Chapter 27: Sounding Spring: Vivaldi and the Baroque Concerto Flashcards
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Concerto
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Instrumental genre in several movements for solo instrument (or instrumental group) and orchestra. (page 151)
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Program Music
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Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, especially popular in the nineteenth century. (page 153)
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Episode
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Interlude or intermediate section in the Baroque fugue that serves as an area of relaxation between statements of the subject. In a Baroque concerto, the free and inventive material that alternates with returns of the ritornello, or instrumental refrain. (page 153)
