Baroque

Question 1

concertato style (stile concertato)

Answer 1

a 17th century style that combined voices and instruments that played different parts.

Question 2

ornaments

Answer 2

trills, turns, appoggiaturas, mordents added to certain notes to emphasize accents, cadences, or other important parts of the melody

Question 3

Camerata

Answer 3

A group that met in the late 1500s to discuss culture. Girolamo Mei, Vincenzo Galilei and Count Bardi were among this group that spoke out against vocal polyphony.

Question 4

monody

Answer 4

Accompanied solo singing from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Caccini’s Le nuove musiche represent this style.

Question 5

stretto

Answer 5

overlapping entrances of the subject in a fugue - a technique used by Bach

Question 6

conservatories

Answer 6

homes for poor and orphaned children that specialized in music instruction

Question 7

ritornello form

Answer 7

alternating sections between the full orchestra and one or more soloists, common inn fast movements of concertos