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Acts and Opera end with a closing chorus

Music performed between acts of a play

A time of bizarre, overly detailed art and music

Staged

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

German organ tradition who puts on Abendmusiken concerts

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

One singer with simple/light accompaniment

The only person allowed to compose french opera

Continous, non-sectional counterpoint, lots of imitation

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

The text to an Opera

Staged

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

Treble v. bass

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

Italian

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

Recitative includes a fancier accomp.

Basso continuo

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

over dotting

Compositions centered around contrast

Lully, Rameau

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

Recitative and aria alternate. 5 Acts

An expressive composition technique with a repeating bass line

a time when no voice has a statement of the subject

Two part, AB

Concertino v. Ripieno (big v. little)

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

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

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

Main theme transposed a fifth

No Overture

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

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

Instrumental refrains used to set the key

Group seeking manner in which Greek tragedy was performed and recreated

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

17th century Opera

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

Staged

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

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

To be sung. Generic collection of solo arias

4+ movements with dance names. Binary forms

Inventor of Concerto with F-S-F

2 treble instruments performed with basso continuo

Full ensemble in a concerto grosso

Fundamental bass, root movement, Keys, cadential patterns,

Dido & Aeneas

Voices and instruments can work together equally

Order of Dance Suites

Main theme of a fugue that can appear augmented

Scripture

Caccini, Peri, Montereverdi, Scarlatti

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

The entrance of each voice in a fugue

Unstaged

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

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

Carissimi

Quinault

Published 8 collections of music, mostly for domestic music making

Librettist for french opera with Lully

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

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

Composer that bridges between the Renaissance and Baroque Era

Descending Tetrachords

Sriggio

Three part, ABA Overture form

A rhapsodic, improv piece

English

Prolific composer of latin oratorios

Purcell

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

Ground bass, Lament bassline

Key related dance inspired movements for entertainment

French

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

Group of soloists in a concerto grosso

English genre of entertainment that involved stage music and dancing

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

Imitative improvisatory piece

Close succession of Subject/Counter-subject between voices

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

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

Soloist v. Orchestra

Royal Organist known for blending French and Italian styles

5 acts with a divertissement (ballet scene)

A sacred concert work derived from Italian sacred Opera

Italian or Latin

16th Century Opera

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

Composer who used older composition technique and became famous after death

An expressive composition technique with no repeats

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

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