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Cantata?
A choral work, usually on a sacred subject and frequently built on a chorale tune, combining aria, recitative, chorus, and instrumental accompaniment.
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Basso Continuo?
Continuous bass. A bass part performed by (1) a chordal instrument such as a keyboard instrument or a lute, and (2) a bass instrument such as a cello, viola da gamba, or bassoon that reinforces the bass line.
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concerto?
A work for one or more solo instruments.
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concerto grosso
A multi-movement work for instruments in which a solo group called the concertino and full ensemble called the repieno are pitted against each other.
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Chordophones?
all stringed instruments, including those that are plucked, struck, or bowed.
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Aerophones?
wind instruments of all kind.
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Idiophones?
solid instruments that are hit, struck together, shaken, scraped, rubbed, or have a hard extension (such as piece of metal attached to an instrument) that is plucked to produce their sounds.
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Membranophones?
drums that produce their sounds by the vibration of a membrane that is stretched across all or part of the instrument.
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largo
grave
lento
adagio
andante
moderato
- very slow largo (broad)
- grave (grave, solemn)
- slow lento
- adagio(leisurely;literally,@ease)
- moderate andante (at walking pace)
- moderato
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andante
moderato
allegretto
allegro
vivace
presto
prestissmo
- moderate andante (at walking pace)
- moderato
- fast allegretto
- allegro(faster than allegretto
- cheerful; literally)
- very fast vivace (vivacious)
- presto
- prestissmo (as fast as possible)
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counterpoint?
A musical texture consisting of two or more equal and independent melodic lines sounding simultaneously. see also ployphony
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Baroque Period ?-?
1600-1750
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Aria?
A composition for solo voice and instrumental accompaniment.
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fugue?
A composition that uses imitation polyphony and is organized around the returns of a theme or subject and a countermelody that often appears with it. Fugues can have more than one subject, but just one is more common.
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organum?
The earliest type of medieval polyphonic music.
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Motet?
A polyphonic choral work set to a sacred text.
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La Primavera (Spring) from Quattro Staggione
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- Genre: Solo concerto
- Tempo: Allegro (fast)
- Form: Ritornello
- Instruments: Concertino solo violin (joined occasionally by two more solo violins). Ripieno: string orchestra with continuo and archlute ( a lute with extra bass strings)
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The Little Fugue in G Minor
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- Genre: Organ Fugue
- Form: Fugue
- Texture: Polyphonic
- Instruments: Solo Organ
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Wachet auf (Sleepers Awake), Cantata no. 140
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Texture:?
Voices & Instruments?
- Genre: Tenor chorale from a church cantata
- Texture: Polyphonic
- Voices & Instruments: Tenor voices with first violins, and violas in unison (playing the same notes together) and continuo, harpsichord, organ, and bassoon.
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Recitative?
A form of "singing speech" in which the rhythm is dictated by natural inflection of the words.
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Ave Maria (Hail Mary)
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- Genre: Motet
- Texture: Polyphonic and Monophonic
- Voices: 4
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Viderunt omnes (All have seen)
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- Genre: Organum/plainchant
- Texture: Two part polyphonic, then monophonic chant.
- Voices: Two Melodies and then One, with each melody (or voice) sung by a small group of men.
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Thy Hand, Belinda and When I Am Laid in Earth
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- Date: 1689
- Genre: Recitative and aria from opera
- texture: Homophonic
- Form: Recitative free form
- Voices & Instruments: Soprano Voice, theorbo (lute-like plucked string instrument), first violins, second violins, viola, and bass violin.
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Ev'ry Valley from Messiah
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- Date: 1741
- Genre: Aria
- Texture: Homophonic
- Voices & Instruments: Solo tenor voice with two violins, viola, and continuo played by organ, harpsichord and cello.
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Texture?
The relationship between the melodic and harmonic aspects of a piece of music. The principal classifications are monophony, homophony, and polyphony.
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oratario?
An extended choral work made up of recitatives, arias, and choruses, without costuming stage action or scenery.
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rubato?
"Robbed" A term indicating that a performer may treat the tempo with a certain amount of freedom, shortening the duration of some beats and correspondingly lengthening others.
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Movements?
- 3 movements
- Fast>Slow>Fast
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Chorale?
A German Hymn, often used as a unifying theme for cantata.
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Sonata?
An instrumental work consisting of three or four contrasting movements.
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Aria?
A composition for solo voice and instrumental accompaniment.
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arioso?
A vocal style midway between recitative and aria. Its meter is less flexible than that of recitative, but its form is much simpler and more flexible than an aria.
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Suite?
A series of instrumental movements., each based on a particular dance rhythm.
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arpeggio?
A "broken" chord in which the tones are played one after another in rapid succession instead of simultaneously.
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strophic?
Designating a song in which all verses of text are sung to the same music.
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