Survey 3

Inventor of Concerto with F-S-F

A sacred composition, for a lutheran service, including solo, choir, and instruments.

The text to an Opera

An expressive composition technique with or without ritornello. Written in ABA

Instrumental refrains used to set the key

Composer and violinist who spent most of his career teaching and writing at a girls' orphanage

Librettist for french opera with Lully

Newer, freer, More expressive, text- driven harmonies (not a slave to the rules)

Three part, ABA Overture form

Composer that bridges between the Renaissance and Baroque Era

Treble v. bass

Tate

Beloved German composer of opera, cantatas, concerto and known for cosmopolitan style

Quinault

17th century modern style of sacred music associated with freshness (ex. monody, basso continuo)

Imitative improvisatory piece

Settings of religious texts that incorporate basso continuo, concertato, monody, and opera forms

2 treble instruments performed with basso continuo

Older; Renaissance- style, ("Zarlino") counterpoint

Simple basso continuo accompaniment to support singer, but not overshadow move to orchestral accomp.

Two "acts" within each section, alternate between recitative and aria with a sermon in between two sections

Ground bass, Lament bassline

4 movements. S-F-S-F, with tempo designations

A sacred concert work derived from Italian sacred Opera

Speech like singing following natural flow of text with simple, steady accompaniment

A pattern appearing in the bass that repeats while the melody changes

Soloist v. Orchestra

Main theme of a fugue that can appear augmented

16th Century Opera

Caccini, Peri, Montereverdi, Scarlatti

A cycle of songs that were united by text or other features that were the origins of opera

5 acts with a divertissement (ballet scene)

Royal Organist known for blending French and Italian styles

Close succession of Subject/Counter-subject between voices

What is your topic for the Essay?

Full ensemble in a concerto grosso

A rhapsodic, improv piece

Italian

Scripture

Published 8 collections of music, mostly for domestic music making

English

The only person allowed to compose french opera

AB, A is a homophobic march in duple meter, B is an imitative piece in triple Overture form

Acts and Opera end with a closing chorus

To be sung. Generic collection of solo arias

Composer who used older composition technique and became famous after death

Continous, non-sectional counterpoint, lots of imitation

An expressive composition technique with a repeating bass line

Sriggio

Written by Couperin as a treatise on performance practice for keyboard music

An expressive composition technique with no repeats

English genre of entertainment that involved stage music and dancing

The entrance of each voice in a fugue

German organ tradition who puts on Abendmusiken concerts

Recitative and aria alternate. 5 Acts

Order of Dance Suites

Staged

Staged

Instrumental composer who uses lyrical, smooth tone with suspensions and sequences

Cosmopolitan Composer who travels all his life and Italian opera in England

Purcell

Voices and instruments can work together equally

First time having group discipline, unified bowing, doubling of parts

A series of solo and group dances, interspersed with vocal numbers, all loosely organized around a theme but not a story

Lully, Rameau

Often a succession of brief sections played for religious services on keyboard

a time when no voice has a statement of the subject

Italian or Latin

17th century Opera

Variation of the main theme of a fugue that can appear in inversion, imitation, or stretto

Helped elevated instrumental music to be equal to voice, writes a treaties about performances practice keyboard

Music performed between acts of a play

Philosophic idea about what makes music good, arousing the humors, and bringing about emotion

No Overture

Compositions centered around contrast

Dido & Aeneas

Recitative includes a fancier accomp.

An expressive composition technique with or without ritornello. Written in Verse, Chorus

Descending Tetrachords

Key related dance inspired movements for entertainment

Carissimi

A time of bizarre, overly detailed art and music

Unstaged

Staged

Group of soloists in a concerto grosso

Usually two players, one stringed instrument on melody, one keyboard on harmony. Performers fill in inner chords

Two part, AB

Group seeking manner in which Greek tragedy was performed and recreated

Prolific composer of latin oratorios

Basso continuo

over dotting

French

Recurring patterns of strong and weak beats, dividing musical time into recurring units. Focus on points in time

Concertino v. Ripieno (big v. little)

Old style of sacred music associated with age and tradition (ex. Palestrina counterpoint)

Fundamental bass, root movement, Keys, cadential patterns,

4+ movements with dance names. Binary forms

One singer with simple/light accompaniment

Main theme transposed a fifth

Measured rhythm, repetition, but no large sectional repeats. Lyrical but not virtuosic, through composed