Baroque Concepts Flashcards by Dylan Russell | Brainscape

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Consort

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Small group of instruments, type of chamber music

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Ballet

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Fa la la la

Strophic

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Time changes

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Change in tempo

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Chorus

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Group of singers

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Aria

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Solo group in an opera

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Plainchant

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Unaccompanied melody in Latin

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Suspension

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Creates tension

Note from first chord is held over next chord

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Homophonicp

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Moves at same time

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Polyphonic

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Moves at different times

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Basso continuo

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Supports one or more melodies

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Concerto Grissom

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Contrast between small groups of soloists and small orchestra

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Symphony

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Large orchestral piece

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Concerto

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Solo instrument

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Mass

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Latin
Syllabic
Sacred

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Cadences

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Perfect
Imperfect
Interrupted
Plagal

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Sequence

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Repeated section above/bellow

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Obstinate

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Riff

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Ground bass

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Short theme which is repeated as music varies

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Adagio

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Slow

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Allegro

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Fast

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Moderato

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Medium

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Through composed

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Vocal piece with no repetition

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Chant

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Renaissance
Monks
Modal

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Renaissance

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Earliest music

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Song cycle

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Group of songs linked by the same theme

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Coloratura

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High decorative singing

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Antiphonal

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Dialogue between voices and instruments

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Motet

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Latin
Sacred
Choral

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Oratorio

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Religious

Opera

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Mode

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Early scales

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Chorale

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German hymn tune

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Strophic

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Verse
Chorus
Verse
Chorus

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Inverted pedal

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High note sustained or repeated in an upper section

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Alberti bass

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Broken chords

Classical

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Ritornello

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Music that keeps coming back

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Stretto

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Voices and instruments come in fast one after another

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Subject

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Main theme

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Fugue

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Contrapuntal

Based on imitation

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Cannon

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Contrapuntal composition

Melody with multiple imitations

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Answer

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Imitate first voice

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Heniola

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Music changing from duple to triple (vice verse)