Survey 3

The text to an Opera

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

4+ movements with dance names. Binary forms

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

Concertino v. Ripieno (big v. little)

Staged

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

German organ tradition who puts on Abendmusiken concerts

Scripture

Italian

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

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

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

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

Recitative and aria alternate. 5 Acts

Fundamental bass, root movement, Keys, cadential patterns,

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

Carissimi

Full ensemble in a concerto grosso

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

Basso continuo

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

Purcell

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

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

Acts and Opera end with a closing chorus

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

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Continous, non-sectional counterpoint, lots of imitation

Staged

An expressive composition technique with a repeating bass line

Imitative improvisatory piece

Composer who used older composition technique and became famous after death

The only person allowed to compose french opera

English

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

Compositions centered around contrast

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

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

Quinault

Royal Organist known for blending French and Italian styles

Soloist v. Orchestra

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

16th Century Opera

Lully, Rameau

No Overture

Music performed between acts of a play

2 treble instruments performed with basso continuo

A rhapsodic, improv piece

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

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

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

To be sung. Generic collection of solo arias

Dido & Aeneas

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

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

Three part, ABA Overture form

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

Main theme transposed a fifth

Treble v. bass

Tate

Main theme of a fugue that can appear augmented

Librettist for french opera with Lully

A sacred concert work derived from Italian sacred Opera

One singer with simple/light accompaniment

French

Key related dance inspired movements for entertainment

Unstaged

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

The entrance of each voice in a fugue

Ground bass, Lament bassline

Group seeking manner in which Greek tragedy was performed and recreated

Recitative includes a fancier accomp.

Inventor of Concerto with F-S-F

Instrumental refrains used to set the key

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

Italian or Latin

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

Two part, AB

Staged

Prolific composer of latin oratorios

17th century Opera

English genre of entertainment that involved stage music and dancing

A time of bizarre, overly detailed art and music

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

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

Sriggio

5 acts with a divertissement (ballet scene)

Close succession of Subject/Counter-subject between voices

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

Caccini, Peri, Montereverdi, Scarlatti

Composer that bridges between the Renaissance and Baroque Era

Descending Tetrachords

a time when no voice has a statement of the subject

Voices and instruments can work together equally

over dotting

Published 8 collections of music, mostly for domestic music making

Order of Dance Suites

An expressive composition technique with no repeats

Group of soloists in a concerto grosso