Baroque Terms
This Baroque term for human emotions or states of the soul.
What are the affections?
The quality of being Periodic, especially when this is emphasized through frequent resting points and articulations between Phrases and Periods.
What is Periodicity?
This female French Composer originated the concept of the child prodigy.
Who is Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre?
1. Enlightened thinker best known for writing "The Social Contract" and "Emile"
2. Emphasized the education of the whole person for citizenship
3. Rejected excessive rationalism and stressed emotions, thus anticipating the romantic movement
Who was Jean-Jaques Rousseau?
This has a passage or section in an Opera, Oratorio, Cantata, or other vocal work in Recitative Style.
What is a Recitative?
This term is used as a mean for altering the affections/emotions.
What is Ornamentation?
Broken-Chord accompaniment common in the second half of the 18th-century and named after Domenico Alberti, who used Figuration frequently.
What is an Alberti Bass?
This composer was a leading composer of the sacred concerto's development into a sophisticated multi-movement construction. He was also an organist and Bach adored him.
Who is Dietrich Buxtehude?
This composer achieved a winning synthesis of French, Italian, and German operatic styles. He aspired to write music of "a beautiful simplicity," which he achieved especially in Orfeo ed Euridice. He supervised the production of his operas, enhancing the drama with more naturalistic lighting, staging, and acting.
Who was Gluck?
In the late 16th & 17th centuries, any section of an Italian Strophic poem for a solo singer. It's also Lyrical monologue in an Opera or other vocal work such as Cantata and Oratorio.
What is an Aria?
The system, common since the late century, by which a piece of music is organized by which a piece of music is organized around a Tonic Note, Chord, and Key, to which all the other notes and keys in the piece are subordinate.
What is Tonality?
This original name for the piano (soft/loud).
What is Pianoforte?
This composer was an English composer. Although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is considered to be one of the greatest English composers; no later native-born English composer approached his fame until Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Benjamin Britten in the 20th century.
Who is Henry Purcell?
This composer was the director of Mannheim Orchestra credited with standardizing the classical orchestra.
Who was Johann Stamitz?
Genre of dramatic music that originated in the 17th-century combining narrative, dialogue, and commentary through Arias, Recitatives, Ensembles, Choruses, and instrumental music, like an unstaged opera/ Usually on a religious or biblical subject.
What is an Oratorio?
Aria Form with 2 sections. The first section is repeated after the second section's close, which carries the instruction da capo creating an ABA Form.
What is a Da Capo Aria>
This book was the first book published in North America by the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The book went through more than 50 editions and stayed in print for 125 years.
What is the Bay Psalm Book?
This late-Baroque French composer also established the premises of tonal harmony in his theoretical treatises (Treatise on Harmony, 1722). He is also known for his operas and keyboard music. Castor et Pollux [tragedie lyrique] 1737
Who is Jean-Philippe Rameau?
This composer was one of the earliest composers of American choral music and a popular hymn writer.
Who is William Billings?
(1) A piece to be played on one or more instruments. (2) BAROQUE instrumental piece with contrasting sections or MOVEMENTS, often with IMITATIVE COUNTERPOINT. (3) GENRE in several movements for one or two solo instruments.
What is a Sonata?
This Light French Opera, which used spoken dialogue instead of Recitatives. Also, in the 19th century France, opera with spoken dialogue, whether comic or tragic.
What is a Comic Opera?
This Classical term has a short-long rhythmic pattern, with the short note occurring on a strong pulse.
What is a Lombardic Rhythm/"Scotch Snap"?
This composer was a famous German organist and composer of opera seria, oratorio, and other instrumental music. He held the position of "Music Director at the Court of Hanover" prior to moving to London and becoming a naturalized English citizen. His most famous composition is the oratorio Messiah.
Who is Georg Friedrich Handel?
Short life, Child prodigy, Spectacular virtuoso (violin, piano), Well-traveled
Freelance artist, dies poor
Who is W.A. Mozart?
Type of Overture used in Tragedie En Musique and other Genres that opesn with a slow, homophonic, and majestic section, followed by a faster section that begins with Imitation.
What is a French Overture?