instrumental music late renaissance early baroque Flashcards

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wgat are four examples of fugal like instrumental pieces of this era

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Fantasia, Ricercare, Verset, Capriccio

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what is a fantasia

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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.

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what is the monothematic fantasia and who is a master of it

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a precursor to the fugue, based on one subject and its permutations. Sweelink eas one of the masters of this music

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what two types of fantasias did Sweelink write

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monothematic and echo

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what is sweelinks most famous work

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Fantasia Chromatica

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what techniques does fantasia chromatica use

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augmentation, diminution, countersubjects

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What is a toccata

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a piece intended as a display of manual dexterity, almost always for solo keyboard instrument.

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who is one of the forerunners of the toccata

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Girolamo Frescobaldi

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what is the example we looked at in class of a frescobaldi toccata

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toccata no. 3

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what four dance styles are typically included in a dance suite

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allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue

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who is Elizabeth claude Jaquet de la Guerre

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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

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what is the example of Jaquet de la Guerre that we looked at

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suite in A minor (unmeasured prelude and allemande)

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