Music Appreciation Chapters 7-13

Lasted from the 1600's-1750's.

The Late Baroque Period

Italy in the 1600's

• 1.) The Church
• 2.) The Court
• 3.) The Opera House

Bass line consisting of steady equal note values like eights or quarters.

Addition of fast notes and vocal notes to a melody making it more florid (sanguine) and expressive.

Polyphonic

Concerto and Concerto Grosso.

A large composition for orchestra and solo instruments.

The main early Baroque type of Concerto for a group of solo instruments and a small orchestra.

• 1.) Bright Extroverted piece in a fast tempo.
• 2.) Quieter. slower and more emotional.
• 3.) Fast Again.

A self contained section of a larger piece (such as a symphony or a concerto grosso).

Form in which a single melodic unit is repeated with harmonic, rhythmic dynamic or timbrel changes.

Persistent or obstinate bass.

The orchestral material at the begging of a concerto grosso, which always returns later on in the piece.

Antonio Vivaldi The "Red Priest"? (1678-1741), he was a Venetian music teacher at the Semenario Musicale dell'Ospendale, Della Pieta, he is also famous for his 4 Seasons concerto.

Wrote Brandenburg Concerto Number 5, combining six different instruments that have never been combined before, he also had 20 children, was German, and was blind in the last three years of his life.

A composition written systematically in imitative polyphony usually with a single main theme, the fugue subject.

Where all voices present the subject in an orderly standardized way.

Where all voices present the subject in an orderly standardized way.

A fugue begins with an ________.

In a fugue, appearances of the entire fugue subject after the opening exposition.

In a fugue a passage that does not contain any complete appearances of the fugue subject.

A piece consisting of a series of dances.

A baroque dance in a lively compound meter.

A musical form having two different sections.

A baroque type of overture to an opera, oratorio, or suite.

• 1.) C ountersubject: In a fugue, a subsidary melodic line that appears regularly in counterpoint with the subject.
• 2.) S tretto: In a fugue, overlapping entrances of the fugue subject in several voices simultaneously.
• 3.) A ugmentation: In fugue when all note lengths are multiplied or divided (usually by 2).
• 4.) I nversion: In fugue, when all intervals in the subject are reversed.

The principle genre of secular vocal music of the Baroque Era

An elaborately decorated style of singing with many notes for each syllable of text.

A term for the serious heroic Opera of the Baroque period in Italy.

"Recite" A half singing half reciting style of presenting words in opera.

Recitative with Continuo (Basso Continuo: chello + Harpsichord or organ) accompaniment.

Recitative accompanied by the Orchestra

A vocal number for solo singers and orchestra generally in an opera, cantata (A composition for several movements of solo voice(s),and instruments), or oratorio.

The standard form for the baroque Italian opera Aria.

Long semi dramatic piece; an opera on a religious subject.

General name for a piece of moderate length for voices and instruments.

A Cantata with religious words.

German for hymn. It is a Lutheran hymn used for four part harmonization (to provide each note of melody with a chord).

A Choral melody delivered in spurts, while other music continues.

(Organ Chorale) An important genre of keyboard music at the time, it is an organ composition with a choral tune.

• 1. R ythm
• 2. D ynamics
• 3. T one Color
• 4. M elody : Tunes
• 5. T exture
• 6. C lassical Counterpoint

• Opening Movement
• tempo: moderato
• form: sonata form

• Slow Movement
• tempo: slow very slow
• form : sonata, variation other

• Minuet (with Trio)
• tempo: moderate
• form : minuet form

• Closing Movement
• tempo: fast very fast
• form : sonata, form or rondo form

• I: A: I I: B A':I,

• 1. Exposition
• 2. Development
• 3. Recapitulation

Expanding themes into larger sections of music.

"step by step review"? (sonata)

• Opening movement
• tempo: fast
• form: sonata form
• Slow movement
• tempo: slow
• form: variations
• Minuet with Trio
• tempo: moderate
• form: minuet form
• Closing movement
• tempo: fast
• form: rondo

II:A:II II:BII A

A B A C A Coda