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What is the dates of the Baroque Period?
1600-1750
what does the term Baroque mean?
Bizarre and elaborate
What is the Age of Absolutism?
absolute power of rulers
Difference between opera and oratorio.
opera had costumes, set, scenary, etc-acted out
Architecture during the Baroque period
Two giants of the Baroque period
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
What does unity of mood mean?
Expresses one mood throughout piece
What was the texture during the Baroque period?
Late Baroque mostly polyphonic
How many players were in a Baroque Orchestra?
10-30 players
How was church music during this period?
Church music was very elaborate
What was the fugue?
Cornerstone of Baroque music
Name musical characteristics of opera
What were the two primary types of solo songs?
Recitative and Aria
What music did Claudio Monteverdi compose?
both sacred music and secular music
How many children did Johann Sebastian Bach have?
20
true or false: Lutheran church service was social event of the week
TRUE
What was cantata
Multi-movement church work for chorus, soloists, organ and small orchestra
Where was George Frederic Handel born?
Germany
Describe Dacapo aria
ABA, from the head, repeat A with ornaments
What is visual art?
what dates were considered middle of the Baroque Period?
1640-1680
What were the dynamics like during the Baroque Period?
Volumes are constant with abrupt changes – terraced dynamics
What instruments were used during the Baroque Period orchestras?
Strings, woodwinds, brass, & percussion
what form was Baroque music played in?
Instrumental music frequently made up of movements
True or False: Unity of mood was not within individual movements
FALSE