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Test 3 - Baroque Period Flashcards

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Florence Camerata

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-Informal gatherings of noblemen and musicians where they talk about poetry, music, philosophy, literature, and ancient greek culture

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monody

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  • style
  • early 17th century Italian vocal music
  • accp = basso continuo
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predecessor: intermedi

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performed between acts of plays

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strophic variation

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-ONLY bass repeats in each verse

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oratorio

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  • large scale work for voice and orchestra
  • extended musical setting of text
  • religious ethical subject matter
  • narrative/dramatic/contemplative elements
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passus duriusculis

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descending chromatic tetrachord

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toccata

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  • keyboard
  • introductory
  • virtuostic
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prelude

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  • introductory
  • improvisatory
  • identical in style and function to toccata
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style fantasticus

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  • for instruments
  • most free method of composing
  • bound to neither words/melodic subject
  • display genius
  • teach hidden design of harmony
  • composition of harmonic phrases/fugues
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baroque suite

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  • “to follow”
  • series of dances
  • all movements in the same key
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allemande

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  • quadruple meter
  • serious mood
  • moderately slow tempo
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courante

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  • in 3
  • italian: fast
  • french: moderate
  • hemiola, stile brise, counterpoint
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sarabande

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  • slow triple meter

- accented 2nd beat

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gigue

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  • fast

- compound duple

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sonata de chiesa

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  • church sonata

- 4 movements

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concerto

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-join together/fight
-early baroque - heterogeneous
(group of people playing)
-high baroque - homogenous
-soloist + orchestra
-3 movements

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concerto grosso

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-full ensemble
or
small group of soloists
-3 movements

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early composers

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Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Caccini

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middle composers

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Lully, Carissimi, Buxtehude, Schutz

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late composers

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Bach, Handel, Corelli, Vivaldi, Couperin

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lyric monody

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  • continuuo madrigal: solo voice and basso continuo

- airs: strophic/strophic variation

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dramatic monody

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  • imitate speech
  • many repeated notes
  • avoidance of virtuosity
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basso continuo

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  • composed bass line

- improvised harmonies

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oratorians

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  • music=central to daily meetings

- sense of community/joy

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Caccini (composer)

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-singer/lutenist
-attended Florence Camerata
-works:
opera (Euridice)
solo madrigals (Le nuove musiche)

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Monteverdi

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  • Student of Marc’ Antonio Ingegneri
  • 1601 - Maestro di Cappella Mantua
  • 1613 -Maestro di Cappella San Marco, Venice
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Monteverdi: Orfeo

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  • Renaissance Styles: madrigals, dance music, canzonettas
  • Baroque Styles: stile recitativo
  • large, colorful orchestra
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Incoronazione di Poppea

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  • music by Monteverdi and collaborators
  • Libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello
    • based on Roman Histories
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Cavalli

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  • longer arias

- clear distinction between recite and aria

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Scarletti

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  • da capo arias
  • less expressive recitative
  • regular alternation between recite and aria
  • emphasis on aria
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Corelli

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  • Italian composer/violinist

- genres: solo sonata, trio sonata, and concerto

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sonata da camera

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  • series of dances

- embodied format associated later with Corelli: introductory free movement followed by 2 - 4 dances

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Vivaldi

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  • Italian composer
  • laid the foundations for the mature Baroque concerto
  • pioneer of orchestral program music
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cantata

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  • composite vocal genre
  • recitative, ariosos, set-pieces
  • secular or sacred
  • treatment = lyrical, allegorical, dramatic
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French Overture

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-moderate duple meter:
dotted rhythms predominate
fast notes on weak beats
-Fast triple meter
Quasi fugal

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