Baroque Period
Terms
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- Trio Sonata
- two melody parts plus continuo
- Concerto
- for a solo intrustment and orchestra
- Suite
- series of dance movements
- Opera
- drama set to music (usually opera seria)
- Oratorio
- similiar to opera; no staging or costumes; religious text
- Ground Bass
- variation form where the bass is repeated continuously
- Da Capo Aria
- Aria in ABA form
- Binary Dance
- two part form with each section repeated
- Ritornello
- form with a reccuring theme (the ritornello)
- Fugue
- composition written in imitative polyphony with single main theme; the fugue subject