Intro to Music: Chapter 7
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- Define Basso Continuo
- a set of chords continuously underlying the melody in a piece of Baroque music
- Ground Bass
- an "osinato" in the bass
- Ostinato
- a motive, phrase, or theme repeated over and over
- What system was developed by Baroque Musicians
- Minor and Major System
- Define Opera
- drama presented in music with the characters singing instead of speaking
- Recitative
- the technique of declaring words musically in a heightened, theatrical manner.
- Aria
- an extended piece for a solo singer that has much more elaboration and coherance than a recitative
- Dance "suites"
- groups of dances that could be played by an orchestra and enjoyed apart from and actual stage performance
- Virtuosity
- the second source from which composers of instrumental music drew- much left to improvisation, but was beginning to be natated
- Fugue
- a composition written systematically in imitative polyphony, usually with a single main theme, the subject
- Varations
- Sectional pieces in which each section repeats certain musical elements while others change around them
- What are the approximate years of the Baroque Period?
- 1600-1750
- What are some characteristics of the Baroque Period?
- rise of instrumental music, solo voice more important than vocal polyphony, clear rhythms, major and minor tonality
- Ostinato bass
- persistan or obstinate bass, short musical gesture repeated over and over again, in the bass or anywhere else, especially one used as a building block for a piece of music
- Monody
- single melody line with accompaniment
- Functional Harmony
- every chord serves a function- tolead the listener back to the central tone or tonic
- Baroque used more use of _________ and ________ to express the text. The main concern being the meaning and how it affected the listeners
- chromaticism and dissonance
- Baroque period was centered around what country?
- Italy