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Unit III: Late Renaissance & Early Baroque Flashcards

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What mass style did the Church adopt in the 1500s?

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Parody mass

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Netherlanders were influenced by what regions?

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Italy, Southern Germany

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How many voices were standard after 1550?

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5-6

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Gombert

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  • Madrid, Vienna, Brussels
  • Pervasive imitation, points of imitation
  • Smooth, continuous, few rests
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Clemens

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  • Bruges
  • Dutch psalm books (4) in 3 parts
  • Clearer phrases than Gombert
  • Word setting
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Senfl

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  • Munich
  • A Swiss
  • Finished Isaac’s Choralis Constantinus
  • Wrote for both churches
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Willaert

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  • Netherlander in Italy
  • Text and music!
  • Maestro at St. Marks
  • Polychoral style
  • Trained others
  • Church modes
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Frottola style

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4-voice, homorhythmic, syllabic, dance-like, secular, top melody

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Frottola composers

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Cara, Trombocino

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Villancico

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Spanish version of frottola

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Polyphonic lauda

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Sacred, nonliturgical version of frottola, with melody from a secular song

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Most important secular genre of 16th century

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Madrigal

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Through-composed

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Characteristic of madrigals; non-strophic, new music for each new line of poetry

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Madrigal poets

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Petrarch, Bembo, Tasso, Guarini

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Earliest madrigals resembled what?

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Frottola; but later the madrigal had more continuous and overlapping phrases than the frottola

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Madrigalists in Florence

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Verdelot, Pisano, Layolle

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Madrigalists in Rome

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Verdelot, Pisano, Festa

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Madrigalists in Venice

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Willaert, Arcadelt

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Name Bembo’s two emotional categories derived from his study of Petrarch’s poetry.

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Piacevolezza (pleasingness) and gravità (seriousness), often alternated for contrast.

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Rore

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Midcentury madrigalist; alternated textures, meter, and length of note values freely. Concerned with emotional details of text.

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Name the three Netherlanders of the third generation of madrigalists.

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Orlando di Lasso, Phillipe de Monte, and Giaches de Wert

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Name the three Italians of the third generation of madrigalists.

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Marenzio, Gesualdo, Monteverdi

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De Monte

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Vienna, Prague; 32 books of madrigals.

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Di Lasso

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Musical cosmopolitan, mastered every national form of his time. Highly sensitive to text. Turned almost entirely to sacred music later in life.

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De Wert

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Influenced by Rore; wide leaps, recitative-like declamation, and strong contrasts. Influenced Monteverdi.

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Marenzio

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5-part madrigals; musical depiction of feeling and visual details; his work the crowning achievement of the Italian madrigal.

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Gesualdo

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Chromaticism, intense emotional states

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Monteverdi

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Key transitional figure to early Baroque; eight books of madrigals show this evolution in style; late works foreshadow recitative; wrote out his vocal ornaments.

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Villanella/Villanelle

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Naples c. 1540, strophic form imitating popular song using parallel fifths; 3-voice homorhythm.

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Canzonetta

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Italy c. 1560; clear harmonies and distinct, even phrases, many repeats

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Balletto

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“Fa-la-la” refrains used; for dancing, with dance rhythms

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What composers masters the non-madrigal polyphonic forms of the 1500s?

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Gastoldi, Banchieri, Vecchi

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Who was the first French printer? What year did he begin printing in Paris?

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Attaignant, 1528

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Parisian Chanson

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Characterized by many repeated notes; 4-voice, light, fast, homorhythmic

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Composers of Parisian Chansons

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Sermisy, Jannequin

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Composers of French chansons that were more contrapuntally complex than the Parisian chanson

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Gombert, Manchicourt, Clemens, Crequillon, Le Jeune, Costeley, Mauduit

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Air de cour

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Dominant vocal form in France after 1580; a solo singer with lute accompaniment

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Who attempted to write French poetry using classic Greek and Latin poetic meter?

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Antoine de Baïf

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Musique mesurée

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A homophonic, multi-metered French style of music imitating the meter of class Greek and Latin poetry.

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When did the Franco-Flemish contrapuntal style reach Germany?

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The 1530’s

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Lied

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A German vernacular polyphonic song with melody in top voice OR tenor; eventually took on madrigal-like qualities.

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Which German composers are known for combining German melodic material with Franco-Flemish counterpoint?

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Isaac, Finch, Hofhaimer, Senfl

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Quodlibet

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A German medium; a ragged compendium of popular tunes juxtaposing texts for humor

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Hans Leo Hassler

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Greatest German composer in the latter 1500s; combined Italian finesse with German characteristics.

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What book brought Italian part song to England in 1588?

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Yonge’s Musica Transalpina

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English madrigalists

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Morley, Weelkes, Wilbye

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The Triumphs of Oriana

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A collection of English madrigals compiled by Morley

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English lute song composers

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Dowland, Campion

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Lute song

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Solo voice accompanied by lute, with arrangements for vocal ensemble

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Consort song

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Vocal solo or duet over a viol ensemble; mastered by William Byrd

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Michael Praetorius’ treatise on instrumental music

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Syntagma Musicum

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Most popular household instrument of the Renaissance

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Lute

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Form of notation use in lute, viol, and keyboard music

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Tablature

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The canzona da sonar resembled an instrumental version of what?

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French chansons

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Pairs of instrumental dances

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  • Pavane, galliard

- Passamezzo, saltarello

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Which dances were essential to the Baroque Suite?

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Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue

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A strophic congregational hymn which began as a monophonic song

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Lutheran chorale

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Contrapuntal settings of chorale tunes with the melody in the tenor

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Chorale motets; Johann Walter was a noted chorale motet composer

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What is cantional style?

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“Hymn style” of the chorale in which the melody is in the soprano with block chords beneath.

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Who were the primary composers of cantional-style chorales?

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Hans Leo Hassler, Michael Praetorius, and Johann Hermann Schein

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What psalter, prepared by Loys Bourgeois, was the most important of the mid-1500s?

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The Genevan Psalter

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Composers of French psalm settings

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Goudimel, Le Jeune

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English Psalter used by the separatists living in Holland

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The Ainsworth Psalter, prepared by Henry Ainsworth

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The first American psalter

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The Bay Psalm Book

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English Church composers of the 1500s

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Taverner, Tye, Tallis, Byrd

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Who was the most notable English Church composer of the 16th century?

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Thomas Tallis, who wrote “Lamentations of Jeremiah” and “Spem in alium”

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The composer/organist known as the “finest hand in England”

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Orlando Gibbons

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Great service

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Anglican Church form with contrapuntal and melismatic settings.

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Short service

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Anglican Church form with chordal and syllabic settings; less elaborate than a great service

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Anthem

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In the Anglican Church, an English-texted piece resembling the Latin motet.

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Full anthem

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Anglican Church a cappella piece in contrapuntal style

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Verse anthem

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Anglican Church piece with soloists and chorus accompanied by instruments

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When did the Council of Trent convene?

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1545-1563

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What Church music practices did the Council of Trent find fault with?

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  • They opposed the use of secular cantus firmi.
  • They thought polyphony obscured the liturgical text.
  • They claimed instruments were used improperly in Church music.
  • They claimed musicians were disrespectful of the clergy.
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Name the most important Church composer of the Renaissance.

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Palestrina, the first composer whose words were conscientiously preserved and studied

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What style did Palestrina master?

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Franco-Flemish counterpoint

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What is Palestrina’s most famous work?

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Missa Papae Marcelli

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Name Palestrina’s church contemporaries.

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Neri, Nanino, and Anerio

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Name the Spanish composers prominent during the late 1500s.

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Tomas Luis de Victoria (who wrote Missa O Magnum Mysterium), Christobal de Morales, and Francisco Guerrero

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William Byrd

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First English composer to comfortably use the continental style; so highly esteemed that he wrote for the royal chapel even as a Roman Catholic.

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What years does the Baroque period encompass?

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1600-1750

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Instead of the Church, musicians in the 1600s relied increasingly on the patronage of the ______.

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wealthy/aristocracy

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prima prattica

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In Baroque music, the “old” Franco-Flemish contrapuntal style in which music dominated words.

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seconda prattica

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In Baroque music, the new practice in which words dominated music; rules could be broken for the sake of emotional expression.

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Name the three musical styles developed in the early Baroque period.

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  • a church style
  • a chamber music style
  • a theatrical style
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Describe the Baroque doctrine of the affections.

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Composers thought music should arouse emotions in the listener; they attempted to create musical depictions of emotions even in solely instrumental music.

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By what year were bar lines standard?

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1650

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How many instruments were required for basso continuo?

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Two; a keyboard instrument and a bass instrument.

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Name two early Baroque organists.

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Frescobaldi and Froberger

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By about 1670, most music was ______ rather than modal.

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tonal (major/minor)

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The use of basso continuo fostered ________ thinking rather than melodic/linear thinking.

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harmonic/vertical

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An __________ is a drama that combines soliloquy, dialogue, scenery, action, and continuous (or nearly continuous) music.

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opera

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Name the three sources of opera.

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  • Intermezzo
  • Madrigal comedy
  • Pastoral poetry
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Name the association of noblemen who met periodically to discuss philosophical and scientific matters in the 1570’s.

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The Florentine Camerata

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What authority on ancient Greek music and theater claimed that the power of Greek music lay in its monophonic character, condemning the madrigal as a means of poetic expression?

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Girolamo Mei

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Which two composers wrote the first operas, settings of L’Euridice?

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Jacopo Peri (1600) and Giulio Caccini (1602)

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What vocal style, pioneered by Peri, imitated the natural inflections of speech with a melodic line above a long, sustained bass?

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Recitative style (stile recitativo)

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Name the first notable oratorio.

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Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo

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A single vocal line with instrumental accompaniment is called _______.

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monody

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Name Monteverdi’s first opera.

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L’Orfeo (1607)

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After its birth in Florence, opera developed more extensively in the city of _________.

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Rome

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Name two Roman opera composers.

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Stefano Landi and Luigi Rossi

103
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Name Monteverdi’s last two operas.

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Ulysses (1641) and Poppea (1642)

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Where did opera spread (and make a lasting home) after reaching Rome?

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Venice

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Name two features of opera established by 1650 that remained for over two centuries.

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  • A concentration on solo vocal music, as opposed to ensemble and instrumental
  • The separation of aria and recitative into two distinct styles and functions
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Name two Venetian opera composers.

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Cavalli (Monteverdi’s pupil) and Cesti

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Strophic variation

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What occurs when a work uses the same basic harmonic and melodic plan for each strophe, but the music is varied in order to facilitate the text and expression.

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Concertato medium

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Instruments of differing timbre used together in harmonious ensemble

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Stile concitato

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“Agitated style;” rapid and prolonged reiteration of a single note to create excitement and enhance dramatic expression

110
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Name the four trends of musical style in the early 17th century.

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  • Monody combines with the madrigal
  • Form generated from bass patterns (and their resulting harmonies) along with the introduction of ritornellos (instrumental refrains)
  • The concertato medium provides variety of texture
  • Arias begin to be clearly delineated from recitative.
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A composition for basso continuo and solo voice on a lyrical or quasi-dramatic text; used several sections of both recitative and aria.

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Cantata

112
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Name three early cantata composers.

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Rossi, Carissimi, Strozzi

113
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Name the musical hub of the early Baroque period.

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Venice

114
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This early Baroque Catholic Church form used massive ensembles and often multiple choirs.

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Grand concerto

115
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This early Baroque Catholic Church form used several soloists with organ continuo, often imitating the sound of polyphony, like in Viadana’s Cento concerti esslesiatici.

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Small-scale sacred concerto

116
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Who was the greatest German composer c. 1650, said to have composed the first German opera (Dafne)?

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Heinrich Schutz

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The ricercare, fantasia, and sonata of the early Baroque all used what style?

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Fugal style in continuous imitative counterpoint.

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