Baroque Midterm Flashcards

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Jean-Phillippe Rameau

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Based theory of harmony on overtone series, a chord is identical in inversions

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He invented the piano-forte.

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Rameau's patron. Rameau taught Poupli's wife piano.

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Wrote Goldberg Variations, 20 dance suites, 6 French suites, 6 partitas, 6 English Suites, The Art of Fugue, Organ, App 200 choral preludes, app. 70 other works, 6 trio sontatas, 3 violin sonatas, 6 Brandonberg Concerti, B minor mass and two passions.

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wrote the BWV the bach catalogue

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Dance suites, watermusik, fireworks music, Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Hammerstroke, less than Bach

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30 operas, 12 cantata cycles, 46 passions, incredibly prolific, friend of Bach.

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Emilio de Cavalieri produced sacred musical play: Representation of Body and Mind in Rome, longest musical stage work. L'Euridice

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Monteverdi's L'Orfeo produced in Mantua. Poet Alessandro Striggio and Monteverdi combined talents. Full orchestra, included toccatas and several ritornellos

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3 people born: Bach, Handel, Scarlatti

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Bach's Life

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WTC, treatise on Harmony Rameau

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Florence, Camerata, invention of Opera. Frescobaldi in Florence.

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Monteverdi composed L'Orfeo in 1607

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Naples. Where Alessandro Scarlatti was active. Domenico was born there.

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Monteverdi was there from 1613-1643

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where kuhnau and Bach were active

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Where Buxtehude composed much of his church music for the Abendmusicken public concerts. Bach walked 100 miles. Ugly Daughter!

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St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome

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Violins and Monteverdi

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The book by Fux

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The very first opera written in 1518

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Jacobo Peri set music to Euridce by Rinuccini publically performed at marriage of Henry IV france and Maria de Medici.

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The new music included trills, embellishments. Caccini wrote first important collection of monodies

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Concerto for few voices. Monteverdi's incorporated psalm tones, recitatives.

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Carissmi’s oratorio. Handel’s Oratorio Jephatha vows if the lord gives him victory in the impending battle, he will sacrifice whatever first comes out to greet him. His daughter does, so he sacrifices her.

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Little Sacred Concertos; Schutz motets for 5 solo voices with organ accompaniment (Saul's conversion)

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dot dot dot

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Henry Purcell's opera

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Henry Purcell wrote coronation anthems, 4 for George II's coronation.

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How to play the harpsichord

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Written by Corelli: has a Siciliano

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The song of the Angels at the Birth of Christ: Many wrote settings of this: Vivaldi Gloria in D.

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Collection of preludes and fugues for keyboard

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Kuhnau, sonatas based on OT subjections: Saul's conversion, Gideon,

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Bach wrote 6 concerti

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St. Matthew performed more than St. John. Neumeister, a poet, introduced sacred poetry for music called Cantatas.

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Julius Caesar opera by Handel

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Couperin's 27 clavecin pieces

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a bass instrument

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a method of writing for a chordal instrument

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Prima and Seconda practica

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composers sought ways to arouse the affections- states of the soul- rage, excitement, contemplation

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Figured bass

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above bass notes keyboard player fills in required chords. if not in root, composer adds figures or numbers

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Bass continuo. Emphasis on bass and treble line. Bass on lute and harpsichord.

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actual playing of figured bass. Performer might play simple chords and add melodies

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A very gentle beat, a rhythmic articulation

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style the original opera's were written in. Solo singing. Includes all times of solo singing, recitative, madrigals, arias, the basso continuo and the concertato medium, applied to sacred texts. 1 person.

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Pastoral, allegorical, or mythological interludes between acts of comedy and tragedy

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Girolamo Mei a Florentine scholar hosted an informal academy at his palace in Florence where literature, science, and arts were discussed and new music performed.

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Represents a series of scenes or moods that weave comic plot in dialogue

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poems about shepherds or similar rural subjects. Fairy tale atmosphere, last stage of madrigal, first stage of opera libretto.

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representing the motion- answering the why- same style as it is actually performed.

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refers to the specific details of the music; speech is the driving action.

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public concerts including oratorios, recitatives, arias, organ orchestral music. Attracted musicians from all over Germany.

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a dance song with a refrain that follows a simple pattern of guitar chords. Four bar phrase in triple meter

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Bass Ostinato

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writing out separate parts for voices and intruments

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Schutz: mingling of voices with instruments. Concerto for Vivaldi- late 1600's

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Excited style. Style that suggests action-clash of swords, galloping horse. Monteverdi used this.

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Italian: grew out of monodic strophic cariations. Alternated between recitatives and arias. Scarlatti and Rossi wrote these. Rossi was a master of cantatas.

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Unstaged choral work

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narrator of mid century oratorio

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chorus acting as the crowd

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succession of fugal and non-fugal sections. Tocare- shows off touch.

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make up large proportion of Baroque keyboard music. 1) French Amorphous 2) German 4 standard dance movements

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Allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue

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Couperin's term for a dance suite

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dry recitative accompanied by bass continuo

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accompanied by orchestra. used for tense dramatic situations. Burst of strings during a dramatic dialogue.

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1) Majestic 2) Overdotting, fast portion, imitative

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Perform dotted music as if it's triple dotted

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include da capo

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17th century brief serious composition for organ/clavier in which one theme is continuously developed in imitation

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replaced the ricercare 17th century. The subject stated in tonic, responded to by dominant.

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all semitones are equal and all intercals. Well tempered clavier

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any choral based organ work

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French Ornaments, couperin's organ music

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Sonata for church: two violins and bass continuo

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Sonata for Chamber

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Two treble melodic parts and bass continuo. Bach wrote one for left hand, right hand, and feet.

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a motive at different pitch levels

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a type of dance

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Refrain: Returning theme: alternates with episodes usually between solo and concertino

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where the solist gets the focus, ritornelli-focus on orchestra.

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Concerto for Orchestra

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stuffing. Doubling of parts of continuos to complete the harmonies

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same formation as trio in a large group

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Broken arpeggiated style of music

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mixed time

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Sacred subject matter with narration, unstaged

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Opera the frivolous thing you must give up

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how they tended to publish things

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His Treatise on Harmony 1722: completed the theoretical formation of the major-minor tonality systems.