Baroque music history
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 |