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Learn about the baroque, classical and something eras. (65 cards)

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Baroque instruments

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Violin, harpsichord, corrnetto, lute/theorbo

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stradivarius

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last name of guy that made amazing violins, normalized template for making modern violin

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Trio sonata

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normally had four people in it: two violins, one viola, two base parts(basso continuo)

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Basso continuo

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bass melody of trio sonata, had chordal instruments and a bass: ex baroque cello and harpsichord

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baroque orchestra

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mainly had string family:violin cello, viola, harpsichord was composer: sometimes there was no composer

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Antonio Vivaldi

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red priest, worked in ospedalle della pieta (orphanage), played to “funraise” for it, concierto composer, virtuoso, italian, venis,

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Virtuoso

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someone naturally gifted, best of the best

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Baroque Era

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17th-mid 18th century, 1600-1750, complex ornamented music, “grotesque, ornamented, excessive”

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barocco

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spanish term for deformed pearl

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baroque art

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Lavish ornaments, extreme detail, excessive decoration

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baroque music

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excessive decoration, fill in chords, homophonic music, twangy harpsichord, dissonance , instrumental music,homophony, basso continuo, ensebles, idea of standarization

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Caccini

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one of the founders of opera

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florentine camerata

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rich phylosophers and artist , invented opera to interpret their ideas, homophony

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Jacopo peri

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Florencia camerata

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Key thing of operas

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Were not flowy- had things called, arias and recitatives

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Aria

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Singing a song lika a song

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Recitative

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Giving a speech with kinda song

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Overture

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Orchestra plays music so everyone will shut up

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Instrumental interludes

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Part of opera

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Dido and Aeneas

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Henry Purcell

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Didos lament

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Aria within an opera, sang to her best friend belinda

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Ostinato

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When you have a repeating melody that goes on during most of the piece

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libretto

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written text of an opera

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librettist

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the person who wrote the text of the opera

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Antonio stradivarius
Baroque, italy, violin make,
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trio sonata (genre)
4 people, two solosit, basso continuo
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Concierto (genre)
Genre vivaldi would write in, soloist vs orchestra, multi movement (label of concierto based on piece), 3 movements. fast-slow-fast, Ritornello
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movement
mini piece in big song (part of piece)
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Ritornello (form)
seen in outer movement of concierto, piece w/ ritornello in it
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Ritornello
returning section w/ orchestra, home key-new key-homekey
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La primavera
1 concierto, symphony No. 40, programmatic, first thing we hear is ritornello
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programmatic
has story to go with it, story told before hand
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Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750) was in collegium musicum, cantata, baroque era ended w/ him, fugue, organ player, born in Leipzig, famous after 70yrs of death, kapellmeister, 4 churches 4 cities, school teacher
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Leipzig
oligarchy (rule by the people)
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canatata
30min piece for singing
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collegium musicum
group of amateurish musicians, instrumental works, public concerts (ticketed), liked to perform in zimmerman's coffee house
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Fugue
written by bach, genre, polyphonic, retrograde, immersion, augmentation, diminution, monothematic, exposition, every single voice gets a turn to sing the entire fugue
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exposition
exposes you to theme, 1 voice state theme completly
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monothematic
having a single dominating theme especially : having a theme continuing through more than one movement of a musical composition.
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organ
played with feet and hands, aerophone
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George Frideric Handle
german, worked in england studied in italy, oratorio guy
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oratorio
sacred, not acted out, chirstian, vernacular
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oratorio and opera
singers in orchestra, same scoring: arias, recitatives, overtures, interludes, choral, story lines, characters
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vernacular
when piece is written in the language of place where it was written
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classical period
mid 18th century to end of 18th, 1750's to 1800's, apollonian, concerts
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concerts
impersario,patronage system or freelancer
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impersario
sold tickets
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patronage
work for city or court
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freelancer
public as paetron become more free
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Vienna, Austria
mecca of classical music
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sonata in c major
mozart, 1st piece polyphonic, 2nd homophonic, complex
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sonata (form)
single movement, more complex, heart of classical music
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sonata (genre)
solo instrument w/ keyboard, chambre/ 3 movements, 1st movement can be in sonata form
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3 movement
1st sonata form (fast, tonic), 2nd theme of variation form (slow, not tonic), 3rd sonata form (tonic, fast). concierto and sonata
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symphony (form?)
4 movement, 1st and last movements in sonata form,
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minuetes
symphony not intened to be danced to only listened, triple meter
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string quartet
chambre music, 4 players,
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recapitulation
repites exposition but in different key
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concierto
soloist vs orchestra, labled concierto based on solo instrument, first alernation
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concierto
soloist vs orchestra, labled concierto based on solo instrument, first alernation
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first alernation
concierto starts w/ whole orchestra then soloist come in
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chambre music
sonata and quartet
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not chambre
symphony and concierto
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4 movement
symphony and string quartet
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
classical & romantic, Haydn teacher after Mozart dead, Antonio Salier new teacher, gave piano lessons, chambre concerts in salons,opus

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