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| A vocal number sung or as a duet with orchestra in work such as an opera, oratorio, or vocal cantata |
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| A cross between the declamatory style of recitative and the lyric style called "aria". |
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| A male singer who was castrated before puberty in order to maintain a soprano |
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| Comes from the Portuguese language, "barroco" refers to a pearl of irregular shape. |
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| Calls for the composers to diverse musical forces, such as choruses combines with an ensemble of brasses in the same piece. toward a common purpose, as opposed to one basic timbre, most often human voices. |
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| Is one aesthetic ideal that draws on the notion that the arts should move the emotions, so the artist |
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| Means "to contend", its is an instrumental work for soloist or groups of soloist and orchestras. |
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| Means "large concerto"; it is an instrumental work that requires many solo instrumentalist rather than just one, and orchestra |
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| A distinctive polyphonic line that recurrently accompanies the subject of a fugue in another voice. |
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| The first section of a fugue (or a sonata-form first movement) |
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| Diversionary music in a fugue that often appears to wander, since all the melodic lines start to move freely and the tonality constantly modulates |
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| Means "forward spinning"; a motivic technique that makes the melody of a work seem almost endless just as one instrumentalist melodic |
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| A polyphonic composition for an established number of voices, built on a single principal theme called the subject, since all the parts are based on the same material |
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| Dramatic vocal music for solo voice with basso continuo accompaniment |
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| Term used for a large, self contained section within a larger work, such as a concerto |
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| A dramatic work of art presented in music: thought of initially as a string of musical works performed one right after another which, taken together, tell a complete story |
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| A large scale composition for soloist, chorus, and orchestra that tells a story, much like an opera |
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| A sizable work for small orchestras, chorus, and either sacred or secular. |
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| An ornament comprised of quick runs up and down scales, often heard during the singing of Baroque Opera |
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| When the same note is sung over and over in rapid succession, a Baroque style ornament |
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| Instrumental music associates with and extra-musical idea or story |
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| A Baroque form that utilizes the recurrences of ritornello theme: the orchestral material that is introduced at the beginning of a movement of a work such as a concerto |
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| Relating to or belonging to the ancient Greeks and Romans or their cultures: a term that implies a model of excellence to be emulated |
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| A cord that is played one note after another in succession, each other ascending or descending, rather than simultaneously |
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| Closing material that is usually less distinct other themes in a piece: sometimes consisting of only descending scales or chords. |
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| A transitional passage: in sonata form, a modulating passage that moves from the tonic key to a second key, connecting to the main themes |
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| Means "tail"; a musical section placed the end of a piece or movement |
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| An Aria in ABA form, which results from he opening A section sung da capo at the end |
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| The practice of manipulating themes and motives in various ways |
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| The first section of a fugue or a sonata-form movement |
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| A cession of counting; to hold a note or chord longer than the noted time value |
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| A detached emotional music style favored in the in the enlightenment, that looks outward to society and is anxious to please. |
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| Loud typically began an overture. |
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| A relatively short piece of music that is performed between longer movements of an extended composition such as an opera |
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| A musical section added to the beginning of a piece or a movement that does not represent part of the described form such as sonata form |
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| The last section of a sonata-form movement in which all of the thematic material of the exposition returns in their original order. |
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| A multimovement work for one or more instruments; at least one is in sonata form. |
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A genre usually having these characteristics
-instruments only
-lofty musical ambition
-abstract subject
-concrete story lines |
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| A two-part musical form with different sections indicated: AB |
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| A form that consists of a theme followed by a series of variations on it |
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| Rhythms that work at cross purposes with the prevailing meter; a rhythmic alteration of two notes in the place of three notes in the place of two |
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