MAPEH Baroque Period Music. Flashcards
Derived from the Portuguese term barocco, meaning oddly shaped pearl.
Baroque.
Revealed the elegance, grandeur, extravagance, and perfection of all the things in society.
Baroque Period.
Baroque Period Date.
1600 to 1750.
A period or style of Western Music from around 1600 to 1750.
Baroque Music.
Aimed to evoke emotion in the audience by contrasting dynamic and tempo.
Baroque Music.
Explored the range of emotions that people could feel through words and songs.
Baroque Music and Art.
A sudden change from one dynamic level to another, or playing around with a note instead of simply playing the note.
Terraced Dynamics.
Performances are usually big and grand.
Baroque Music.
Invented in the baroque era, it is considered to be the foundation of music writing. Made innovations in their music using this technique.
Harmonic Analysis.
Baroque Music Forms:
Concerto Grosso and Fugue.
Italian words for “big concert”, utilizes an ensemble of a group of soloists.
Concerto Grosso.
Ensemble of a group of soloists.
Concertino.
Concerto Grosso, full orchestra.
Ripieno.
Somewhat similar to a round song. Uses interwoven melodies based on a single musical idea.
Fugue.
It developed from an earlier idea from the Renaissance period called imitative polyphony.
Fugue.
Fugue developed from an earlier idea from the Renaissance period called
Imitative polyphony.
Where multiple singers would sin the same melody at different points in time.
Imitative polyphony.
Baroque Vocal Forms and Styles.
Oratorio, Chorale, and Recitative.
Written either as independent pieces or as parts of a larger work.
Fugue.
Uses a narrative singer to tell the story.
Oratorio.
Large religious-themed compositional work for soloists, choir, and orchestra. Significant to Baroque churches.
Oratorio.
Opera is __, while oratorio is ___
Extravagant and simple, respectively.
Deals with history, mythology, romance, deception , or murder.
Opera.
Deals with sacred topics for performance inside churches, though sometimes in halls and courts.
Oratorio.
Protestant composers used the ___ for their song themes.
Bible.
Catholic composers talk about the ___.
Lives of saints.
Sing-talk manner. This particular technique was first done in Baroque operas.
Recitatives.
Many musicians today arrange songs fresh from the radio’s Top 20 into four voices. Started 300 years ago.
Chorale music.
Melody in which a hymn is sung by a congregation in a protestant church service in Germany.
Chorale.
Usually has a four-part setting where the sopranos and the congregation sing the melody together with three lower voices, alto, tenor and bass.
Chorale.
The ___ melodies were borrowed from secular songs and, therefore, displayed great melodic and structural ___.
Lutheran Chorales and Simplicity.
Easy and singable.
Lutheran Chorales.
Lutheran Chorale, words are usually sung in a rhyming manner in a?
Strophic form.
Greatest Baroque Composers.
Johann Sebastien Bach, and George Frideric Handel.
Orphaned at the age of 10, Older brother music copy.
Johann Sebastien Bach.
Had a sweet soprano vocal timbre. Helped secure him a spot in school.
Johann Sebastien Bach
Bach’s were composed to help counts and dukes overcome?
Insomnia.
His lawyer father did not support his son’s musical dreams.
George Frideric Handel.
As a kid, he had to sneak a clavichord up the attic to pay and practice in secret.
George Frideric Handel.
While on a trip with his father, someone put him in front of an organ. To the surprise of everyone, he bagan to play. Alodf 1 was so impressed.
George Frideric Handel.
Nicknamed “The Great Bear”, because of his size, nature, and way of walking.
George Frideric Handel.
Handel’s age and date of death.
1759 at age 74 in London.
