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Appreciation and History of Music Vocabulary

Vocabulary Chapter 37 - Music in London: Henry Purcell Word Definition 1. Westminster Abbey 1. Old Benedictine monastery; provided a venue for ceremonies of state, all with appropriate musical pomp. 2. Masque 2. An elaborate courtly entertainment using music, dance, and drama to portray an allegorical story that shed a favorable light on the royal family. 3. Semi-opera 3. A spoken play where the most exotic, amourous, or supernatural moments were sung or danced. 4. Ground bass 4. What english called basso ostinato; repetitive bass 5. 0de 5. Multi movement composition usually lasting about 20 minutes containing an instrumental introduction, choruses, duets, and solo arias. 6. Countertenor 6. High, falsetto alto part is performed by this person. 7. Flat trumpet 7. A slide trumpet like the early trombone, but the sliding tube extended backward over the player's left shoulder. Chapter 38 - Music in London: George Frideric Handel Word Definition 8. Dance suite 8. Collection of dances all in a single key for one instrument or another, either a solo instrument or a full orchestra 9. French horn 9. Instrument acquainted with the French court of King Louis XIV. 10. Horn fifths 10. Instruments slide back and forth through sixths, fifths, and thirds, sometimes ornamenting along the way. 11.Royal Academy of Music 11.Handel's company opera;publicly-held stock company whose main investor was the kind for the production of Italian opera, specifically opera seria. 12.0pera seria 12. Literally, serious opera; fully sung Italian opera of the most elaborate & expensive sort. 13. Senesino 13.Francesco Bernardi, the most famous castrai of Handel's day. 14. Contralto 14. A low alto; male voice that sings alto parts of a piece. 15.0ratorio 15. Large scale, multi movement composition setting a sacred text. 16. Pastoral aria 16. Slow aria with several distinctive characteristics: parallel thirds that mainly glide in a stepwise motion. Chapter 39 - Johann Sebastian Bach: Instrumental Music Word Definition 17.BWV (Bach Werke Verzeichnis) 17. Bach Work List; 18.Orgelbuchlein 18. Collection of 46 pieces written mostly between 1708 1713; 6 by 7 inches. 19. Chorale prelude 19. Ornamental setting of a pre-exisiting chorale tune intended to be played on the organ before singing of the chorale by the full congregation. 20.Rank 20. Group of similar sounding pipes. 21.Stop 21. How ranks of pipes are activated, by pulling out small wooden knobs. 22.Pedal point 22. Sustained or continually repeated pitch usually placed in the bass and sounding while the harmonies around it change. 23. Kapellmeister 23.Chief musician. 24. Two and Three Part Inventions 24. Two sets of contrapuntal pieces along the lines of simple fugues. 25. The Well-Tempered Clavier 25. Collection of preludes and fugues by Bach in two books, one composed in C0then (1720-1722) and the other in Leipzig (late 1730s). 26. Equal temperament 26. Division of the octave into twelve equal half steps. 27.Picardy third 27. A piece starts in minor and ends in a major triad. 28.Subject 28. Theme in the beginning of a fugue. 29.Exposition 29. Each voice presents the theme of