Word
Definition
Baroque
1600-1750s Time in history where a king had absolute power by reason of divine right A war of words over what was more important: music or text. Second practice; text-driven Musical moods could and should be used to influence the emotions or affections of listeners "To sing alone"; solo madrigals, arias, and recitatives Bass line that provided a "continuous bass" Large lute-like instrument with a full octave of additional bass strings descending Numerical shorthand placed with the bass line that tells player which unwritten notes to fill in above the written bass line
Age of Absolutism
Artusi-Monteverdi Controversy
Seconda practica
: Doctrine of Affections
: Monody
Basso continuo
. Therobo
Figured bass
A dramatic work or play set to music; ex. Text that conveys story of an opera A group that discussed the literature, science, and arts of the day Vocal expression somewhere between song and speech The tale of Orpheus, the son of Apollo The New Music by Giulio Caccini; anthology of solo madrigals and solo strophic songs Instrumental piece for keyboard or other instruments; requires great dexterity Musically heightened speech Recitative when accompanied only by basso continuo Manner of singing halfway between recitative and a full- blown aria More florid, expansive and melodious than a recitative An aria in which the same melodic and harmonic plan appears with slight variation
Opera
: Libretto
Florentine Camerata
Stile Rappresentativo
Orpheus Legend
Le Nuove Musiche
Toccata
Recitative
Simple recitative
A uniquely structured building that prompted the
Arioso style
creation of cori spezzati; building where Evangelist
Aria
Mark's remains are allegedly buried
Strophic Variation Aria
"Broken choirs"; compositions created for up to four
choirs performed in different areas of the Basilica of St.
Basilica of St. Mark
Mark
Cori spezzati
Italian for concerted style; a term broadly used to
identify Baroque music marked by grand scale and
Stile concertato
strong contrast, either between voices and instruments, between separate instrumental ensembles, between
Concerted motet
Concerted madrigal
separate choral groups, or even between soloist and
choir
Stile concitato
A motet in concertato style with strong contrasts in
Cantata
textures and timbres involving voices and instruments
Chamber cantata
A madrigal in concertato style with strong contrasts in
Basso ostinato
textures and timbres involving voices and instruments
An agitated style particularly suited to warlike music;
Ciaccona (Chaconne)
Claudio Monteverdi used this term for a new style of
Passacaglia
music he created that was more direct and insistent
than previous martial music
Lament bass
The primary genre of vocal chamber music in the
Kapellmeister
Thirty Years' War
which was "sounded" on an instrument; it consisted of
several movements which included one or more arias
Counter-Reformation
and recitatives
Jesuits
A cantata performed before a select audience in a
Cappella Pontificia Sistina
private residence; intimate vocal chamber music
A bass line that insistently repeats note for note
Stile antico
Tenebrae Service
Originally a separate and distinct bass melody; during the seventeenth century the term started meaning any
Falsobordone
Colossal Baroque
repeating bass pattern of short