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When was the baroque period?   1600 - 1750  
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Age of Kings with absolute rule   Age of Absolutism  
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Known for drama, passion and action   Baroque Art  
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The idea that a piece of music should endorse a single emotion   Doctrine of Affections  
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Music that only uses instruments   Instrumental music  
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Individual sections of music that when put together, comprise an entire piece   Movements  
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A musical structure that establishes a starting point, moves far away from it, then returns home   Tonality  
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The home key   Tonic  
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The far away key   Dominant  
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A way to organize sound that is not related to worlds, and allows composers to create expectation in instrumental music   Musical Form  
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A two section form with repetition, AABB   Binary Dance form  
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Genre that uses Binary Dance form   Dance suite  
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A piece for larger orchestra that contrasts the sound of a small group and large group   Concerto  
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Alternating between large and small groups, the form used in the FIRST movement of a concerto   Concerto Form  
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The music that the entire group plays when the focus is not on these soloist   Ritornello  
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A style of singing with a lot of notes   Coloratura  
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ABA' form where the last section is supposed to be ornamented by the singer through improvisation   Da Capo Aria  
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Genre that uses Da Capo Aria   Baroque Opera  
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A type of polyphonic music with strict limitation   Fugue  
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The melody that is repeated in each voice of a fugue   Subject  
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The beginning of a piece, when the subject appears sequentially in each voice of a fugue   Exposition  
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Imrpovisatory-like music in a fugue   Episodes  
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An instrument genre with four movements, general slow-fast-slow-fast.   Sonata  
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Two different kinds of sonatas   Sonata da Chiesa, Sonata de Camera  
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A single instrument backed up by a keyboard and bass instrument   Solo Sonata  
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Two solos backed by a keyboard and bass instrument   Trio Sonata  
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Pieces that have solo singers, small orchestra, and a choir   Cantata  
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How many cantatas did Bach write?   300  
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Some kind of grand orchestral section   The beginning of a cantata  
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Alternation between recitative and aria   The middle of a cantata  
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A chorale   The end of a cantata  
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Very basic choral piece tied to the Lutheran religion   Chorale  
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A big cantata, tells a story, most likely biblical   Oratorio  
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German musician who wrote italian music in England   Handel  
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Classical Period   1750-1830  
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There are abstract ideas that the world creates approximations of   Platonic ideas  
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Musicians are interested in form and organization, balance, symmetry   Result of the platonic ideas of Classical period  
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The rise of rational thought in Western culture   Enlightenment  
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The idea that enlightenment philosophy can make monarchies better for everyone   Enlightened Absolutism  
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Created a new revenue source for musicians in the area of selling music to amateur musicians   Rise of Middle class  
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New Genres created in the Classical period   Symphony, sonata, string quartet  
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Orchestral piece with 4 movements and follows fast-slow-dance-fast order   Symphony  
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Chamber music played by 2 violins, one viola, one cello, that follows fast-slow-dance-fast order   String Quartet  
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Became more defined than in baroque period, with the number of movements changed, basso continuo group goes away   Sonata  
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Fast-slow-fast   Order of Sonata  
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Exposision, development, recapitulation   Sonata form  
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Introduction of two themes in sonata form   Exposition  
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An improvisatory section in which the composer chops up the material in the exposition and creates new music by mixing them in a variety of keys   Development  
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Both themes return but this time they're both in the same key (tonic)   Recapitulation  
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It's used in the Sonata genre, symphony and string quartet, and almost always the first movement   Sonata form  
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A B A C A D A, more catchy than sonatas   Rondo form  
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Becomes one of the artistic capitols of Europe in the classical period   Vienna, Austria  
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One of the primary goals of music in the classical period   Entertainment  
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Becomes more important in classical period   Folk music  
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Created by someone who studies the technique of art   High art  
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Made by folk artists, who don't have formal training   Low art  
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Classical period is considered (this) while baroque is more complex   Simplistic  
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Why have differences in conceptions of complexity?   If you want the common listener to listen, you make it understandable  
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The father of the symphony   Haydn  
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An adjective that describes a person with natural genius   Mozartian  
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A secret piece of the Vatican, no written copy of the music existed outside the church   Miserere  
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Musics that existed between the baroque and classical periods   Transitional Music  
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Dark emotional music known for a lack of structure   Sturm und Drang  
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Easy listening music   Gallant  
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The style of music is almost always directly dependent on...   Technology of instruments  
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repetition that makes your music memorable   Formulas  
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Most common instrument that sonatas were written for   piano  
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flashy pieces meant to show off technique of the player   Concertos  
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