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Music History 1
Exam 3A Terms 3
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Undergraduate 3
04/10/2007

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Fantasia
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Instrumental composition that resembles an improvisation or lacks a strict form. Imitative instrumental piece on a single subject. *Complex counterpoint, grand scale
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Canzone
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Sixteenth-century Italian genre, an instrumental work adapted from a chanson or composed in a similar style. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, an instrumental work in several contrasting sections, of which the first and some of the others are in imitative counterpoint.
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Da capo arias
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Aria form with two sections. The first section is repeated after the second section's close, creating an ABA form
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French overture
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Type of overture used in tragédie en musique and other genres, that opens with a slow, homophonic, and majestic section, followed by a faster second section that begins with imitation
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Recitatif simple
Definition
In French baroque opera, recitative that shifts frequently between duple and triple meter to allow the natural speechlike declamation of the words.
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Recitatif measure
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In French Baroque opera, recitative in a songlike, measured style, in a uniform meter, and with relatively steady motion in the accompaniment.
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Air
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English or French song for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment, setting rhymed poetry, often strophic, and usually in the meter of a dance.
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Petit motet
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sacred concerto for few voices with continuo
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Grand motet
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multi-section work corresponding to the large-scale concertos of Gabrieli and Schütz
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Masque
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Sketches of different composers multiple scene changes, Seventeenth-century English entertainment involving poetry, music, dance, costumes, choruses, and elaborate sets, akin to the French court ballet.
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English recitative
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Speechlike music, molded to the accents, pace, and emotions of the English text.
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Semi-opera
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Modern term for dramatic opera. Seventeenth-century English mixed genre of musical theater, a spoken play with an overture and four or more masques or long musical interludes.
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