Baroque Flashcards
Suite
An ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces
Oratorio
A large scale musical composition on a sacred subject for solo voices chorus or orchestra
Concerto
Musical composition for instruments in which a solo instrument is set off against an orchestral ensemble
Melodic sequence
A melodic idea that is immediately repeated a different pitch level
Stretto
A passage at the end of a movement in faster tempo
Trio texture
4 players
Opera
An art form that tells a story through music and singing
Ostinato
A motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice and the same pitch
Recitative
A half singing, half reciting style of presenting words in opera, cantatas, etc.
Fantasies
A musical composition that doesn’t have a strict form
Figured bass
Musical notation where numbers and symbols appear above or below a note
Answer
Second entry of the subject in a fugue
Tocatta
To touch
Hemiola
When there are 3 half notes in a 3/4 measure
Fugue
A musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices
Basso continuo
The bass line within music
Cantata
A musical composition intended to be sung
Notes inegales
Rhythmic convention where certain divisions of the beat move in alternately long and short values
Pedal points
A sustained note in the bass
Countersubject
A theme in a fugue that occurs simultaneously with the second
Trio Sonata
4 movement piece with three instruments
A cappella
Singing without instrument accompaniment
Concertino
Solo instrument playing with an orchestra
Terraced dynamics
A sudden change from one dynamic level to another without a crescendo or diminuendo
Ripieno
Body of instruments accompanying the concertino
Ground bass
Short melody that is repeated by the bass section
Prima practica
The perfection of 16th century counterpoint
Concerto grosso
Small groups of soloists with full orchestra
Sonata
A type of composition for solo instrument or small instrumental
Ode
A lyric poem with complex stanza forms
Compound meter
Meters in which the beat divides into three
Countertenor
When a male vocal range is equivalent to a sopranos
Second practica
The need to express the meaning of words surpassed any other concern
Doctrine of affections
Embraced the proposition that music is capable of having multiple emotions within the listener
French overture
Musical form that is divided into two parts that are enclosed by double bars and repeat signs
Subject
A recognizable melody in which part of all of a composition is based on
Ritornello
A recurring passage
Concertato
A style of music in which a group of instruments share a melody in alternation
