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Context:
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Incidental music
Music to be performed as part of a play
Secular
Music that is non-religous
Performing Forces:
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Continuo
Bass part played by one or more bass and/ or chordal instruments in Baroque music.
Improvisation
A line that is not notated but freely chosen by the performer.
Arpeggiated chords
A spread chord, normally from the bottom to the top
Melody and word setting:
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Ornaments
notes that decorate a melody
Mordent
An ornaments played as a rapid wiggle from the printed note to the note above and back.
Appoggiatura
‘leaning’ note. An expressive dissonance that moves by step to resolve onto a note of the current chord.
Word painting
How the music reflects the meaning of a word or phrase in a text
Melisma
When several notes are sung to the same syllable
Structure:
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Ground bass
A constantly repeating bass pattern above which a melody unfolds. Popular in the Baroque
Da capo aria
A song with a ternary structure (ABA)
Harmony and Tonality
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Figured bass
A basso continuo art with figures and symbols to indicate the harmonies of the music.
Dissonance
Sounds that are not pleasant when played together
Suspension
A note that is held over to a chord in which it doesn’t belong, creating a dissonance that is then resolved.
Tierce de Picardie
When a piece in a minor key ends with the tonic major chord.
Cadential 6/4
A perfect cadnce using chords IC-V-1
Chromatic
Notes that don’t belong to the key or move by semitones
Non-diatonic
Notes that don’t belong to a key.
Perfect cadence
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Texture
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Melody dominated homophony
Melody and accompaniment
Counterpoint
2 or more different lines occurring simultaneously
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