Culture and Values 14-15
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- Opera
- A dramatic performance in which the text is sung rather than spoken
- Linear perspective
- A system of perspective in which all parallel lines converge at a single vanishing point
- Galleria
- (In a Baroque Palace) Formal reception fall
- Picaresque novel
- Novel telling a story involving a rogue or adventurer
- Curia
- The body of tribunals and assemblies through which the pope governed the church
- Counterpoint
- Two or more distinct melodic lines sung or played at the same time
- Piazza
- The Italian word for a city square or market place
- Harpsichord
- Keyboard instrument, the forerunner of the modern piano
- Sonata
- In the seventeenth sentury, a short instrumental pieve. Over time, the term came to be used for an instrumental piece in several movements
- Woodcut
- A work produced by cutting away parts of a wooden block, which is then inked and printed
- Chorale prelude
- Piece of instrumental music that uses a familiar hymn or sacred song as the bais of an improvisation
- Metaphysical
- Term used (confusingly) to describe a group of seventeenth-century English poets
- Materialism
- Belief that nothing exists except material things
- Chanson
- Popular French son
- Chiaroscuro
- In painting, extreme contrasts between dark and light
- Fugue
- Piece of music in which the same themes are repeated and combined in counterpoint
- Movement
- In music, a self-contained section of a longer work
- Toccata
- An instrumental composition combining extreme technical complexity and dramatic expression
- Induction
- A system of reasoning that start from a specific case and tries to use it to establish a general theory
- Logarithm
- Table of mumbers that sumlifies mathematical calculation by sunstituting addition and subtraction for multiplication and division
- Cantata
- Short oratorios, alternating arias and recitative
- Index
- List of forbidden books that was issued by the Catholic Church
- Triptych
- Painting consisting of three separate panels
- Burin
- Sharp-pointed steel instrument used for incising the line for an engraving
- Essay
- A short literary work, generally in prose, dealing with a specific topic
- Concerto grosso
- A composition for orchestra, generally in three movements: fast-slow-fast
- Anabaptists
- Radical Reformers who insisted on adult baptism even for those who had been baptized in infancy (the word means "those baptized again")
- Ground, Groundings
- The part a an Elizabethan theater where the spectators stood, These poorer member of the audience became known as the groundlings. The ground was sometimes called the pit.
- Soliloquy
- Speech made by characters in a play who utter their thoughts aloud, without addressing them to any other character
- Ayers
- Simple English songs written for one singer and accompaniment
- Aria
- A solo song in an opera, oratorio, or cantata, which often gives the singer a chance to display technical skill
- Chorale variation
- Piece of instrumental musica consisting of a set of variations on a familiar hymn or sacred song
- Recitative
- The free declaration of a vocal line, with only a simple instrumental accompaniment for support. The inventors of opera, who though they were reviving ancient Greek tragedy, used the Greek term: monody
- Anthem
- A musical composition written for choir (sometimes with colo voices added), the text of which is in English
- Engraving
- Proess of incising lines on a copper plate, which is then printed to produce an impression (itself also known as engraving)
- Indulgences
- Forgiveness of sins in return for prayer, good works, and/or money
- Thesis
- Academic proposition that seeks to prove the truth of a statement
- Kantor
- Music director of a church choir (and often of a school attached to the church)
- Virginal
- Early keyboard instrument small enough to by placed on a table
- Oratorio
- Sacred drama performed without action, scenery, or costume, generally in a church or concert hall