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Test 2 Flashcards

Learn about the baroque, classical and something eras.

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Baroque instruments

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Violin, harpsichord, corrnetto, lute/theorbo

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stradivarius

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last name of guy that made amazing violins, normalized template for making modern violin

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Trio sonata

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normally had four people in it: two violins, one viola, two base parts(basso continuo)

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Basso continuo

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bass melody of trio sonata, had chordal instruments and a bass: ex baroque cello and harpsichord

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baroque orchestra

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mainly had string family:violin cello, viola, harpsichord was composer: sometimes there was no composer

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Antonio Vivaldi

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red priest, worked in ospedalle della pieta (orphanage), played to “funraise” for it, concierto composer, virtuoso, italian, venis,

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Virtuoso

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someone naturally gifted, best of the best

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Baroque Era

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17th-mid 18th century, 1600-1750, complex ornamented music, “grotesque, ornamented, excessive”

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barocco

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spanish term for deformed pearl

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baroque art

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Lavish ornaments, extreme detail, excessive decoration

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baroque music

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excessive decoration, fill in chords, homophonic music, twangy harpsichord, dissonance , instrumental music,homophony, basso continuo, ensebles, idea of standarization

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Caccini

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one of the founders of opera

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florentine camerata

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rich phylosophers and artist , invented opera to interpret their ideas, homophony

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Jacopo peri

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Florencia camerata

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Key thing of operas

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Were not flowy- had things called, arias and recitatives

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Aria

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Singing a song lika a song

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Recitative

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Giving a speech with kinda song

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Overture

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Orchestra plays music so everyone will shut up

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Instrumental interludes

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Part of opera

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Dido and Aeneas

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Henry Purcell

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Didos lament

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Aria within an opera, sang to her best friend belinda

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Ostinato

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When you have a repeating melody that goes on during most of the piece

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libretto

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written text of an opera

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librettist

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the person who wrote the text of the opera

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Antonio stradivarius

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Baroque, italy, violin make,

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trio sonata (genre)

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4 people, two solosit, basso continuo

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Concierto (genre)

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Genre vivaldi would write in, soloist vs orchestra, multi movement (label of concierto based on piece), 3 movements. fast-slow-fast, Ritornello

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movement

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mini piece in big song (part of piece)

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Ritornello (form)

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seen in outer movement of concierto, piece w/ ritornello in it

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Ritornello

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returning section w/ orchestra, home key-new key-homekey

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La primavera

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1 concierto, symphony No. 40, programmatic, first thing we hear is ritornello

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programmatic

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has story to go with it, story told before hand

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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(1685-1750) was in collegium musicum, cantata, baroque era ended w/ him, fugue, organ player, born in Leipzig, famous after 70yrs of death, kapellmeister, 4 churches 4 cities, school teacher

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Leipzig

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oligarchy (rule by the people)

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canatata

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30min piece for singing

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collegium musicum

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group of amateurish musicians, instrumental works, public concerts (ticketed), liked to perform in zimmerman’s coffee house

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Fugue

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written by bach, genre, polyphonic, retrograde, immersion, augmentation, diminution, monothematic, exposition, every single voice gets a turn to sing the entire fugue

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exposition

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exposes you to theme, 1 voice state theme completly

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monothematic

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having a single dominating theme especially : having a theme continuing through more than one movement of a musical composition.

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organ

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played with feet and hands, aerophone

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George Frideric Handle

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german, worked in england studied in italy, oratorio guy

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oratorio

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sacred, not acted out, chirstian, vernacular

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oratorio and opera

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singers in orchestra, same scoring: arias, recitatives, overtures, interludes, choral, story lines, characters

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vernacular

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when piece is written in the language of place where it was written

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classical period

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mid 18th century to end of 18th, 1750’s to 1800’s, apollonian, concerts

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concerts

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impersario,patronage system or freelancer

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impersario

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sold tickets

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patronage

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work for city or court

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freelancer

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public as paetron become more free

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Vienna, Austria

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mecca of classical music

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sonata in c major

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mozart, 1st piece polyphonic, 2nd homophonic, complex

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sonata (form)

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single movement, more complex, heart of classical music

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sonata (genre)

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solo instrument w/ keyboard, chambre/ 3 movements, 1st movement can be in sonata form

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3 movement

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1st sonata form (fast, tonic), 2nd theme of variation form (slow, not tonic), 3rd sonata form (tonic, fast). concierto and sonata

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symphony (form?)

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4 movement, 1st and last movements in sonata form,

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minuetes

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symphony not intened to be danced to only listened, triple meter

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string quartet

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chambre music, 4 players,

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recapitulation

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repites exposition but in different key

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concierto

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soloist vs orchestra, labled concierto based on solo instrument, first alernation

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concierto

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soloist vs orchestra, labled concierto based on solo instrument, first alernation

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first alernation

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concierto starts w/ whole orchestra then soloist come in

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chambre music

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sonata and quartet

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not chambre

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symphony and concierto

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4 movement

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symphony and string quartet

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Ludwig Van Beethoven

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classical & romantic, Haydn teacher after Mozart dead, Antonio Salier new teacher, gave piano lessons, chambre concerts in salons,opus

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