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Baroque EraBaroque Definition - correct answer a jeweler's term for large pearls of irregular shape. Baroque Period - correct answer Time period: "Early" Baroque c. 1600 - 170 Baroque Rhythm - correct answer Single or similar rhythm often heard throughout piece or major segment of piece B...

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Baroque Era
Baroque Definition - correct answer a jeweler's term for large pearls of irregular shape.
Baroque Period - correct answer Time period: 1600-1750 "Early" Baroque c. 1600 - 170
Baroque Rhythm - correct answer Single or similar rhythm often heard throughout piece or major segment of piece
Baroque Meter - correct answer Emphasized
•strong & weak beats played in clear & concise manner
-Systematized
•bar lines regularly used; strong beat at bar lines
Baroque Texture - correct answer Both Homophony & Polyphony Becomes More & More Polyphonic
Basso Continuo - correct answer Set of chords continuously underlying melody • Instruments playing the
continuo
Ground bass/ Basso ostinato - correct answer •Music constructed from the bottom up •Bass instruments play single short melody many times •Generates same set of repeated harmonies above it •Played by continuo instruments
Baroque Harmony - correct answer -Harmony becomes more functional
-Chords become standardized - inter-relationships "logical"
-One chord following another in predictable, purposeful ways in relationship to the tonic (key)
baroque Tonality - correct answer -Baroque marks the solidification of major/minor system MOTET DEFINITION - correct answer •A genre •From French word mot - meaning "word"
MOTET CHARACTERISTICS - correct answer •Sacred
•Focus on voices
-Can contain instrumental parts
•Both music (melody & harmony) and words can change
EARLY BAROQUE OPERA DEFINITION - correct answer Drama presented to music
EARLY BAROQUE OPERA RECITATIVE - correct answer • Declaiming words musically in a heightened theatrical manner
• Instrumental accompaniment kept to minimum
• Used to relate information, for plot action, dialogue
EARLY BAROQUE OPERA ARIA - correct answer • More melodic, rhythm is more consistent, meter clearer
• Entire orchestra accompanies
• Used to show emotion, feelings, what's going on in mind of singer
GIOVANNI GABRIELI - correct answer c. 1555 - 1612
Organist at St. Mark's Basilica
Catholic cathedral in Venice, Italy
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI - correct answer • 1567-1643
• Music "superstar" from 1607 till death
• Spans genres - "last great madrigalist" - "first great opera composer"
• Court of Mantua (1589-1612)
• St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice (1612-1643)
• Operas:

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