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Music History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the Dates for Baroque Era? | 1600-1750 |
| What is the meaning of the end date? | the death of Bach |
| What does Baroque mean? | Misshapen peral |
| What was the music like? | abnormal, exaggerated, bazaar, and bad taste |
| What did the music become? | Ornate and decorated |
| What is first Practice? | Like madrigals, limited to certain rules like dissonaces Limited harmonically and melodically followed rules to express text |
| What is second practice | composers would break the rules in order to better express the text people would know everyone knew the rules handle got lots of grief Madrigal as example :Cruda Amarili |
| what are some Baroque Characteristics? | Faubourdon concept, Figured Bass/Realization, Basso Continuo |
| What is Figured Bass/Realization | Looking at a figured bass and playing music, being able to create your part from what you see on the page |
| Basso Continuo | two people always a string or keyboard with a bass instrument, most characteristic part of the baroque period |
| What happened with mean tone and equal temperament in this period? | the great shift to the equal temperament because the two temperaments would not work anymore |
| Chords vs Intervals | Start using Major, minor, dimisnished and augmented chords instead of just intervals |
| What are some of the ornamentations? | turns, grace notes, trills, etc.. |
| What is the tonality shift to foucus at? | Major and minor modes |
| What are Terraced dynamics? | Adding or dropping people or instruments to make it louder or softer |
| what is Libretto? | Text |
| What is Intermedio? | musical interludes played before and in between acts to buy time |
| What was the Florentine Camerata? | A group of people who discussed what would be worthy of turning into a production |
| Who were two composers part of the Florentine Camerata? | Girolam Mei and Giulio Caccini |
| What is Monody? | Basically what we now know as Homophonic, its an idea of a soloist with an accompanist |
| What does Le nuove musiche mean? | The New Music |
| What was arias in this period? | strophic songs |
| who worte le nuove musiche? | Meil and caccini |
| What was Arias also called? | Solo Madrigals |
| What are Arias from | Opera |
| Arias are... | Homophonic and strophic |
| Who are Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini? | Freinds of Caccini, they statred a company with a text writer (Rinuccin) and composer (Peri) |
| What was the First Opera? | Dafine |
| What is Recitative Style? | Spoken dialogue and music |
| What is Ritornello? | a recurring line that happens often comes from the concerto form |
| What is Claudio Monteverdi famous for? | writting Ritornello and only vocal works he was the first to show full potential of opera |
| What is Strophoic Variation? | One step beyond Strophic Arias, the main character is right in the center of all |
| Roman Operas would have whom sing the highest line? | Castrati, because the stigma that women were not allowed to perform on stage, so males would have an operation so that voices would not drop after puberty |
| Where was the first public opera house? | Venice opera house 1637 |
| What is a Diva? | A star |
| What is a impresario? | A producer of the opera |
| What is a Prima Donna? | The lead soprano or first lady |
| What is Concertato Style? | an accompany madrigal |
| What is Basso Ostinato? | Recurring bass pattern also known as the ground bass |
| What does cantata mean and who wrote them | to be sung and bach |
| What is an Oratorio | large scale composition, like an opera minus the costumes and scenery with a sacred theme |
| What did Henrich Schutz write? | Sul, was verfogst du mich, and Kleine geistliche Knonzerte which is a smalll sacred concerts, they are self contained scripture from the bible and putting it in music |
| Insturmental music became? | Just as important as vocal music, written for specific instrument, strings formalized and vocalized into pairs |
| What are the 4 catergories of music? | Preforming forces (or instrumentation, how it is catergories by the instrument) Venue, Nationality and type |
| What are the parts of a Fugue? | Episodes (when you don't hear the melody just counter subjects) Subject, Counter subject |
| How did bach edited his subject line? | Augmentation, diminution, retrograde, inversion, retrograde inversion |
| What is a Sonata | Something written for solo instrument, then it became accompanied which is monody |
| What is Opus? | the beginning of cataloging types of music by genre, opus means work |
| What is Jean Baptiste Lully famous for? | Creating the Overture part of the opera |
| What is Henry Purcell famous for | Using the ground bass and writing a melody over top of it and chaconne |
| What is Alessandro Scarlotti famous for? | Da Capo Aria, ABA theme like D.C. el fine |
| What is Sonata dacamera | Chamber music sometimes background music |
| What is sonata da Chiesa | Church music, it's part of the service |
| What is a Trio Sonata | 4 people playing a sonata, 2 violins and a basso continuio |
| who is famous for writing trio sonatas | Arcangelo Corelli |
| What is Concerto Grosso? | A feature piece for multiple soloist, alternate between the soloist and the orchestra,another way we get ritornello form. |
| who wrote 4 seasons? | Antonio Vivaldi |
| What is special about prelude and Fugue? | there are multiple subjects. |
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