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| music that has no literary, dramatic, or pictorial program |
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| Baroque belief that music should arouse the emotions or affections |
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| choral music performed w/out instrument accompaniment |
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| second entry of the subject in a fuge, usually pitched a 4th below or 5th above subject |
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| Lyric song for solo voice w/ orch. accompaniment that expresses intense emotion |
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| total abandonment of tonality (centering in a key) |
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| a solo song that tells a story in simple verse |
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| dance form featuring a staged presentation of group or solo dancing w/ music scenery |
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| Portugese term from which 'baroque' was probably derived. |
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| Italian for "continuous bass" |
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| 'beautiful singing' florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility, smoothness & purity of tone |
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| two part (A-B) form with each section normally repeated |
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| chord commonly used in Jazz which may contain blue notes |
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| transitional passage connecting two sections of a composition |
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| flashy & improvised solo passage, a characteristic of the concerto |
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| polyphonic composition in which one musical line strictly imitates another at fixed distance throughout |
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| vocal work, either sacred or secular, featuring DICERAT (duets, choruses, ensemble, recitatives, arias, and rats) |
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| ensemble music for up to about 10 players, w/ 1 player to a part |
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| Baroque congregational hymn of the German Lutheran church |
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| the art of creating & arranging dance steps and movement for staged presentations |
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| harmony built from many if not all 12 semitones of the octave |
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| generic word for keyboard instruments |
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| "with wood" direction to bounce wooden stick of a violin bow against the strings |
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| solo group of instruments in the Baroque conerto grosso |
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| a multi-movement instrumental genre for solo instrument and orchestra |
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| the art of combining in a single texture 2 or more melodic lines |
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| in a fugue, the secondary theme heard against the subject; a countertheme |
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| structure in which musical material such as theme, presented in one movement returns in a movement |
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| lyric song in ternary (A-B-A) form, commonly found in opera,s cantatas, oratorios |
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| harmony biult from 7 tones of a major or minor scale |
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| chant from Requiem Mass whose text concerns Judgement Day |
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| combination of tones that sounds discordant & unstable, in need of resolution |
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| interlude or intermediate section in the Baroq fugue, which serves as an area of relaxation between statements of the subject |
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| 17th century discovery in which the range of harmonic possibilities on keyboard instruments was increased through a tuning adjustment |
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| study piece that focuses on a particular technical problem |
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| musical style in which rhythms, melodies, or instruments evoke color & atmosphere in far-off lands |
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| use of chromatic harmony in 19th century led to free use of all 12 tones in 20th century music |
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in sonata-allegro: 1st section in which major thematic material is stated
in fugues: 1st section in which voices enter in turn /w subject |
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