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Dance Suite
In Baroque music the suite comprised a series of dance movements. By the time of Purcell, suites were composed of four main movementscalled the allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue.
Stile Italiano
Purcell was influenced by the Italian style, which was characterised by the concertato style, the trio sonata, double dotted notes, dramatic recitatives and da capo arias.
Appoggiatura
An ornament that is often referred to as a ‘leaning in’ note. Takes half of value of main note.
Syllabic word setting
One note per syllable of a word
Word painting
Depicting a word in music to imitate its meaning.
Dissonant intervals
Minor and major second, minor and major seventh and tritone (augmented 4th or diminished 5th)
Suspension
Prolonging a note to create a dissonance (clash) with the next chord.
Tierce de Picardie
Refers to a sharpened third in the final chord in music written in a minor key. It ends on a major chord instead.
Onomatopoeic
The music setting sounds like the word, for example ‘drop’.
Da capo aria
ABA or ternary form. Often the repeated A section would be ornamented by the singer. Da Capo means ‘again from the beginning’
Arpeggiated
The chord is spread, normally from the bottom note to the top.
Obbligato
An essential melody part that must be played
Binary Form
A structure of two sections, A and B. Each section is repeated.
Cantata
The word derives from the Italian ‘cantare’ and means ‘sung’. A cantata is an extended piece in several movements comprising chorus, recitative, chorale and aria with an orchestral accompaniment.
