Baroque Period Flashcards

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Some features of the baroque period?

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  • Italy
  • music composed for texts conveying extreme emotion
  • melodic lines imitated rhythms and inflections of speech
  • homophonic texture prominent
  • late baroque= return of polyphonic
  • dissonance, contrast of sound (solo singers v chorus v instruments)
  • modes gave way to major and minor
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What is unity of mood?

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  • One mood expressed throughout

- musical language to depict

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Baroque rhythm?

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  • continuity of rhythm, rhythmic patterns at beginning repeated throughout
  • provide compelling drive and energy, forward motion rarely interrupted
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Baroque melody?

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  • also creates a feeling of continuity, opening melody repeated throughout
  • continuous expanding, unfolding and unwinding of melody
  • elaborate and ornamental
  • dynamic expansion
  • short opening phrase followed by longer phrase with unbroken flow of rapid notes
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Baroque dynamics?

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  • level of volume fairly constant, sudden shift (terraced dynamics)
  • main instruments: organ and harpsichord
  • clavichord for home use
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Baroque texture?

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  • usually polyphonic
  • imitation between lines or ‘voices’
  • piece might shift in texture due to change of mood or words
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Baroque chords and basso continuo?

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  • chords became more important
  • melodies composed to fit specific chord progressions
  • prominence to bass part, foundation of harmony
  • basso continuo played by at least two instruments
  • steady flow of chords, emphasise bass part
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Baroque words and music?

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  • word painting
  • emphasised words by writing many rapid notes for one syllable
  • individual words and phrases repeated as music continuously unfolds
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Modulation!!!

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  • commonly dominant to tonic (5-1)
  • major to minor, raised 5th
  • tonic to dominant, raised 4th (1-5)
  • tonic to subdominant, flattened 7th (1-4)
  • minor to major, flattened 7th
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Cadences!!

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  • perfect, sounds very final (5-1)
  • plagal, sounds quite final (4-1)
  • imperfect, sounds incomplete (1/ anything- 5)
  • interrupted, sounds unexpected (5-4/anything)
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What is secondary dominant?

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Secondary dominant refers to a dominant triad or seventh chord set to resolve to a degree that is not the tonic

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Baroque harmony?

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  • tonal harmonies, chords in major or minor keys
  • circle of fifths
  • suspensions, pedal points and ground basses
  • added sevenths and cadences in chord progressions
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What is the circle of fifths?

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Relationship among the 12 tones of the chromatic scale, their corresponding key signatures and the associated major and minor keys

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What is the baroque suite?

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  • instrumental music closely linked with dancing

- movements all in same key but different tempo and mood

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When was the baroque period?

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1600-1750

Baroque period ends when Bach dies (1750)

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