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Baroque Period of Music
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12/06/2012

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Artusi-Monteverdi controversy
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Artusi, a conservative composer, thought Monteverdi's music was awfully composed because of traditional counterpoint and harmony (prima pratica). Monteverdi composed for the text (seconda pratica).
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seconda pratica
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Monteverdi's method of composing based on the text.
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baroque
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the art, architecture, and music of the period 1600-1750. dervied from the word barroco meaning pearl of irregular shape (rough bold sound in music with excessive ornamentation.)
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doctrine of affections
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belief that musical moods could and should be used to influence the emotions, or affections, of the listeners. relates to the idea of greeks, music can move the soul.
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monody
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Solo madrigals, solo arias, and solo recitatives (solo vocal music.)
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basso continuo
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a bass line tha tprovided a never-ending foundation for the meoldy
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figured bass
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numerical shorthand placed with the bass line that tells the player which unwritten notes to fill in above the written bass note
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opera
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means "work" a dramatic work or play set to music
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libretto
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The text that conveys the story of the opera
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Florentine Camerata
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1570's discussion of the nature of ancient Greek music
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stile rappresentativo
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dramatic style, theater style, vocal expression between song and speech
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recitative
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musically heightened speech, tells the audience what has happened
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arioso
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halfway between a recitative and a full-blown aria, fewer repeating pitches, more rhythmically elastic
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aria
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italian for song, more florid, more expansive, and more melodious, more melismas
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Giulio Caccini
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a composer rival of Peri,wrote Le nuove Musica
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Le nuove musiche
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described techniques for singing with ornamentations
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trillo
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repeating percussive effect placed on a single pitch
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gruppo
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a trill
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toccata
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a instrumental piece for keyboard or other instruments, technical dexterity required. Orfeo opens with a toccata
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Year Peri produced Orfeo (first opera)
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1600
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Orfeo
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son of Apollo falls in love with a human, Euridice, who dies, He goes into hades to save her
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Barbara Strozzi
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escort and composer of vocal pieces
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cantata
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a song
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basso ostinato
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a bass line that insistently repeats
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chaconne
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a bass melody
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passacaglia
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a bass melody
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ground bass
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Girolamo Frescobaldi
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Fiori musicale
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Organ Mass
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toccata
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ricercar
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subject
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countersubject
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tonal answer
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Arcangelo Corelli
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solo sonata
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trio sonata
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trio sonata da chiesa
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trio sonata da camera
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binary form
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phrygian cadence
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Antonio Vivaldi
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solo concerto
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concerto grosso
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ripeno
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concertino
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ritornello form
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fortspinning
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orchestra
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baroque suite (4 movements and order)
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
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Vingt-quatre violins du roi (twenty four violins of the kind)
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academie royale de musique (Royal Academy of Music)
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tragedie lyrique
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divertissement
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French overture
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ballet de cour
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air de cour
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Armide
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François Couperin (1668-1733)
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L’Art de toucher le clavecin (The Art of Playing the Harpsichord, 1716)
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clavecin
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ordre
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character piece (p. 336)
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rondeau (form)
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refrain
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couplet
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agréments
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notes inégales
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Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
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Traité de l’harmonie (Treatise on Harmony, 1722)
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Interpretation of Harpsichord music
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Henry Purcell
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Dido and Aeneas
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ground bass
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masque
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semi-opera
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George Frideric Handel
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Oratorio
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opera seria
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Purcell composed __ Operas.
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Handel and the Royal Academy of Music
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castrato singers
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Handel's Messiah
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
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Bach Werke Verzeichnis (BWV)
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The Well-Tempered Clavier (WTC)
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equal temperament
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picardy third
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fugue
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subject
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countersubject
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episode
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chorale cantata
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[passion]
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[collegium musicum]
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Orgelbuchlein
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Well-Tampered Clavier
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equal temperament
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chorale cantata
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No women sang in Bach's choir because...
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St. Thomas church in Leipzig when Bach directed
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