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Air
English or French song fo solo voice with accomp
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Ouverture
French for "opening" introduces an opera
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Notes inegales
Way of performing French music in which passages notate i sort, even durations are performed by alternating longer notes on the beat with shorter offbeats to produce a lilting rhythm
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Masque
English entertainment involving poetry, music, dance, costumes, choruses, and elaborate sets, akin to the French court ballet
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Semi opera/ Henry Purcell
Dramatic opera with music excerpts/ "One hit" opera composer in England
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Solo sonata/ trio sonata/ Arcangelo Corelli/ da chiesa/ da camera
Solo violin with continuo/ two treble instruments and basso continuo/ First important composer to employ the use of tonality in compositions/ for church/ for chamber
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Concerto grosso/ ripieno/ concertino
Small ensemble against large/all or full/ small ensemble
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Ritornello/ Ritornello Procedure
Little return of an insturmental passage/ Usually played at the beginning, interludes, and at the end; sometimes played throughout, in varied form
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Antonio Vivaldi/Ospedale Della Perta
Best known Italian composer of the early 18; virtuoso violinist, master teacher, and popular composer of opera, cantatas, sacred music; especially known for his concertos/ one of four "hospitals" in Venice, homes for orphaned, illegitimte, or poor boys and girls, run like strict boarding schools
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George Frederic Handel/ Opera Seria
Famous composer of Opera and Oratorio, consummate master of contrast/ Genre of Italian opera on a serious subject but normally with a happy ending, usually withou comic characters or scenes
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Da cappo aria
and aria sung and then repeated
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English Oratorio
Use of chorus, not intended for church, borrowed and reworked from himself
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