Purcell
-Early Baroque
-Greatest English Composer of Baroque Period
-Worked for Charles II
-Organist
-Theater Music
-“Dido and Aeneas”
Corelli
-Early Baroque
-Known for Instrumentals
-Writes Concierto grosso
-Writes Solo and Trio Sonatas
-Wrote Church and Chamber Sonatas
Monteverdi
-Early Baroque
-Last great Madrigalist and First great opera composer
-“too Radical”
-Choir Master- San Marco
-“Coronation of Poppea”
“Orfeo”
Gabrieli
-Early Baroque
-“O Magnum Mysterium”-Motet
-Alleluias
-First guy to specify Orchestration
-first composer to utilize dynamics
-Antiphonal
Frescobaldi
-Early Baroque
-Tocatas-free formed
-Canzonas-more rigorously organized
-styled dances
Vivaldi
-Late Baroque
-Venetian
-Wrote a lot of violin conciertos
-Violinist at San Marco
-Wrote “Four Seasons”-heavy in word painting
-“violin Concierto in G”
J.S. Bach
-Late Baroque
-Vivaldi was big influence
-Wrote Fugues, cantatas,conciertos
-“Brandenburg Concierto”-concierto grosso
-Chorale Preludes
-One of the first great superstars
Handel
-Late Baroque
-Not a lot of training as a child
-Liked and wrote some operas
-Worked for King George II of England
-Wrote “Water Music”
-“Messiah”- Oritorio
Other Late Baroque Composers
-Telemann
-A. Marcello
-B. Marcello
-Albioni
C.P.E. Bach
-Classical
-Son of J.S.
Gluck
-Classical
Mozart
-Classical
-5 good years then fell out of favor
-Worked for Archbishop of Saltzburg
-Moved to Vienna
-Wrote Symphonies and Operas
Haydn
-Classical
-Established Symphony and String Quartet
-Worked in operahouse built for him by Estercize? family in Vienna
String Quartet
-Multi Movement Instrumental made up of 2 violins,a viola,and a cello
Sonata
-Multimovement Instrumental for 1 or 2 Instruments
Symphony
A multimovement instrumental for a symphony orchestra in the form of a sonata
First Movement-Fast
2nd-Slow
3rd- Minuet Trio
4th-Faster than First
Concierto
Multimovement Instrumental work for large compositions for orchestra and solo instruments
Concierto Grosso
Multimovemnt Instrumental for a group of solo intruments and a small orchestra
Cantata
-Multimovemnt Vocal
-Non Staged
-Continuous Text-either lyrical or dramatic
-Smaller in scale than oritorio and opera
-contains recitatives and arias
Opera
-Multimovement Vocal
-Staged
-Drama presented in music, with singing instead of speaking
-Contains recitatives and arias
Oritorio
-Multimovement Vocal
-Staged
-Not meant to be done in church
-Contains recitatives and arias
Chorale Predlude
-Single Movement Instrumental
-Organ Music before Chorale
Chorale
Single Movement Vocal that are hyms of the Lutheran Church
Early Baroque
-Rythm and meter are more definite, regular, and insistent
-Barlines used for first time
-Texture-
Basso Continuo and Ground Bass
-Functional Harmony-Major/Minor system, each cord has a special function, stronger sense of tonality
Late Baroque
More energy into the music, dynamics had rarely used loud or soft indications in their scores, and remained at the same level through a selection or composition. Tone Color, you have trumpets and drums, which have never heard before. The melody is complex, with polyphonic writing
Classical
the rhythm is highly flexible, tempo and meter remain constant. rhythms of the various themes tend to differ in both obvious and sublte ways. Dynamics have variety and flexbility in it, with crescndeo and dimnuendo being introduced. Tone Color more variety, piano is getting use finally. While Homphonic writing is also here, instead of polophonic from the baroque era
Madrigal
-Countries given language
-Love story
-fast tempo
-word painting
-intrumental accompaniment
Music in Venice
-alternated 2 or 3 or more whole choirs
-Homophony crowded out polyphony
-Someimes Instruments
-SAN MARCO
Basso Continuo
Creating an accompaniment from a composed bass part by playing bass notes and improvising harmony
Ground Bass or Basso Obstinato
Short Baseline epeated constantly through piece usually 4-8 measures long
Recitative
Technique of declaiming words musically in a heightened theatrical manner

Carries from one aria to another

Aria
Deals with One idea or emotion- much more elaboration and coherence than a passage or recitative
Dance Suites
Groups of dance-In two part form (binary)
Fugue
made famous by Bach, one movememnt instrumental composititon written systematically in imitative polyphony, usually with one main theme, the fugue subject
Variations
Sectional Pieces in which each section repeats certain musical elements while others change aroudn them
Passacaglia
A set of variations on a short theme in a bass slow triple meter with slow harmonic rythm
Chromaticism
A musical style employing all or many of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale most of the time
Sequence
Repitition in a single voice part of a short musical phrase at another pitch level
Melismatic
Many pitches at one syllable
Virtuosity
Improvised
3 jobs in music
church, court, operahouse

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CONDUCT COMPOSE AND PERFORM

Ritornello
Alternating sections of solo or ensemble playing
Baroque Variation
Successive, uninterrupted, repetition of a defined melodic movement in continuous variatio. tends to occur above stable bass patterns
Opera Seria
Designed to convey powerful emotions. Solo singing by sopranos and mezzo sopran. Tenors and bass play subordinate roles with few duets and choruses
Libretto
Opera Text
Movement
A self contained section of a larger peice such as a symphony or concierto grosso
Cadence
Formula that happens at end of a phrase or work
Cadenza
An improvisatory solo passage, largest cadenze is at the end of a first movement, An elaboration by a soloist of a cadence near the end of movements. Soloist without accompaniment preceeds with virtuostic style
Opera Buffa
Comedic Opera with lower class figures-First was Mozart
Concert Halls
First in Oxford,England
List of Classical Forms
Sonata
Minuet Trio
ABA Song Form
Rondo
Sonata Allegro Form
4 Sections
Expo
Development
Recap
Coda
Exposition
First and second theme most important. Can develop theme through Augmentation, fragmentation, color change, key change
Sonata Form
Form for given movement within a genre
Chamber Music
Music in a small place, few instruments, purely instrumental
Overture
One Movemnt work to preceed an opera or play
Seco recitative
Singer with continual alone
Accompaied Recitative
Orchestral accompaniment to opera
De Capo Aria
ABA Form usually
Composer writes section AB then singer shows off on final A