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- Aria form with two sections
- The first section is repeated after the second sections close, which carries the instruction da capo.
- Creates an ABA form |
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- Baroque chamber Sonata
- Usually a suite of stylized dances
- Scored for 1 or more treble instruments and continuo |
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- church sonata
- Baroque instrumental work intended for performance in church.
- Usually in four movements
- Slow-fast-slow-fast
- scored for one or more treble instruments and continuo |
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- Ensemble of instruments or voices with one or more instruments, or a work for such an ensemble.
- Composition in which one or more solo instruments contrasts with an orchestral ensemble. |
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- Instrumental work that exploits the contrast in sonority between a small ensemble of solo instruments (concertino).
- Usually the same forces that appear in the trio sonata and a large ensemble (ripieno or concerto grosso). |
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- (Town Pipers)
- Professional town musicians who had the exclusive right to provide music within city limits. |
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| - The small ensemble of instruments in the concerto grosso form. |
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- (Tower Sonata)
- A chorale or sonata played daily on wind instruments by stadtpfeifers from the tower of the town hall or church. |
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- An association of amateurs, popular during the Baroque period.
- Gathered to play and sing together for their own pleasure. |
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- Public concerts of sacred vocal music at St. Mary's Cathedral.
- Played on five sunday afternoons each year before Christmas.
- First public concert series
- Created by Buxtehude |
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- Composition or section of a composition
- In imitative texture
- Based on a single subject
- Begins with successive statements of the subject in voices. |
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- Short setting for organ of a choral melody
- Used as an introduction for congregational singing or as an interlude in a Lutheran church service. |
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- The section in a concerto for a full orchestra that alternates with the soloists episodes.
- Used as a guidepost to confirm key changes and modulations.
- Illustrated form:
Ritornello (tutti)
Episode (concertino)
Ritornello (tutti)
Episode/ Ritornello
Episode/Ritornello
Episode (concertino)
Ritornello (tutti) |
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- Vivaldi's Op. 8 entitled Il ciment dell'armonia e dell'inventione (the contest of harmony and invention).
- Consists of four violin concertos with each being named after a season.
- Each concerto consists of three movements (fast-slow-fast)
- Composed by Antonion Vivaldi |
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- Couperin's verision of the suite.
- Each ordre consisted of a number of miniature works
- Each miniature was set in binary form based on dance rhythms.
- Also contained evocative titles (i.e. "The Victorious Muse" found in the 25th ordre) |
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| - Term Coined by Rameau to indicate the succession of the roots or fundamental tones in a series of chords. |
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- A treatise in harmony written by Jean-Phillipe Rameau
- The base for all music theory studies today
- Lays down the fundamental principles of all music harmony and composition. |
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