Music Chapters 7 and 8

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Terms needed to know for chapters 7 and 8

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1	The time bridging the Renaissance and Baroque eras exhibits the search for _____ by Madrigal...	Expression
2	A composer known for a wild sense of madrigal composition was ________	Carlo Gesualdo
3	The reaction against this type of extreme compositional style in Florence led to _____, one...	Opera
4	______ ______ would alternate between 2 or more whole choirs. This sound led the way for the...	Giovanni Gabriel
5	The Baroque period extended roughly from _____ to ______.	1600-1750
6	Outside of the musical world, this era is AKA __________________________ and __________________________	the Age of Absolutism, The Age of Science.
7	This was the time of belief in the divine rights of kings- the idea that the right of kings...	The Age of Absolutism
8	What was art during the Age Absolutism designed to do?	Impress and celebrate the King.
9	The ______ vocal form is a single section in a song restricted to one specific mood.	arias
10	During this period, discoveries and inventions stimulated both technology and philosophy. It...	The Age of Science
11	What were the three main institutions where composers could make a living during the Baroque...	The Church, Court, and the Opera House
12	The most notable composer and performer of music for the Church was ______________	Johann Sebastian Bach
13	_______ musicians were more aware of musical developments than church musicians since hey were...	Court
14	The main musical vehicle of the Baroque absolutism was _______	The Opera House
15	_______music is the earliest form of music one regularly hears recreated at concerts and on...	Baroque
16	What was the rhythm and meter like in Baroque music?	Full of energy and contains clearly emphasized beat patterns. Bar lines were used for the first...
17	What were the melodies like in Baroque Music?	Composers pushed their complex melodies to the limits.
18	The art of ________ evolved rapidly during the Baroque period.	Harmony
19	Baroque musicians developed the _____________ system that was still use today.	Major/Minor
20	The ____ _______ is the bass part in Baroque music played by a keyboard that plays the bass...	Bass continuo
21	___ ____ is music constructed from the bottom up. Bass instruments play a single short figure...	Ground Bass
22	Basso ostinato is another word for ______ ______.	Ground Bass
23	Musical forms are ________ and more _______ in the Baroque period than in most other historical...	Clearer, regular
24	________ and _______ are 2 factors that contributed to clearer and more regular musical forms...	Necessity and Science
25	Composers relied on and tried true musical formulas that couple be applied quickly and sufficiently...	Necessity
26	When composers mapped the organization of a piece of music and then filled it in systematically...	Scientific
27	Music was decorated by musicians who sang the same songs night after night by adding __________.	Ornamentation
28	The ______ _______ was different from other periods in the Baroque b/c several different instruments...	Tone Color
29	What kind of dynamics were used in the Baroque period?	abrupt and contrasting dynamics.
30	_______ _______ dominated many composer's outpourings during the Baroque period.	Vocal Music
31	This was the principle genre of vocal music that enabled singers to project emotion in a very...	Opera
32	Opera _____ was the main category of Italian Baroque opera. The words were designed to stir...	Seria ("serious")
33	________ is a term that means "to recite" and was a technique used to help deliver important...	Recitative
34	_______ Recitative is "dry" in that it is accompanied only by continuo.	Secco
35	________ recitative is accompanied by orchestra and is exciting and emotion-filled.	Accompanied
36	The ____ is a solo piece for a singer that has more coherence and musical elaboration that...	Aria
37	The standard form for Baroque is aria _ _ _.	ABA
38	_______ were young boys who were castrated in order to keep their high voices.	Castratos
39	The most operatic of Baroque sacred music was ________. A concertized opera based on a religious...	Oratorio
40	Jaquet de la Guerra, Antonia Bemba, Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini were women from the...	KNOW THESE
41	A ______ is a general term for a piece of moderate length for voice and instruments. Uses traditional...	Cantata
42	A ______ chorale occurs in longer cantata movements in which the individual phrases of a chorale...	gapped
43	The _____ chorale was significant in that it incorporated a hymn tune.	Organ
44	What 3 main sources can instrumental music of the Baroque period be traced back to?	Dance, Virtuosity, and vocal music
45	Who composed virtuoisic organ pieces containing the elements of instrumental music?	Girolamo Frescobaldi
46	A small group of soloists is called a _______ ______	concierto grosso
47	A ______ has just one soloist playing	Concierto
48	A ________ is a self-contained section of music that is a part of a larger work.	Movement
49	This form focuses on the contrast b/w 2 musical ideas or groups of ideas- 1 belonging to the...	Ritornello. This means "return" and explains the function of returning music to provide stability....
50	An uninterrupted repetition of 1 clearly defined melodic units with changes that provoke the...	Baroque variation form
51	Systemized imitative polyphony in which a polyphonic composition for a fixed # of instrumental...	Fugue
52	A fugue _______ appears again and again in each of the instrumental or vocal lines and may...	subject
53	A fugue ______ is when all the voices present the subject in an orderly standardized way.	explosion
54	Intervals of a fugue that are spaced out passages of other parts of the song that bring contrast...	Episodes
55	A collection of miscellaneous dances together in a genre are called a _______	Suite
56	The Baroque dance form is ______ (aa bb)	Binary
57	Minuet =	A
58	Trio =	B
59	The French overture was in what form?	ABA
60	The French word for song aria, which describes the melody in dance suites.	Air