Complete List of Terms and Definitions for Baroque music history

Terms Definitions
baroque 1600 1750
prima prattica first practice
bach "In dulci jubilo" (c1710)
sinfonia it word for overture
Hippolyte et arici tragic opera
string makers amali stradivari, guarmeri
Gaultier Tombeau de Mme. Gaultier (c1652)
virgil/aenid classic latin story of aenid
torelli famous composer of the concerto
Handel "V'adoro, pupille" from Guilio Cesare (1724)
masque english spells mask. this is entertainment at the court dancing poetry, solos, duets and trios
Rameau known as organist and harpsichordist and then a theorist with a book
b marcello a musician and an author
Purcell Dido and Aeneas (1689)
a) "Thy hand, Belinda"
b) "When I am laid in earth"
G.B. Sammartini Symphony No. 3 (c1740)
first movement: Allegro
farinelli most paid castrato in the 17th century
tyragedi lyrique same thing as opera = french
g silbermann instrument makers bach played a silbermann organs
le nuove musiche the new music. vocal ornamentation
the 4 suites are allamande courante sarabande gigue
Art embellished , very detailed & ornate ; Birth of Jesus - Mary in Red
fermata uses- cadenze, extend value, end of piece, phrases of chorale
passacaglia tends to be a repeated bass line. street music org that was reptative. starts with an upbeat or anacrusis continuous veriations.
da capo aria a part, b part, then beginning
vivaldi excelled in opera a prolific master of the italian baroque concerto
ground bass same bass line over and over again
h. purcell great english compoers. took minor key decending tetrachord, makes it more dramatic by descending chromatically and adds a cadence to loop back to teh top
french opera had to sound like lully or you wouldn't be successful
concertato style gabrielli the two choirsin a loft guy, started this and its cont in the baraoque
bel canto used in teh 17th century to secribe the bel canto style of singing.
neoplitan chord comes from naples got the name from being used in neapolitan opera flat II if you don't remember
artusi controversy artusi was a theorist of the time, looked at a piecec written by monteverdi and said no you can't break the rules like that. monteverdi says i know the rules so i can break the rules.
a corelli studied at san patronio moved to rome italy and became a great performer italian who didn't write vocal music. kind of odd.
real/ tonal answer real is where teh intervals are the same btw the answer and teh subject. tonal answer is wheer you will change an interval to keep it in teh harmonic structure
new tonal system this was when major and minor patterns finally gelled
barque organ becomes a big deal in the 17th century after the protestant reformation lutheran curches the organ becomes a big deal
baroque ornamentation- longer ornaments. breaking down big notes into smaller notes terms- divisions, diminutions, break big notes into little notes.
baroque trio sonata how many layers does it take to perform a baroque trio sonata correctly? Answer 4 harpsichord adn bass take the same linw
"guerre do bouffons" war of the buffoons a paper war over types of music and what is best
l'art de toucher le clavecin a book by couperin "we the french don't play as we write" i you have conjunct eitghth notes. da dat dat at da dat