Details Title: Baroque (1600-1750) Description: Noonkester Total Flash Cards: 18 Created: 07/14/2009 10:48:06		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Music Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term baroque Definition bizzare; music is very ornimented Term **terraced dynamics** Definition abrupted change from loud(forte) to soft(piano) or visa versa EXAMPLE: La Primavera concerto for violin and string orchestra Op. 8, No. 1 from "The Four Seasons" Term **basso continuo** Definition baroque accompaniment made up two instruments playing bass line; usually viola d'gamba and keyboard EXAMPLE: all except Organ Fugue in G minor Term figured bass Definition short hand for chord structure; numbers under the staff used to tell a performer what cord to play Term Montiverdi Definition one of the first great opera composers Italian composed ORFEO Term **concerto grosso** Definition composition where an orchestra is pitted against a small group of soloist EXAMPLE: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major - J.S. Bach Term **fugue** Definition polyphonic composition based on ONE main theme(subject) EXAMPLE: Organ Fugue in G minor - J.S. Bach Term Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Definition set of prelude and fuges written in every major and minor key. 48 total written to teach his wife and children how to play the clavier Term libretto Definition N:book with the story line of the opera M:text of an opera Term **recitative** Definition speech like singing, usually leads into an aria Term **aria** Definition song for solo voice and orchesta accompaniment, usually espesses emotion with outpouring of melody-opera oratorios and cantatas; lead in by a recitative EXAMPLE: Tu se' morta" from Orfeo Term da capo aria Definition aria in ABA'. the last a is more ornimented Term overture Definition orchestral introduction before the opera begins; sets the mood for an opera Term J.S. Bach Definition Lutherian church musican German very fine keyboard player and teacher Term chorale Definition hymn tune sung to a German text Term G.F. Handel Definition master of Italian opera and English oratorio German nearly blind he still conducted and gave concerts moved to London wealthy and famous at death Term **oratorio** Definition large scale composition for chorus, vocal solist, and accompanist(usually orchestra). no costumes, acting, scenery. usually a narrative text usually bibically based Term Vivaldi Definition figure of late Italian baroque Italian-born in Venice priest but left poor health red hair led to nickname "Red Priest" voilin teacher player and conductor