Baroque Flashcards

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concertato style (stile concertato)

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

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ornaments

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

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Camerata

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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.

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monody

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

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stretto

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

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conservatories

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homes for poor and orphaned children that specialized in music instruction

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ritornello form

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

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