Baroque fetaures

Question 1

Bariolage

Answer 1

Typical of baroque

Two stings are being played - one string open sting

Question 2

Ornamentation

baroque

Answer 2

Trills, mordents, turns etc.
Typical of baroque
Indicate cadence points

Question 3

Texture

baroque

Answer 3

Contrapuntal
Antiphonal
Homophony on melody
Fugal texture

• a simple homophonic texture

use of continuo to accompany the solo passages

Question 4

Melodic features

baroque

Answer 4

Ornaments -trills to indicate cadences 
Sequences, rising, descending 
Repetition; • frequent repetition of motifs
Even phrases 
Arpeggios and Scalic phrases 
Long flowing melodic lines
rapid string-crossing arpeggios
frequent use of four-bar phrases

Question 5

Dynamics

baroque

Answer 5

Terraced dynamics

No use of crescendos or diminuendos

Question 6

Tempo

baroque

Answer 6

Even pulse
1 and 3 movement fast
2 movement slower

Question 7

Rhythm

baroque

Answer 7

Fast rhythms, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, quavers
Rhythmic diminution
• strong rhythmic motifs

Question 8

Harmony

baroque

Answer 8

Tonic dominant harmony
Suspensions
Perfect cadences
Some dissonance, usually resolves

Question 9

Melodic decoration

baroque

Answer 9

Lower and upper auxiliary

Question 10

Tonality

baroque

Answer 10

Often modulates to tonic major/minor and dominant, secondary dominant

Question 11

Gigue

baroque

Answer 11

Lively baroque dance

Contrapuntal

Question 12

Form/structure

baroque

Answer 12

Ritornello from - passage that returns between episodes; • a ritornello/returning theme in the orchestra

• alternation of tutti and solo sections

Question 13

terraced dynamics

baroque

Answer 13

Expressive style typical of some early music in which volume levels shift abruptly from soft to loud and back without gradual crescendos and decrescendos.

Question 14

Tutti

baroque

Answer 14

all playing

• alternation of tutti and solo sections

Question 15

fortspinnung

baroque

Answer 15

motif is developed into an entire musical structure by using sequences, intervallic changes or simple repetitions

Question 16

counterpoint

baroque

Answer 16

Counterpoint is a style of musical writing which involves intertwining two or more melodies. Each individual melody (also called a “voice” or “part”) is an independent, musical idea, and the emphasis is on the separate strands of melody, on the horizontal axis, rather than on the harmony, or vertical axis

Question 17

imitation

baroque

Answer 17

the repetition of a melody in a polyphonic texture shortly after its first appearance in a different voice. The melody may vary through transposition, inversion, or otherwise, but retain its original character

Question 18

strings

Baroque

Answer 18

• more virtuosic writing for solo violin compared with the tutti
• double stopping