Mystery Score #3: Genres - INCOMPLETE

Question 1

Madrigal

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Question 2

Musical Tale (Favole in Musica)

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Question 3

Opera

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(Italian, ‘work’) Drama with continuous or nearly continuous music, staged with scenery, costumes, and action. (page 307)

Question 4

Oratorio (Italian and English)

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GENRE of dramatic music that originated in the seventeenth century, combining narrative, dialogue, and commentary through ARIAS, RECITATIVES, ENSEMBLES, CHORUSES, and instrumental music, like an unstaged OPERA. Usually on a religious or biblical subject. (page 336)

Question 5

Cantata (Italian and German)

Answer 5

(vocal chamber music) (Italian, ‘to be sung’) (1) In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a vocal chamber work with continuo, usually for solo voice, consisting of several sections or movements that include recitatives and arias and setting a lyrical or quasi-dramatic text. (2) Form of Lutheran church music in the eighteenth century, combining poetic texts with texts drawn from chorales or the Bible, and including recitatives, arias, chorale settings, and usually one or more choruses. (3) In later eras, a work for soloists, chorus, and orchestra in several movements but smaller than an oratorio. (page 331)

Question 6

Sacred Concerto

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In the seventeenth century, a COMPOSITION on a sacred text for one or more singers and instrumental accompaniment. (page 301)

Question 7

Toccata

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(Italian, ‘touched’) Piece for keyboard instrument or LUTE resembling an IMPROVISATION that may include IMITATIVE sections or may serve as a PRELUDE to an independent FUGUE. (page 279)

Question 8

Sonata

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(Italian, ‘sounded’) (1) A piece to be played on one or more instruments. (2) BAROQUE instrumental piece with contrasting sections or MOVEMENTS, often with IMITATIVE COUNTERPOINT. (3) GENRE in several movements for one or two solo instruments. (page 343)

Question 9

Tragedie lyrique

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Question 10

Keyboard Suite

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Suite: A set of pieces that are linked together into a single work. During the BAROQUE PERIOD, a suite usually referred to a set of stylized DANCE pieces. (page 349)

Question 11

Unmeasured Prelude

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A French BAROQUE keyboard GENRE, usually the first MOVEMENT in a SUITE, whose nonmetric NOTATION gives a feeling of IMPROVISATION. (page 366)

Question 12

Dance movements

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Question 13

Masque

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Question 14

In nomine Settings

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Question 15

Grand Motet

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French version of the large-scale SACRED CONCERTO, for soloists, double CHORUS, and ORCHESTRA. (page 362)

Question 16

Te Deum

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Question 17

Passacaglia

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BAROQUE GENRE of VARIATIONS over a repeated BASS line or HARMONIC PROGRESSION in triple METER. (page 348)

Question 18

Concerto (grosso)

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Instrumental work that exploits the contrast in sonority between a small ENSEMBLE of solo instruments (concertino), usually the same forces that appeared in the TRIO SONATA, and a large ENSEMBLE (RIPIENO or concerto grosso). (page 390)

Question 19

Prelude and Fugue

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Introductory piece for solo instrument, often in the style of an IMPROVISATION, or introductory MOVEMENT in a multimovement work such as an OPERA or SUITE. (page 265)

(from Italian fuga, ‘flight’) COMPOSITION or section of a composition in IMITATIVE TEXTURE that is based on a single SUBJECT and begins with successive statements of the subject in voices. (page 345)

Question 20

Chorale Prelude

Answer 20

Relatively short setting for organ of a CHORALE MELODY, used as an introduction for congregational singing or as an interlude in a Lutheran church service. (page 348)