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baroque
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1600 1750
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J.Kepler
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german mathematician said planets revoved around the sun
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Bernini
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Italian sculptor had a shop. ecstasy of st. theresa was the most famous piece. got jealous of assitants wife and had her face cut.
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barraco
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the orgin of the word baroque. mean sometheing bad like a misshapen pearl. used by 18th centure writers saying that the music of the time was not as good as teh pervious music
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prima prattica
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first practice
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second practtica
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second practice
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artusi controversy
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artusi was a theorist of the time, looked at a piecec written by monteverdi and said no you can't break the rules like that. monteverdi says i know the rules so i can break the rules.
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treble/ bass polarity
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the uppermost part and the lower most part became this.
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1637
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the first opera house opened and monteverdi's music was in high demand. means anyone who can buy a ticket can be entertained by opera.
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le nuove musiche
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the new music. vocal ornamentation
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la gerusalame liberata
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jerusalem liberated poem by tasso
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1624- il combatti mento di trancerdi e clorinda
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the combat btw tancred and clorinda 12th part of the tasso poem. clorinda is disguied as a man she fights tancred, she is a peagan. tancred w as a christian man who didn't know he was firghting a woman. he killed her and she asked for baptism. the music was a madrigal but was a baroque madricgal
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testo
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the narrator of the la gerusalame liberata
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monody
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early baroque term, monodic style mean you emphasize the one line of the singers part in the early opera and the accompaniment are subservient to it, which meant basso continuo. singer important acc not. monteverdi changed this.
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florentine camerata
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learned people met in florenc italy, and discussed what was wrong with renny music. overlapping melody, not understandable. they filter out the amount ofrecessative comparted to singing. mondic style is an outgrowth from this meeting.
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stile repersentative
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theatre style or operatic style this is the recessative style that is in early opera. get through at lot fo text through reciting on note. then sing a tune, aria
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recitative/ arie
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you recite a lot of words with simple acc. then you stop and relect upon an aspect of the story in song form
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cavalli and cesti
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two venican composers of pera added spectacles
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cavalli and cesti
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two venican composers of pera added spectacles
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cavalli and cesti
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two venican composers of pera added spectacles
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spectacles
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lots of stuff to enterain the audience
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dues ex machina
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god from a machine machines uesd in the time to add to the opera. making people fly, making a ship look like its moving
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dues ex machina
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god from a machine machines uesd in the time to add to the opera. making people fly, making a ship look like its moving
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ground bass
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the composer can havin a repetitive bass line while the singer is with a long tt and melody
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basso ostinato
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it term for gound bass obstinate bass
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romanesca
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chanconne
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tends to be repeated harmonic pattern .
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passacaglia
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tends to be a repeated bass line. street music org that was reptative. starts with an upbeat or anacrusis continuous veriations.
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concertato style
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gabrielli the two choirsin a loft guy, started this and its cont in the baraoque
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stile concitato
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agitated or excited style sometimes with string instrument would you tremolo to get and excited style out if them
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monteverdi
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used teh agitated style in the story of tancred and clorinda
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madrigali querrieree at amorosi
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8th book of madrigals actual name
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bel canto
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used in teh 17th century to secribe the bel canto style of singing.
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da capo aria
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embeds itself in opera with show up in the recitative/aria, the aria will be da capo. only wrote a and b part, then put dc. , then where to finish was marked by fine or bya fermata.
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bel canto
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used in teh 17th century to secribe the bel canto style of singing.
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cantata & sonata
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17th century, contare is teh verb of contata, which is sung pice . sonore is the verb of sonata, which is a perfomed piece by an ensemble. goes to harpsichord in 17th century
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oratorio
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org is a pice that last 10-15 mins, took place in a oratory which relates to when a priest in latin mass, oreamus, let us a pray. basically an annesx of church,fellowship hall etc
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f. Neri
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assc. with some of teh first musical dialogues that took place in a church oratory. couldn't get his fix when and opera house was closed, closed during lent. he went to churches
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prima donna
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lead saprano
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castrato
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castrated male saprano
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oratio lantino
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means the oratorio was in latin orgn
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oratio volgare
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oratoria that was italian, the lang of the people
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oratio volgare
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oratoria that was italian, the lang of the people
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jepthe
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most famous oratorio by carissimi
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jepthe
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most famous oratorio by carissimi
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storicus
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narrator tells the story
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testo
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narrator as well
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carissimi
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most famous oratorio composer in the 17th century
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H. schutz
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studied in venice with gabrielli, now have german oratorio
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fioumusicali
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colorful music title. musical flowers. the name of a collection of organ music
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g. frescobaldi
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organist in rome, collected the fioumusicale. find music functional for church music to continue the sound of the lute.
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style brise
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connected with the lute. broken style. the lute is such a smal instrument, composers broke up music to continue the sound of the lute
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rhetorique des deiux
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lute collection by goultier. rhetoric of the gods. lute music
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a scarlatti
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the father of the opera. famous sone who wrtoe vocal music but famous for keyboard and organ, dominico scarlatti
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da capo aria
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a part, b part, then beginning
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continuo aria
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orchestra does not play, just basso continuo, harsichord and cello may still play
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sicilicano
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sicilican folk music styled with dotted rhythm patterns suple meter and other meters
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neoplitan chord
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comes from naples got the name from being used in neapolitan opera flat II if you don't remember
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recitatrio secco
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no orchestra unacc
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recitative accompagneto
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the whole orchestra plays with singer
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farinelli
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most paid castrato in the 17th century
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tyragedi lyrique
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same thing as opera = french
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pallet/french play
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big thing in france. wagner threw in dancing when he he was performing in france so that he wouldn't fail
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l.b lully
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it lived in france most of his life becomes mr. music and mr. opera unders louis the XIV. stabbed himself with teh grand baton and stabbed his food. died from blood poisoning
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Jp quinault
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the librettist teamed with lully to make lyric tragedy. had to honor the king in the play
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Louis XIV
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music was wealthy under his reign. would get up and dance with the players in the opera
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French overture
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created by lully everyone copied his tyle of the french overture. a part that is slow, b part is fast and fuguel
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armide
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lully set teh pattern with this piece
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b marcello
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a musician and an author
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it teatro alla moda
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the theatre that is fashionable book by marcello
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ourverture
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otverture is the english eual
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sinfonia
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it word for overture
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masque
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english spells mask. this is entertainment at the court dancing poetry, solos, duets and trios
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john blow
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friend of purcell wrote masks and others
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h. purcell
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great english compoers. took minor key decending tetrachord, makes it more dramatic by descending chromatically and adds a cadence to loop back to teh top
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dido and aeneas
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by henry purcell contains the ground bass aria 'dios lament
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ground bass
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same bass line over and over again
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ground bass
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same bass line over and over again
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n tate
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the librettist for dido and aeneas looked at the org vigil aenid and translates for the opera dido and aeneas
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virgil/aenid
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classic latin story of aenid
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orpheus britannicus
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the britannic orpheus purcell was teh britannic orpheus, lot of vocal pieces
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barque organ
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becomes a big deal in the 17th century after the protestant reformation lutheran curches the organ becomes a big deal
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g silbermann
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instrument makers bach played a silbermann organs
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g silbermann
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instrument makers bach played a silbermann organs
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d. buxtehude
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organ compoers worked in north part of germany. bach heard of his work and goes 200 miles north to hear his music for advent.
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pachelbel
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a southern german composer canon in d is famous piece
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toccata
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written by buxtehude, it. for to touch, a touch piece
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pedal technique
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buxtehude thought we should be able to play with your feel. hold out a long note and play melodies above it.
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episode
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used to modulate to when you are going to have another expo usually sequential
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real/ tonal answer
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real is where teh intervals are the same btw the answer and teh subject. tonal answer is wheer you will change an interval to keep it in teh harmonic structure
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tiento
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an imiative composition fugal to some extent
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chancone
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the re of a hramonic pattern
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passacagli
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the rep of a bassline
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orders
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a suite of little pieces for harpsichord
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couplets
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diversions away from the theme in rondo form
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l'art de toucher le clavecin
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a book by couperin "we the french don't play as we write" i you have conjunct eitghth notes. da dat dat at da dat
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the 4 suites are
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allamande courante sarabande gigue
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frische klavier fruchte
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book of sonatas by kuhnau
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sonata de chiesa
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sonata of the church would never see a dance listed as a title important in the 17th century
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baroque trio sonata
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how many layers does it take to perform a baroque trio sonata correctly? Answer 4 harpsichord adn bass take the same linw
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solo sonata with B.C
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you need three players, one soloist with basso continuo
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san patroino bologna
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bologna italy, had famous school of string players would have probably heard a string service every sunday.
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a corelli
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studied at san patronio moved to rome italy and became a great performer italian who didn't write vocal music. kind of odd.
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concerto grosso
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full orchestra
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sequence
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corelli used the sequence passages to modulate anywhere you want to easily
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new tonal system
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this was when major and minor patterns finally gelled
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baroque ornamentation- small melodic formulas
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trills mordents, and turn that have symbols like tr ~~
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baroque ornamentation- longer ornaments.
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breaking down big notes into smaller notes terms- divisions, diminutions, break big notes into little notes.
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baroque ornamentation- cadenza
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fermata cadences, V42 fermata, 164 fermata, point was to pause and add something yourself.
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fermata uses-
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cadenze, extend value, end of piece, phrases of chorale
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string makers
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amali stradivari, guarmeri
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ritornello
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means you keep coming back to themes in various keys
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torelli
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famous composer of the concerto
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vivaldi
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excelled in opera a prolific master of the italian baroque concerto
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rameu
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responsible for our theory calsses today and famous theoretician, developed a boko on music theory, certain principals are stilll retained today
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Bach opera?
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never wrote opera why was never paid to write one
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handel
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after serious opera he sorta waned to the public. he turned to oratorios I.E massiah. wrote itlian opera and mad bank in london
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ritornello
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a returning form where you recognize the main motives in any key that the composers wants
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le pouplinere
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house vivaldi
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french opera
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had to sound like lully or you wouldn't be successful
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Hippolyte et arici
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tragic opera
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"guerre do bouffons"
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war of the buffoons a paper war over types of music and what is best
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Rameau
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known as organist and harpsichordist and then a theorist with a book
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