Chapter 6- The Baroque Era

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Bradenburg Concertos

Bach's most famous orchestral composition

Monody

Music that was subservient to the text

Antonio Corelli

The Italian composer who first bought violin music to international prominence

Concertos

The musical genre that clearly illustrated the concept of contrast. A soloist would be contrasted against the orchestra

Recitative

The style of singing that developed from monody

Oratorio

A bible story set to music and sung in English, th ey were less expensive to make and more popular because they were cheaper

Johann Bach

A family man, whom had no interest in traveling, being famous, or creating operas. He did create all other musical genres. His final position was at St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig, Germany. The death of this composer marked the end of the Baroque Era

Dance Suites

A series of dances for instrumental performances

Prelude

A strict contrapuntal composition

Recitatives

Accompanied by basso continuo and are simple, fast, and speechlike

Fugue

Also known as subject; an improvisation type of organ work which is often paired with a prelude

Opera

Early Baroque witnessed the development of this new musical genre

Aria

Explores the emotions created by the story of an opera

Messiah

Handel's most popular work and one of the most frequency performed compositions of today

Trio Sonata

Has 2 instrument and a basso continuo

Solo Sonata

Has one instrument and a basso continuo

Concerto Grosso

Multiple soloists

Francesca Caccini

One of the earlier composers of monody

Solo concerto

One soloist

Chorale

Protestant hymn

Musical Borrowings

Reworking existing compositions into new pieces of music known as

Basso Continuo

The bass line in Baroque music; it was 2 instruments back during the Baroque period but today it would just be the piano

1600-1700

The early Baroque period

Sonata and Concerto

The favorite genres of violin music in the last part of the 17th century

Italian

The favorite type of opera

Ritornello

The first and third movements of a Baroque concerto are in this form

Claudio Monteverdi

The first great opera composer of the Baroque

Orfeo

The first great opera in history of Western music

1700-1750

The late Baroque period

Recitative and Aria

The main musical forms in Baroque opera seria

Triple meter

The minuet, a dance of moderate tempo, is in _____

The Four Seasons

The most famous Vivaldi concerto today

Jean Baptiste Lully

The most important composer of French opera, and music director for Louis XIV

Henry Purcell

The most talented English composer of the late 17th century

Louis XIV

The palace of Versailles was built by this person in the mid 1600's who was a powerful French monarch whom ruled from 1643 to 1715

Concerto, Sonata, Dance Suite

The primary instrumental genre of the Baroque

Opera, Cantata, Oratorio, Chorale

The primary vocal genres of the Early Baroque

Handel

This composer created many operas and oratorio. He loved to travel. He also spent most of his career in London

Antonio Vivaldi

the master of the concerto in the late Baroque


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