Music art 3

Baroque Period

Baroque Period

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

Florentine Camerata

wanted to bring back ancient greek theater resulted in opera

opera

drama that is sung to orchestral accompaniment

recitative

The vocal style in opera that imitates the natural inflections of speech

aria

A highly emotional song in an opera

Masque

A type of English entertainment combining music, poetry, and dance

Chorales

congregational hymn of the German Lutheran church

Oratorio

sacred vocal form; a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text

suite

a group of short dances performed by a diverse array of instruments

fugue

The ________ is a keyboard form based on the principle of voices imitating each other.

figured bass

musical notation, indicated chords

basso continuo

(kept the beat) instrumentalists provide harmony

castrato

The artificially created male soprano or alto voice that dominated Baroque opera

overture

orchestral introduction at the beginning of an opera

libretto

The text of an opera

cantata

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

lining out

In seventeeth-century New England, the Puritan practice of singing that is based on call and response

heterophonic texture

the simultaneous performance of slight variants of the same melody

Concerto

The instrumental form based on the contrast of two dissimilar bodies of sound

ritornello

instrumental refrain (chorus)

Allegro-Adagio-Allegro

3 movements from solo concerto "fast, slow, and fast"

answer

After the first statement of the fugue subject, the second entrance of the subject is called the

:improvisation

The Baroque performance practice whereby musicians embellished melodies is called

program

Music that mirrors an accompanying poem is called ________ music.

harpsichord

The ________ is a keyboard instrument whose strings are plucked by quills.

sacred harp singing

The contemporary practice that uses shape notes is called

heterophony

Lining-out often involved _________

organ

The keyboard instrument that uses various sets of pipes to create contrasting colors is the

Cozzolani

She proved that nuns could draw a big crowd Magnificat

Barbara Strozzi

Secular Composer (morality was in question) Amor dormiglione

Purcell

(assimilated Italian french and English style) Dido and Aeneas

Bach

Wachet auf

Handel

Messiah

Billing

The New England Psalm-Singer

Billing

David's Lamentation

Handel

Water Music

Vivaldi

Spring from The Four Seasons

Bach

The Art of Fugue

Vesper

evening of sung prayer

Magnificat

praise of Mary