Definitions

Question 0

Stile antico

Answer 0

Old style used in music after 1600, imitation of old contrapuntal style of Palestrina

Question 1

stile moderns

Answer 1

17th century style, used basso continuo applied the rules of counterpoint freely

Question 2

Secunda practical

Answer 2

Practice of counterpoint and composition that allows old rules to be broken

Question 3

Prima practica

Answer 3

Style and practice of 16th century polyphony

Question 4

Doctorine of affections

Answer 4

Baroque composers sought to express or arouse feelings

Question 5

Strophic aria

Answer 5

Any setting of strophic poetry

Question 6

Chaconne

Answer 6

Variations over a basso continuo

Question 7

Passacaglia

Answer 7

Variations over a repeated bass line or harmonic progressions in triple meter

Question 8

Abenmusiken

Answer 8

During advent public concerts of sacred vocal music at st. Mary’s on 5 Sunday’s each year before Christmas

Question 9

Meantone Temperament

Answer 9

5th are tuned small so that major 3rd sound well, used for keyboard instruments

Question 10

Equal temperament

Answer 10

Octave is divided into 12 equal semitones

Question 11

Stile concitato

Answer 11

Excited style by Monteverdi to portray anger and work like actions rapid reiteration of a single note

Question 12

Banchetto musicale

Answer 12

1617 contains 20 suites for 5 instruments w/ continuo

Each have sequence pavones, galliard, couronte allemande and tripia

Question 13

Tabulatura nova

Answer 13

1624 by Schedit includes several monumental fantasies, it is new because he adapted the modern Italian practice of writing each vote on a separate

Question 14

Da capo aria

Answer 14

2 sections, ABA form, 1st section on is repeated after the second sections close, which says da capo

Question 15

Ritornello

Answer 15

REFRAIN

1) 14 Centuary madrigal: closing section in new meter
2) 16-17 century vocal music: instrumental intro or interlude but with sung stanzas
3) aria: instrumental passage that resources several times
4) fast movement of a concerto: recurring thematic material

Question 16

Scordatura

Answer 16

Unusual tunings of the violin strings to facilitate the playing of particular notes or chords