Baroque style Flashcards
francesca caccini
(when, who, made what)
- 1587 - 1641
- composer, singer, teacher, instrumentalist, musica
- served in womens court 30+ years
- made over 17 theatrical works
- made over 100 shorter vocal works
- little of the music survives
musica / musico
all round musician
monody
- musical style
- “one song”
- solo vocal melody with a instr. accompaniment
- homophonic
basso continuo
- small group of musicans
- best in the orchestra
- play all the time
- play even during rechantive
- low bass, low wind, keyboard
- sometimes a plucked
to realize a figured bass
- read bass line
- interpert the figures
- play chords
- add improvs or ornamentations
opera
(invented when, where, what is it)
- invented in 1600 in italy
- in 1637 it became mroe of a public thing
- musical drama, divided into multiple acts, divided into scenes
- large-scale solo song, monody
- homophonic
the 2 types of songs in opera
recitative:
- about the dialog
- no beat
- no repeats of text
- no melisme
- accompanied by basso continuo who closely follows singer
aria:
- about the music
- has a beat
- has melismes
- repeats text
- usually accompanied by larger ensemble (orchestra)
- most well known part of opera
libretto
the story of an opera
librettist
the person who writes the story of the opera
not the composer
atto melani
- italian castrato and composer
- used as a spy
- banished from france for a bit
- became a gentleman of his chamber
- gave up music for diplomat life
- 1 of 7 brothers all musicans
- served the Medici family in Tuscany
- most often performed in private settings
castrato
- a male singer whos been castrated before puberty to retain the pre-adolescent high vocal range
- most imporant vocal soloists
- they where rock stars
overture
- introduction to the opera
- instrumental piece
- 1st thing played
- before characters on stage
- used to quiet the audience
- forshadow themes to follow
properties of the orchestra
- specified instr parts
- basso continuo instruments where never specified
- centered around bowed strings
- smaller 10 to 25 people
- bowed was teh core
lament
- poem of grief, regret or mourning
- type of aria
basso ostinato (gorund bass)
any musical figure that repeats over and over as an accompaniment
recorder
- looks and sounds like a flute
- wood
viol
- like a violin
- placed on lap kinda like chello
lute
- kinda like a guitar with a round back
- the head thing is bent back
- strumed
harpsichord
- like a piano
- strings are plucked
- sounds similar to piano
organ
- multi level piano
- with lots of foot pedals
- sounds like a horn piano
movement (multi-movement)
- genre
- several sperate musical pieces that are always played together in the same order
- each piece is called a movement
sonata
- genre
- chamber music
- solo instr and basso continuo
or solo instr that plays solo and acompaniment at the same time
trio sonata
2 soloists and a basso continuo
solo concerto
- multi-movement
- genre
- solo instr and orchastra
concerto grosso
- multi-movement genre
- 2 or more instr solo and orchestra
- never titled concerto grosso
dance suit, baroque dance suite
- multi-movement genre
- orchestra without solo
fugue
- part of music that employs imitative polyphony
- can be a genre if the whole piece is fugue
- 1st theme is called the subject. its repeated throughout the peice
ritornello form
alternation between recurring orchestral theme and constrating solos
theme and variations form
main theme that is altered thorough the piece
johann sebastian bach
- died in 1750
- marked the end of the baroque era
- most influential composer in western music history
cantor
leader of song
antonio vivaldi
(who, nickname, what)
- violinist, composer
- born in venice italy
red priest, for his red hair - violin teacher for music school of teh pieta
george frideric handel
- german composer
- all genres
- 39 italian operas
- music director
-not from musical family
oratorio
- genre
- music drama for vocal soloists
- secular (based on bible)
- no costumes
- no acting
da capo aria form
- ABA
- return to beginning after reaching end of 2nd section
- dominant aria form in baroque opera.
