Music History II

English or French song fo solo voice with accomp

French for "opening" introduces an opera

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

English entertainment involving poetry, music, dance, costumes, choruses, and elaborate sets, akin to the French court ballet

Dramatic opera with music excerpts/ "One hit" opera composer in England

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

Small ensemble against large/all or full/ small ensemble

Little return of an insturmental passage/ Usually played at the beginning, interludes, and at the end; sometimes played throughout, in varied form

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

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

A castratto

and aria sung and then repeated

Use of chorus, not intended for church, borrowed and reworked from himself