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Music 103 Ch. 12-15 Pt.2
The Baroque Era
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Music
Undergraduate 1
04/06/2010

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Bel Canto means:
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Beautiful Singing
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The term "---" became common as preference changes from preferring castrati to the virtuoso female voice
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Prima Donna
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A new form of opera set to familiar, cateny tunes of the days, and were very funny
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Ballad Opera
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Main developer of the oratorio
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George Frederick Handel
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Multi-movement dramatic vocal work on a religious subject; similar to opera but based on religious story
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Oratorio
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Handel's --- is the most famous oratorio and was composed in about three weeks
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Messiah
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Bach was a man of the ---, while Handel was a man of the ---
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Church
Theatre
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Composed nearly 200 dramatic vocal works (many were cantatas), had 20 children, and lived from 1685-1750
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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The --- and --- were the most popular instruments in the Baroque era
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Harpsichord
Organ
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Abrupt dynamic change introduced during the Baroque
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Terraced Dynamics
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Brief keyboard piece that may be either independent composition or an intro to another piece
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Prelude
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Melody that is close to spoken inflection; usually narrow range of pitch
(Recitative/Aria)
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Recitative
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Melody designed to express emotion and display the singing voice
(Recitative/Aria)
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Aria
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Rhythm that is usually free and flexible
(Recitative/Aria)
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Recitative
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Metered rhythm
(Recitative/Aria)
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Aria
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Form that is flexible, and adapted to text
(Recitative/Aria)
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Recitative
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Form that follows a formal design
(Recitative/Aria)
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Aria
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Homophonic texture
(Recitative/Aria)
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Both Recitative and Aria
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Keyboard or orchestra accompaniment
(Recitative/Aria)
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Recitative
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Orchestra Accompaniment
(Recitative/Aria)
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Aria
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Short and spectocular dramas that were used to entertain the audience between acts of plays
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Intermedii
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--- showed that a soloist could express text clearly and dramatically while singing beautiful music
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Monody
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The early operas (c.1600) were (more/less) elaborate that the intermedii
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