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| expresses emotions, voice, same line over & over |
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| solo song in opera, speech, conversation |
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| person who writes liberetto |
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| pieces of major composition, breaks in between |
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| refrain/return, played by full orchestra |
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| repeated section of music played by the full orchestra (tutti) |
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| rapid alteration of notes. baroque start with upper note |
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| instrumental side with story, poem. vivaldis '4 seasons' |
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| person at end of stage bailing out singers |
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| repeated over & over throughout whole composition |
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| ABA, ternary form (three sections). 2nd section contrasts with 1st section. 3rd section usually repeats 1st. |
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| group of nobles who met & discussed. paved way for opera. |
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| male singer castrated before puberty |
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| speech with full orchestra |
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| instrument. church sonata. slow- fast- slow- fast |
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| chamber sonata, dance like |
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| music material passed between small group soloists. |
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| (to chase after) polyphonic, main melody, one main theme |
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| pedals on organ, sustained while other music goes on |
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| a fugue where variation is upside down |
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| a fugue where variation is backwards |
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| short piece performed before a more important one. often before a fugue |
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| main movement before chorus |
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| large scale composition. set to a narrative text. based on biblical stories |
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| same throughout piece, repeated. but changes slightly different. Haydn 104 surprise |
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| minuet & trio (type of form) |
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| dance form. ternary, triple meter, used as 3rd movements, stately & dignified. (night music) |
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| single movement, 3 sections, 1exposition: presented themes, 2development, 3recap: themes return, coda: end |
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| orchestral composition. usually 45 min. tone color of orchestra |
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| soloist composition. 1fast 2slow 3fast |
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| soloist plays at beginning. can be improvised. |
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| progress was best for humans |
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| elaborate decorated space, science experiments. frills, curly cues, fill in space. opera, viverous, continuous stream, base instuments, programatic began. text paining continued |
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| power shifts to middle class. balance, clarity, 4 sections of orchestra. melodies(the tunes that get stuck in your head) |
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| italian, cremona born. early baroque. created passionate & dramatic. wrote first opera. music director. (you are dead) |
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| grief aria(repeated), ground bass, english. buried beneath organ in westminster abbey |
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| 'red priest'. venice. (4 seasons) played for the hospice of mercy for orphans. music not appreciated when alive. |
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| musical family, 20 children, most eminent organist, wrote everything but opera. only organ piece we will hear. |
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| spent life in england, ran opera company. boss, organist. most famous for messiah, wrote in 24 days. alleluia |
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| skilled servant, esterhousys. conducted orchestra, did everything. father of symphony (no.4) wrote many quartets (4 voices & 4 instruments) |
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| Salzburg, austria. concert tour as a child. prodigy. wrote 41 symphonies. 35 years old died. died broke |
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| alteration between loud & soft dynamic levels. |
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| made up of a bass part played by 2 instruments: a keyboard plus a low melodic instrument |
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