MH Exam 3 Terms

Baroque

1600-1750; Focus on moving the affections; TONALITY!

High Baroque

Drama/ Dramatic Music

Affections

Monteverdi and Artusi Controversy

Prima pratica and seconda pratica

Prima practica was the old way of counterpoint and harmony and seconda practica is using dissonances to convey the text

Rules of counterpoint

Basso continuo

Figured bass

Realization

Theorbo

Centrality of performance and performer

Ornamentation and Ornaments

Concertato style/medium (stile concertato)

Florentine Camerata

Monody

accompanied solo singing of the 16th and 17th centuries

Development of opera

Libretto

text of an opera

Recitative

Aria

Arioso

Ritornello(what is it,how was it used in opera and intrumental)

Oratorio

Lamenting Bass

Keyboard improvisatory music

Sequences

Idiomatic

Louis XIV

Tragedie en musique (french opera from italian)

french form of opera combining classical french drama, ballet, song tradition, new form of recitative

English recitative

Ground Bass

Plot of Dido and Aneas

Da capo aria

Castrati

Ritornello form

Opedale della Pieta

Types of Concerto, typical three movements

Leipzig town council/ St. Thomas School

Lutheran Church cantata

Chorale-

Cantus firmus-

Public performance and patronage