Mystery Score #3: Terms - INCOMPLETE

Question 1

Baroque

Answer 1

• New craving for mimesis: realistic representation
• Expansion of style consciousness
• Representation in Music: both vocal and instrumental
• The Galilean period (Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton)
• The Cartesian period (René Descartes)
• The “Italian” Age (Venetian influence: Instrumental Music and Opera)
• The Theatrical Age
• The Continuo Age

Question 2

First/Second Practice

Answer 2

(Italian, ‘first practice’) Claudio Monteverdi’s term for the style and practice of sixteenth-century POLYPHONY, in contradistinction to the SECONDA PRATICA. (page 298)

Question 3

Monody

Answer 3

solo voice accompanied by basso continuo

Question 4

Basso Continuo

Answer 4

Cello (viol), lute, harpsichord

Question 5

Figured Bass

Answer 5

Harmonic Shorthand. Keyboard Player’s harmonies notated in Figured Bass.

Question 6

Mimesis

Answer 6

realistic representation

Question 7

Concerted Style

Answer 7

1

Question 8

Occasional Music

Answer 8

1

Question 9

Recitative

Answer 9

1

Question 10

Aria

Answer 10

1

Question 11

Strophic Aria

Answer 11

1

Question 12

Choral Madrigal

Answer 12

1

Question 13

Chorus

Answer 13

1

Question 14

Lament

Answer 14

1

Question 15

Phenomenal/Noumenal Music

Answer 15

1

Question 16

Narrator/Historicus

Answer 16

1

Question 17

Ground Bass Aria

Answer 17

1

Question 18

Idiomatic

Answer 18

1

Question 19

Improvisation

Answer 19

1

Question 20

Partitura

Answer 20

1

Question 21

Absolutism

Answer 21

1

Question 22

“24 Grand Violins of the King”

Answer 22

1

Question 23

Spectacle

Answer 23

1

Question 24

Verisimilitude

Answer 24

1

Question 25

Style luthé or style brisé

Answer 25

1

Question 26

Agréments (ornaments)

Answer 26

1

Question 27

French Overture

Answer 27

1

Question 28

Divertissement

Answer 28

In TRAGÉDIE EN MUSIQUE, a long interlude of BALLET, solo AIRS, choral singing, and spectacle, intended as entertainment. (page 356)

Question 29

Consort

Answer 29

English name (current ca. 1575 - 1700) for a group of instruments. (page 267)

Question 30

Incidental Music

Answer 30

1

Question 31

Stage Machinery

Answer 31

1

Question 32

Da Capo Aria

Answer 32

ARIA FORM with two sections. The first section is repeated after the second section’s close, which carries the instruction da capo (Italian, ‘from the head’), creating an ABA FORM. (page 381)

Question 33

Ritornello

Answer 33

(aria) (1) In a fourteenth-century MADRIGAL, the closing section, in a different METER from the preceding verses. (2) In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century vocal music, instrumental introduction or interlude between sung stanzas. (3) In an ARIA or similar piece, an instrumental passage that recurs several times, like a REFRAIN. Typically, it is played at the beginning, as interludes (often in modified form), and again at the end, and it states the main THEME. (4) In a fast MOVEMENT of a CONCERTO, the recurring thematic material played at the beginning by the full ORCHESTRA and repeated, usually in varied form, throughout the movement and at the end. (page 314)

Question 34

Episode

Answer 34

1

Question 35

Binary Form

Answer 35

1

Question 36

Fugue: Subject, Answer, Countersubject

Answer 36

1

Question 37

Orgelbüchlein

Answer 37

1

Question 38

Well-Tempered Clavier

Answer 38

1

Question 39

Fortspinnung

Answer 39

1

Question 40

Accompanied Recitative

Answer 40

1