Survey 3

Fundamental bass, root movement, Keys, cadential patterns,

German organ tradition who puts on Abendmusiken concerts

Purcell

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

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

Italian or Latin

Basso continuo

Staged

Soloist v. Orchestra

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

One singer with simple/light accompaniment

An expressive composition technique with a repeating bass line

2 treble instruments performed with basso continuo

Prolific composer of latin oratorios

Treble v. bass

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

Quinault

Descending Tetrachords

Instrumental refrains used to set the key

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

Sriggio

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

Librettist for french opera with Lully

Voices and instruments can work together equally

Full ensemble in a concerto grosso

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

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

Published 8 collections of music, mostly for domestic music making

Continous, non-sectional counterpoint, lots of imitation

Staged

What is your topic for the Essay?

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

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

Imitative improvisatory piece

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

The text to an Opera

Recitative includes a fancier accomp.

Main theme transposed a fifth

Concertino v. Ripieno (big v. little)

An expressive composition technique with no repeats

Italian

No Overture

Composer who used older composition technique and became famous after death

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

Group of soloists in a concerto grosso

Order of Dance Suites

16th Century Opera

Three part, ABA Overture form

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

Two part, AB

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

Inventor of Concerto with F-S-F

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

Lully, Rameau

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

17th century Opera

French

Caccini, Peri, Montereverdi, Scarlatti

To be sung. Generic collection of solo arias

Ground bass, Lament bassline

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

Dido & Aeneas

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

Main theme of a fugue that can appear augmented

Music performed between acts of a play

Group seeking manner in which Greek tragedy was performed and recreated

Unstaged

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

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

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

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

4+ movements with dance names. Binary forms

English genre of entertainment that involved stage music and dancing

A rhapsodic, improv piece

5 acts with a divertissement (ballet scene)

Composer that bridges between the Renaissance and Baroque Era

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

Royal Organist known for blending French and Italian styles

a time when no voice has a statement of the subject

The only person allowed to compose french opera

Tate

Carissimi

Staged

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

over dotting

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

Recitative and aria alternate. 5 Acts

Scripture

Close succession of Subject/Counter-subject between voices

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

The entrance of each voice in a fugue

Compositions centered around contrast

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

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

A time of bizarre, overly detailed art and music

A sacred concert work derived from Italian sacred Opera

Acts and Opera end with a closing chorus

Key related dance inspired movements for entertainment

English

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