Chapters 10-13
Terms
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- tutti
- the full orchestra or full performing force
- cantata
- a term originally meaning "something sung";
- monody
- a general term connoting solo singing accompanied by a basso continuo in the early Baroque period
- chamber music
- music, usually instrumental music, performed in a small concert hall or private residence with just one performer on each part
- organ fuge in g minor
- JS Bach, cadenza on harpsichord
- i want to die
- Barbara Strozzi - chamber cantata
- secco recitative
- with bass continuo (dry) vocalist & chords & bass only
- the seasons - the spring
- Antonio Vivaldi, concerto grosso
- basso ostinato
- a motive or phrase in the bass that is repeated again and again
- fugue
- a composition for three, four, or five parts played or sung by voices or instruments; begins with a presentation of a subject in imitation in each part and continues with modulation passages of free counterpoint and further appearances of the subject
- texture
- the density and disposition of the musical lines that make up a musical composition; monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic are the primary musical textures
- chamber cantata
- a cantata performed before a select audience in a private residence; intimate vocal chamber music, principally of teh Baroque area
- ostinato
- a musical figure, motive, melody, harmony or rhythm that is repeated again and again
- toccata
- a one-movement composition, free in form, originally for solo keyboard but later for instrumental ensemble as well
- terrance dynamics
- a term used to describe the sharp, abrupt dynamic contrasts found in the music of the Baroque era; a sudden jump in volume
- cadenza
- a showy passage for the soloist appearing near the end of the movement in a cencerto; usually incoporates rapid runs, arpeggios, and snippets of previously heard themes into a fantasy-like improvisation
- binary form
- a musical form consisting of two units (A and B) constructed to balance and complement each other
- form
- the purposeful organisation of the artist's materials; in music, the general shape of a composition as perceived by the listener
- 6 genres of Baroque music
- opera, chamber cantata, overture, sonata, concerto, concerto grosso
- monophony
- a musical texture involving only a single line of music with no accompaniment
- ground bass
- the English term for basso ostinato
- aria
- an elaborate lyrical song for solo voice - song
- acompagnoto recitative
- recitative accompanied with a with full orchestra
- bass continuo
- bass & chords(harpsichord and cello) a small ensemble of at least two instruments who provide a foundation for the melody or melodies above; heard almost exclusively in Baroque music
- concerto
- an instrumental genre in which one or more soloists play with and against a larger orchestra
- libretto
- the text of an opera
- binary form
- a musical form consisting of two units (A and B) constructed to balance and complement each other
- concertino
- the group of instruments that function as soloists in a concerto grosso; 3 or 4 soloists
- simple recitative
- recitative accompanied only by a basso continuo or harpsichord, and not the full orchestra
- dido and aenas, when i am laid in earth
- Henry Purcell, aria
- virtuoso
- one soloist. very good at what he does; great, fantastic
- sonata
- a multi-movement work for solo instrument, or instrument with keyboard accompaniment
- concerto grosso
- a multi-movement concerto of the Baroque era that pits the small group of soloists (the concertino) against that of the full orchestra (the tutti); more than one soloist
- arioso
- a style of singing and a type of song midway between an aria and a recitative
- melodic sequence
- the repetition of a musical motive at successively higher or lower degrees of the scale
- dynamics
- the various levels of volume, loud and soft, at which sounds are produced in a musical composition
- homophony
- a texture in which all the voices, or lines, move to new pitches at roughly the same time; often referrred to in contradistinction to polyphony
- recitative
- musically heightened speech, often used in an opera, oratorio, or cantata to report dramatic action and advance plot - talks
- opera
- a dramatic work in which the actors sing some or all of their parts; it usually makes use of the elaborate stage sets and costumes
- polyphony
- a musical texture involving two or more simultaneously sounding line; the lines are often independent and create counterpoint
- ritornello form
- a short musical passage in a Baroque concerto grosso invariably played by the tutti; all or part of the theme -the ritornello- returns again and again
- overture
- an introductory movement, usually for orchestra, that precedes an opera, oratorio, or dance suite
- counterpoint
- the harmonious opposition of two or more independent musical lines
- chamber sonata
- a Baroque sonata with dance movements