MAPEH Baroque Period Music.

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Derived from the Portuguese term barocco, meaning oddly shaped pearl.

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Baroque.

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Revealed the elegance, grandeur, extravagance, and perfection of all the things in society.

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Baroque Period.

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Baroque Period Date.

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1600 to 1750.

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A period or style of Western Music from around 1600 to 1750.

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Baroque Music.

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Aimed to evoke emotion in the audience by contrasting dynamic and tempo.

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Baroque Music.

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Explored the range of emotions that people could feel through words and songs.

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Baroque Music and Art.

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A sudden change from one dynamic level to another, or playing around with a note instead of simply playing the note.

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Terraced Dynamics.

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Performances are usually big and grand.

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Baroque Music.

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Invented in the baroque era, it is considered to be the foundation of music writing. Made innovations in their music using this technique.

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Harmonic Analysis.

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Baroque Music Forms:

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Concerto Grosso and Fugue.

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Italian words for “big concert”, utilizes an ensemble of a group of soloists.

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Concerto Grosso.

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Ensemble of a group of soloists.

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Concertino.

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Concerto Grosso, full orchestra.

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Ripieno.

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Somewhat similar to a round song. Uses interwoven melodies based on a single musical idea.

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Fugue.

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It developed from an earlier idea from the Renaissance period called imitative polyphony.

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Fugue.

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Fugue developed from an earlier idea from the Renaissance period called

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Imitative polyphony.

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Where multiple singers would sin the same melody at different points in time.

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Imitative polyphony.

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Baroque Vocal Forms and Styles.

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Oratorio, Chorale, and Recitative.

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Written either as independent pieces or as parts of a larger work.

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Fugue.

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Uses a narrative singer to tell the story.

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Oratorio.

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Large religious-themed compositional work for soloists, choir, and orchestra. Significant to Baroque churches.

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Oratorio.

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Opera is __, while oratorio is ___

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Extravagant and simple, respectively.

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Deals with history, mythology, romance, deception , or murder.

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Opera.

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Deals with sacred topics for performance inside churches, though sometimes in halls and courts.

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Oratorio.

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Protestant composers used the ___ for their song themes.

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Bible.

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Catholic composers talk about the ___.

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Lives of saints.

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Sing-talk manner. This particular technique was first done in Baroque operas.

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Recitatives.

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Many musicians today arrange songs fresh from the radio’s Top 20 into four voices. Started 300 years ago.

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Chorale music.

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Melody in which a hymn is sung by a congregation in a protestant church service in Germany.

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Chorale.

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Usually has a four-part setting where the sopranos and the congregation sing the melody together with three lower voices, alto, tenor and bass.

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Chorale.

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The ___ melodies were borrowed from secular songs and, therefore, displayed great melodic and structural ___.

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Lutheran Chorales and Simplicity.

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Easy and singable.

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Lutheran Chorales.

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Lutheran Chorale, words are usually sung in a rhyming manner in a?

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Strophic form.

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Greatest Baroque Composers.

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Johann Sebastien Bach, and George Frideric Handel.

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Orphaned at the age of 10, Older brother music copy.

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Johann Sebastien Bach.

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Had a sweet soprano vocal timbre. Helped secure him a spot in school.

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Johann Sebastien Bach

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Bach’s were composed to help counts and dukes overcome?

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Insomnia.

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His lawyer father did not support his son’s musical dreams.

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George Frideric Handel.

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As a kid, he had to sneak a clavichord up the attic to pay and practice in secret.

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George Frideric Handel.

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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.

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George Frideric Handel.

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Nicknamed “The Great Bear”, because of his size, nature, and way of walking.

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George Frideric Handel.

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Handel’s age and date of death.

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1759 at age 74 in London.