Studied by 2 people
Divertissement
________ occured in the middle or end of each act and provided a non- plot- related excuse to show off costumes and choreo.
Watchet
________ auf- sacred concerto containing a series of variations on chorale.
Venice
________ was the primary centre for opera.
Hype
________- english people were trying to find their identity and the arts played heavily into shaping it.
Pietists
________- distrust formality and high art in worship.
Musical monopoly
________- everyone had to write like lully for 50 years after his death.
Orthodox
________ lutherans- using all available choral and instrumental music.
Purcell
________- similar to lully's structure, overture, homophonic choruses.
Scarlatti
________ wrote a ton of cantatas.
French language
________ required pace and flow adjustments that created different styles and practices.
Recitatif simple
________- followed the contour of spoken french while shifting the time to match it.
Masque
________- shared features with opera but included spoken parts and were long, collaborative spectacles, appealed to all levels of society.
Ground bass
________- continuo bassline plays the same thing over and over (early ancestor of ostinato)
Rise of semi opera
________- somewhere between theatre and opera.
Grand motet
________- soloists, double chorus and orchestra, different meters and temposengland.
