MH II 1
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- Baroque
- deformed pearl
- patronage
- arts created fro courts(elite only) and the church(open to everyone)
- late renaissance
- foreshadows baroque music
- Claudio Monteverdi
- brought on transition to baroque music, emphasis on affection and tonic dominant relationships
- Giovanni Artusi
- disliked monteverdi
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Prima practica
Seconda Practica -
old way of writing music, counterpoint
new style of music - affections
- goal of the composer to express a wide range of emotions and feelings
- rhythms
- became regular and free
- basso continuo
- bass line is performed by one or more players who add chords above the line using established set of principles often notated by figured bass
- figured bass
- system of shorthand notation for keyboard players
- realization
- writing out of figured bass numbers
- continuo
- usually played by two people, one plays the realized chords,while the other reinforces the bass
- dissonance
- anything not part of the chord
- chromaticism
- use of chromatic scales and inflections
- major-minor tonalities
- set of extremes
- opera
- combines text, scenery, drama, and music
- intermedi or intermezzi
- intermission, mini musical within a play
- madrigal cycles
- tied madrigals together to form a story
- pastoral
- italian dram which tells of fairytales
- ancient greek tragedies
- idealized drama of late renaissance with the notion of setting an entire play to music
- florentine camerata
- responsible for the creation or popularism of opera
- First opera
- Dafne, Jacopo Peri
- monody
- single melodic part instead of a colloboration of various parts
- stile recitativo
- type of melody which is half sung and half spoken with a simple chordal accompaniment
- Euridice
- opera composed for marriage of henry IV and maridice
- Antonio Cesti
- started bel canto
- bel canto
- beautiful singing, smooth style of singing with diatonic lines and easy rhythms which is gratifying to the singing
- vocal chamber music
- could be performed at home
- concertato medium
- joining instrumentalists and vocalists as a unified and contrasting ensemble
- aria
- accompanied solo song usually with some length or complexity as found in an opera, oratorio, or contata
- contata
- short piece, basso continuo accampinement, based on a secular text
- polychoral motets
- ensemble divided into 2-3 groups performing singlely as well as jointly together
- grand concertos
- work for massive groups of instruments and singers with text; not staged
- oratorio
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not opera because
1.)biblical
2.)not staged
3.)emphasis on the choruses - Jean baptiste lully
- italian composer
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recitatif simple
recitatif measure -
more like aria
steady beat - sonata
- piece that is same form as conzona, only with solo melodic instrument as well and a basso continuo
- tocata
- improvisitory piece for keyboard
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recitativo secco
recitativo accompaynota -
just basso continuo
full orchestra - ricercare
- brief serious composition for keyboard, in which one theme alone is continually developed in imitation
- canzona
- instrumental piece in several contrasting sections, each on different theme and fugal imitation
- variations
- presenting of theme followed by a variation of that theme
- veuns and adonis
- john blow
- singspiel
- sung play or opera, with songs and spoken dialogue
- secular contata
- short work about 15 minutes alternating recitative and arias with basso continuo
- fugue
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evolved from tocatta
dux=leader
follower=comes - equal temperment
- tuning in 1/2 steps
- chorale prelude
- organ arrangement of the chorale played before the choir sings the chorale
- suites
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allemande-fast dance
courante-hemiola feel
sarabande-slow dance
gigue-lively, triplets - french opera overture
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1. slow introduction with double dot rhythm
2. fast canzona type section