Test 2 Flashcards
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Baroque period date
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1600-1750
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Translation of Baroque
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Overly ornate, gaudy, in poor taste
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Functional tonality
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Some called it major-minor tonal system
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Basso Continuo
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-In virtually all baroque music
- 2 instruments playing from single figured bass parts:
viola da gamba or early cello (or trombone bassoon)
Harpsichord/organ and lute or other strummed instrument
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Suite
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Collection of dance style movements
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Opera
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Full length dramatic vocal, no no spoken words, also included orchestra and typical play stuff
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Dafne
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1598
Peri/Corsi liberator by Rinuccini
Orfeo and Euridice but with a happy ending
Written for Wedding of Henry IV of France and Marie de Medici
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Claudio Monteverdi
Importance/style
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Bridged transition from renaissance to early baroque styles
Vocal music
Advanced prima prattica and seconds prattica
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Barbara Strozzi
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Premiere female composer of 17th centur
Composed and published several volumes of solo vocal works
Well known singer
Founded a music academy
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Orfeo
Ahi, Casio acerbo
Composer
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Ahi caso acerbo genre
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Opera
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Lagrime mie author
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Barbara strozzi
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Lagrime mie genre
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Cantata
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Trio sonata in D Major Op 3 No 2
Composer
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Arcangelo Corelli
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Trio sonata in D Major Op 3 No 2
Genre
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Trio Sonata
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Trio sonata in D Major Op 3 No 2
movements
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Grave and Allegro
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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in a Minor Op. 3 No 6
Composer
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Antonio Vivaldi
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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in a Minor Op. 3 No 6
Genre
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Violin concerto
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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in a Minor Op. 3 No 6
movements
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Allegro
Largo
Presto
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Clori vezzosa
Composer
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Alessandro Scarlatti
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Clori vezzosa
Genre
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Cantata
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Clori vezzosa
Sections
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Recitative: Vivo and penando
Aria: si si Ben mio
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Suite no 3 in A minor
Composer
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Elisabeth-Claude Jacque de la Guerre
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Suite no 3 in A minor
Instrument/Genre
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Keyboard suite
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Suite no 3 in a minor
Movements
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Prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue
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Prelude and Fugue in A minor
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Prelude and Fugue in A minor
Two movements
Prelude and fugue
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Prelude and Fugue in A minor
Instrument/Genre
Organ prelude and fugue
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Nun Komm de Heiden Heilamd
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Nun Komm de Heiden Heilamd
Genre
Cantata
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Nun Komm de Heiden Heilamd
3 movements
So geht aus gottes
Streite siege
Lob sie gott
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So geht aus gottes
Genre
Recitative
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Streite siege
Genre
Aria
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Lob sie gott
Genre
Chorus
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3 new vocal music genres
Opera, oratorio, cantata
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Opera
Sacred/secular text and subject
One to three hours
Typical theatre stuff
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Oratorio
Subject, length, acting/stage stuff?, parts
Normally religious subject
One to three hours
No acting or stage stuff
Often includes narrator to describe action
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Cantata
Religious
No acting
20-30 minutes
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Recitative
Heightened speech style
Rhythm follows natural inflection
Sparse and chordal accompaniment
In opera- action
Rhythm is irregular
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Aria
Style, key characteristics
Use
Dramatic vocal- opera
More melodic
Often for characters to describe emotions felt at that particular time in plot
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Arioso
Midway between aria and recitative
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Describe Antonio Vivaldi
Leading Italian of late baroque
Learned from father
Huge contributions to violin technique
Concerto guy
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Dance movements
Form, organization
Examples
Often organized in a Suite
Almost always in binary form
Allamande
Courant
Sarabanfe
Minuet
Gigue
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Allamande
Translation
Meter
How many music lines?
Means German
Typically in 4
Contrapuntal
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Courante
Translation, tempo/meter
Means running
Fast runs of notws
In three
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Sarabande
Slow stately dance
In 6
Slowest of dances
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Minuet
Meter/tempo
Triple meter
Moderate tempo
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Gigue
Since with leaps
In 6/8
Moves quickly
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Inegal
Uneven or unequal subdivisions of beat
Especially in French instrumental
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Da capo aria
Standard aria form used in dramatic vocal works
A|B|A
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Country, jobs, important, works
German
Greatest composer of common practice period (Baroque, classical, romantic and 20th century) especially high baroque
Functional tonality
In his lifetime-mostly known as organ technician. Work was deemed old fashioned
Well tempered clavier (prelude and fugues in all 12 major and 12 minor keys)
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Georg Phillip Telemann
Importance style and jobs
One of most prolific (produced A LOT) composers of all time
Borrows from other National styles “eclectic” (borrow/combining many styles)
Godfather of JS Bach child but they had to compete for jobs a lot
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Fugue
Translation, style
To flee or chase
Canonic imitation, less strict than canon
No universally agreed on definition
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Paris Quartet No. 1 in G Major
Composer
George Phillip Telemann
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Paris Quartet No. 1 in G Major
Genre
Concerto
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Paris Quartet No. 1 in G Major
Movements
Largo, Allegro
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George Fredric Handel
German
Music in all genres
Helped Public concerts
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Bel canto
“Beautiful singing”
Baroque operas
Hard, quick passages
Highly dramatic, powerful statements, LOUD
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Where is the son of Jesse
Composer
George Friedricj Handel
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Who is the son of Jesse
Genre
2 part
Oratorio- recitative
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Of fatal consequence of rage
Composer
George firedticj handel
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Oh fatal consequences of rage
Genre
Chorus?
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The messiah
Style, composer, text, language, for who
Oratorio by George Frederic Handel
Text from King James Bible in English for Anglican Church
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Parts of the messiah
Foretelling/ birth of Jesus
Jesus suffering death/resurrection
Jesus role as mankind’s redeemer/savior
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Orfeo ahi caso acerbo by Claudio Monteverdi
notable features
Women (vaguely Campbell)/ man
Fairly mellow
Plucky strings and drone background
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Lagrime Mie by Barbara strozzi
Notable features
Sad minor sharp SOPRANO
Cello/plucked strings or harpsichord
Dainty guitar solo
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Trios in D by Archancello Corelli
Instruments
Movements
Notable features
3 strings and harpsichord
Grave- Slow lyrical
Allegro- bouncier, faster
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Allesssandro Scarlatti by Clori Vezzosa
Instrumentation
Both movements
Notable features
Androgynous Campbell
Recitivw: vivo and penando- slow voice + harpsicord
Aria: si si mio Ben - fast voice + harpsichord
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Elizabeth Jacques de la Guerre
Suite 3 in a minor
INSTRUMENTATION?!!!!
All movements
Notable figures
Harpsichord solo
Prelude- rhythmically freeee
Allamande- lots of trills?
Courante- stately
Sarabande- slowest/sparse in bass more Room mellow
Gigue- little space many fast notes
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and fugue in a minor
Instruments
Notable featuresj
Prelude: dark low FAST lots movement ORGAN SOLO
Fugue: long shrill high voice. Moving bass ORGAN SOLO
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Goeorge zphillip Telemane
Paris quartet in G major
All movements
Notable features
Largo- flute cello slow
Allegro- flute fast
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George Friedrich Handel
Saul
Both movement
Notable features
Where is son of Jessie- English dramatic man
Oh fatal consequences- English chorus with strings ROUNDS IMITATION
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What did George Philip Telemann write
Paris quarter in g major
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Who wrote Saul and its movements
Where is the son of Jesse
O fatal consequence of rage
George Friedricj Handel
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What did Bach right
2 answers
Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland
Prelude and fugue in a minor
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What did Elizabeth Claude Jaqueline de la Guerre write
Suite no 3 in a minor
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What did Alessandro Scarlatti write
Clari vezzosa
Vivo and Penando
So so Ben mio
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What did Vivaldi write
Concerto for violin and orchestra in a minor
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What did archangels Corelli write
Trio sonatas in d major
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What did Barbara strozzi write
Lagrime mie
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What did Claudio Monteverdi write
Orfeo
Ahi caso acerbo
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Vivaldi concerto ALLEGRO description
Solo violin
Repeated quarter note pitches
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Vivaldi concerto
Largo description
Slow sad violin solo
Sparse chordal backgroudn
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Vivaldi concerto
Presto description
Fast, bouncy
Solo violin runs
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Clori Vezzosa
Vivo penando description
Fore and background
Slow androgynous voice and active harpsichord
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Clori Vezzosa
Si si Ben Mio description
Fast androgynous voice and harpsichord
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Suite number 3 in a minor
Prelude description
Free rhythm solo harpsichord
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Suite number 3
Gigue description
Harpsichord. Moderate tempo with space
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Nun Komm de Heiden Heiland
So ghett aus gottes description
Male solo- short quarter notes of chords
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Sreite siege description
Fire and background
Male technical solo + strings and occasional flute
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Lob sei gott description
Slow chorus minor
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Paris Quartet in g
Largo
Slow flute
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Paris quartet in g
Allegro description
Flute or fast solo string w/ harpsichord
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Where is the son of Jesse
English man and occasional strummed chords
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Oh fatal consequences of rage description
Fast bouncy chorus, occasional rounding
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Figured bass
Improvised keyboard with bass line and chords symbols
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Guitar long neck strings
Theorbo
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Ballet
Music for dance
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Trio sonata instrumentation
2 violins and basso continuo (low string/harpsichord)
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Sonata
Solo instrumental work
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Concerto Grosso
Translates to GREAT (multiple solos)
Solo instrumental work with orchestra
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Concerto
Solo instrument with orchestra at this time
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Binary form
AB
Mostly instrumental. Dance movements
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Overture
Musical introduction to something
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Chorale prelude
OG chorales monophonic
Instrument intro based on chorale
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Der Wohltemperierte Klavier
Well tempered clavier
24 piano works in all major/minor keys. Half prelude half fugue
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Temperament
Methods used for tuning
How octave split
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Equal temperament
Makes keys all sound the same. Standardized half steps in octave
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Before baroque Public concerts
Before baroque, you had to be invited to rich people parties or courts
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Libretto
Text to dramatic vocal work
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Sinfonia
Orchestral intro to dramatic vocal work
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Ritornello
Who done it
Something that comes back within the piece
Vivaldi
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Canzonetta
Short cheerful somg
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BWV [Bach Werke Verzeichnis], BuxWV, etc.
How we catalogued Bachs work
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Prelude
Orchestral intro to piece
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Fugue
Short phrase passed around
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Suite 3 Allemande description
Harpsichord many trills but still pretty spacious
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Suite 3 Courante description
Harpsichord In three
Little space- a lot happening
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Suite 3 saraband description
Slow harpsichord
Sad?
Lots of space
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Suite 3 gigue description
Harpsichord
Fast, lots of movement even in bass
