French opera genre of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
What is Tragedie en Musique?
100
Movement of a sonata, symphony, or string quartet that is most often in sonata form.
What is the first movement?
100
The term for the language that one speaks in day to day life, as opposed to Latin.
What is the vernacular?
100
This ends when all voices have stated the subject or answer once.
What is the exposition?
100
Protestant movement of the sixteenth century.
What is the Reformation?
200
A vocal performance that occurs within the world/plot of an opera.
What is stage song?
200
The three main parts of a sonata form structure.
What are the exposition, development, and recapitulation?
200
The school of madrigal composition in the late 16th century with which Monteverdi contrasts his new style.
What is the prima prattica?
200
While the second voice enters with the answer, the first voice plays this.
What is the counter subject?
200
Sorceress character in Lully's opera of the same name.
Who is Armide?
300
A type of declamatory singing that is used to present dialogue and to advance the plot of an opera.
What is recitative?
300
If a sonata is in A major and featured a modulating transition, the transition will end on this chord.
What is a B major chord?
300
Orfeo saves her from Hades in the Peri opera of the same name.
Who is Euridice?
300
An answer that modifies a few of the intervals of the subject melody.
What is a tonal answer?
300
A strophic hymn for congregational singing in the Lutheran church.
What is the chorale?
400
Has the form ABA' and includes virtuosic display in the repeat of the A section.
What is a da capo aria?
400
A presentation, towards the end of the development, of the first theme (or the first few measures of the first theme) in a key other than the tonic.
What is a false recapitulation?
400
An expanded unit in opera created through the integration of multiple unit and the disruption of formal boundaries between recitative, aria, and instrumental music.
What is a scene complex?
400
When a voice enters with the subject before another voice has concluded playing the subject.
What is stretto?
400
Movement in German visual art, literature, and music that encapsulated anti-enlightenment ideals and emphasised extreme passions and terror.
What is Sturm und Drang?
500
The season before Lent that involves debaucherous revelry and that gave rise to opera.
What is carnival?
500
The rule that all important musical material presented outside of the tonic in the exposition must be repeated, but in the tonic, in the recapitulation - resolving the dual-key tension of the sonata.
What is the sonata principle?
500
A piece that exemplifies the music reforms of the counter-reformation.
What is Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass?
500
The innovation that allowed Bach to write the Well Tempered Clavier
What is (more or less equal) temperament?
500
Serenades, shepherds, and magic spells.
What are excuses for song or more elaborate music in early opera and the comedie-ballet?