instrumental music late renaissance early baroque Flashcards
wgat are four examples of fugal like instrumental pieces of this era
Fantasia, Ricercare, Verset, Capriccio
what is a fantasia
at first an improvisatory genre used to simply warm up before a bigger performance. is fugal because it plays with imitative counterpoint and contrapuntal style.
what is the monothematic fantasia and who is a master of it
a precursor to the fugue, based on one subject and its permutations. Sweelink eas one of the masters of this music
what two types of fantasias did Sweelink write
monothematic and echo
what is sweelinks most famous work
Fantasia Chromatica
what techniques does fantasia chromatica use
augmentation, diminution, countersubjects
What is a toccata
a piece intended as a display of manual dexterity, almost always for solo keyboard instrument.
who is one of the forerunners of the toccata
Girolamo Frescobaldi
what is the example we looked at in class of a frescobaldi toccata
toccata no. 3
what four dance styles are typically included in a dance suite
allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue
who is Elizabeth claude Jaquet de la Guerre
a darling of the court of Louis XIV, she had great success in paris as a composer, teacher, and performer. she also was the first female composer to put on an opera cephale et procris
what is the example of Jaquet de la Guerre that we looked at
suite in A minor (unmeasured prelude and allemande)
