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
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suite
a group of short dances performed by a diverse array of instruments
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fugue
The ________ is a keyboard form based on the principle of voices imitating each other.
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figured bass
musical notation, indicated chords
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basso continuo

(kept the beat) instrumentalists provide harmony

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castrato
The artificially created male soprano or alto voice that dominated Baroque opera
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overture
orchestral introduction at the beginning of an opera
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libretto
The text of an opera
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cantata

(opera with no acting and from gospel) story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio)

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lining out
In seventeeth-century New England, the Puritan practice of singing that is based on call and response
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heterophonic texture
the simultaneous performance of slight variants of the same melody
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Concerto
The instrumental form based on the contrast of two dissimilar bodies of sound
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ritornello

instrumental refrain (chorus)

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Allegro-Adagio-Allegro
3 movements from solo concerto "fast, slow, and fast"
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answer
After the first statement of the fugue subject, the second entrance of the subject is called the
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:improvisation
The Baroque performance practice whereby musicians embellished melodies is called
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program
Music that mirrors an accompanying poem is called ________ music.
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harpsichord
The ________ is a keyboard instrument whose strings are plucked by quills.
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sacred harp singing
The contemporary practice that uses shape notes is called
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heterophony
Lining-out often involved _________
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organ
The keyboard instrument that uses various sets of pipes to create contrasting colors is the
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Cozzolani

She proved that nuns could draw a big crowd Magnificat

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Barbara Strozzi

Secular Composer (morality was in question) Amor dormiglione

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Purcell

(assimilated Italian french and English style) Dido and Aeneas

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Bach
Wachet auf
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Handel
Messiah
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Billing
The New England Psalm-Singer
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Billing
David's Lamentation
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Handel
Water Music
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Vivaldi
Spring from The Four Seasons
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Bach
The Art of Fugue
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Vesper

evening of sung prayer

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Magnificat

praise of Mary