Baroque Flashcards
concertato style (stile concertato)
a 17th century style that combined voices and instruments that played different parts.
ornaments
trills, turns, appoggiaturas, mordents added to certain notes to emphasize accents, cadences, or other important parts of the melody
Camerata
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.
monody
Accompanied solo singing from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Caccini’s Le nuove musiche represent this style.
stretto
overlapping entrances of the subject in a fugue - a technique used by Bach
conservatories
homes for poor and orphaned children that specialized in music instruction
ritornello form
alternating sections between the full orchestra and one or more soloists, common inn fast movements of concertos