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Baroque Music
Mr. Evan's Humanity's Class
20
Art History
12th Grade
10/28/2010

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Baroque Music
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Music of the 17th and 18th centuries characterized by definite, repetitious rhythms, a strong bass line, functional harmony, even dynamics, and complex melodies. Expresses order, but is lively and cheerful
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Cantana
Definition
A composition in more than one movements for solo voices, instruments, and often a chorus (Bach)
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Chord
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A combination of three or more simultaneous notes according to the rules of harmony
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Concerto grosso
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The main Baroque type of concerto, for a group of instruments and a small orchestra revolving around the violin family (Corelli, Bach)
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Concerto
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A composition for one or sometimes more instruments brought into opposition with an orchestra
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Continuo
Definition
A set of chords continuously underlying the melody in a piece of Baroque music
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Harmony
Definition
Having to do with chords, or the "vertical" aspect of musical texture. The term "harmonic" is sometimes used to mean homophonic
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Homophony
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A musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest, accompanied by chords or other subsidiary sounds
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Madrigal
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The main secular form of vocal music of the Renaissance and early Baroque, in which various text fragments are set in imitative polyphony or in homophony
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Motive, motif
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A short fragment of melody or rhythm used in constructing a long section of music
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Opera
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A play set to music (Moneverdi, Purcell, Handel)
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Recitative
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A half-singing, half-reciting style of presenting words in opera
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Aria
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A vocal number for solo singer and orchestra in an opera
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Oratorio
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A large composition for voices and orchestra, telling a sacred story without scenery, costumes, or even a plot (Handel)
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Polyphony
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Music in which two or more melodic lines are played simultaneously
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Canon
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Strict, imitative polyphony, with the identical melody appearing in each voice at staggered intervals (Pachelbel). Rounds are unaccompanied versions of these
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Fugue
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A polyphonic composition in which a theme or themes (subject and countersubject) are stated successively by a number of voices in imitation and developed contrapuntally (Bach)
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Counterpoint
Definition
The art of writing polyphonic music
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Suite
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A group of dance tunes in various melodic forms, usually four or five movements, such as the allemande, sarabande, courante, couree, minuet, and gigue
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Variations
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Groups of progressively developed versions of a complete self-contained theme, maintaining the form of that theme although not necessarily its melody
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