Wam listening quiz for 4/10

madrigal

Fourteenth-century Italian poetic form and its musical setting having two or three stanzas followed by a RITORNELLO.

Monophony

Music or musical TEXTURE consisting of unaccompanied MELODY

Through-composed

composed throughout, as when each stanza or other unit of a poem is set to new music rather than in a strophic manner to a single melody

opera

drama with continuous or nearly continuous music, staged with scenery, costumes and action

concerto medium

in 17th century music, the combination of voices with one or more instruments, where the instruments do not simply double the voices but play independent parts

dance suite

pieces used for dancing or in stylized dance rhythms, whether independent, paired or linked together in a suite

agréments

ornament in french music, usually indicated by a sign

allemande

highly stylized dance in binary form, in moderately fast quadruple meter with almost continuous movement. beginning with an upbeat. Popular during renaissance and baroque; appearing often as the first dance in a suite.

sonata da camera (chamber sonata)

baroque instrumental work inteded for performance in church; usually in 4 mvts. slow, fast, slow, fast, and scored for one or more treble instruments and continuo.

recitatif simple

in french baroque opera, recitative that shifts frequently between duple and triple meter to allow the syllables of words that are naturally accented in speech to fall on the downbeats.

episode

A subsidiary passage between presentations of the main thematic material

basso continuo

system of NOTATION and performance practice, used in the BAROQUE PERIOD, in which an instrumental BASS line is written out and one or more players of keyboard, LUTE, or similar instruments fill in the HARMONY with appropriate CHORDS or IMPROVISED MELODIC lines

strophic

Of a poem, consisting of two or more stanzas that are equivalent in form and can each be sung to the same MELODY Of a poem, consisting of two or more stanzas that are equivalent in form and can each be sung to the same MELODY

aria

Lyrical monologue in an OPERA or other vocal work such as CANTATA and ORATORIO

antiphony

describing a manner of performance in which two or more groups alternate

sonata

GENRE in several movements for one or two solo instruments, often exploiting the idiomatic possibilities of a particular instrument

courante

A DANCE in BINARY FORM, in triple METER at a moderate tempo and with an upbeat, featured as a standard MOVEMENT of the BAROQUEDANCESUITE

ritornello form

for full ORCHESTRA that alternates with EPISODES characterized by virtuosic material played by one or more soloists

fugue

from Italian fuga, “flight”)  COMPOSITION or section of a composition in strict IMITATIVE COUNTERPOINT that is based on a single SUBJECT and begins with successive statements of the subject at contrasting pitches, usually the first and fifth scale degrees

chorale

STROPHIC HYMN in the Lutheran tradition, intended to be sung by the congregation in German

figured bass

A form of BASSO CONTINUO in which the BASS line is supplied with numbers or flat or sharp signs to indicate the appropriate INTERVALS to be played above the bass

recitative

A passage or section in an OPERA, ORATORIO, CANTATA, or other vocal work in RECITATIVE STYLE

sacred concerto

In the seventeenth century, a COMPOSITION on a sacred text for one or more singers and instrumental accompaniment

cornetto

early renaissance and baroque wind instrument

binary form

A FORM comprised of two complementary sections, each of which is repeated. The first section usually ends on the DOMINANT or the relative major, and the second section returns to the tonic. See also BALANCED, ROUNDED, and SIMPLE BINARY FORM