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| Nickname for Vivaldi – due to the color of his hair. |
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| Vocal music without instrumental accompaniment. |
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| Part of Opera – main songs, plot stops, highlight of Opera. |
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| First formed Orchestra based on strings, 10 – 40 in size. |
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| Piece for an orchestra that pits a soloist (or many) against the full orchestra. |
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| Part of opera – 2 – 4 Singers singing back and forth, melody with dialog. |
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| Polyphonic with 3 – 5 melodic choices that follows Subject – Answer – Subject – Answer from all ending together. |
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| Plain Chant/Song – monophonic – texts are most important – mostly non-secular |
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| Part of Mass Ordinary – prayer for mercy – greek language – earliest form. |
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| Secular music with or without instruments set to a poem. |
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| Reenactment of the sacrafice of Christ in – Two Parts – Proper and Ordinary |
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| A B A form in triple meter often in third movement of classical piece. |
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| One sound/melody/voice with no accompaniment. |
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| Contains a constant pulse/beat throughout music. |
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| Similar to Opera, religious in nature, but no sets/costumes or dance. |
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| Part of Mass that remained static |
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| Received a dedicated mass by Palestrina for his abonishment of choir during holy week because of poor vocals. |
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| Part of Opera – Speech dialog sung – advances plot. |
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| 1450 – 1600 – Considered rebirth – increase in secular society, science takes hold, merchant class moves up, musicians employed |
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| Music returns within each movement – A B A C A, found within Concertto Grosso. |
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| Form A B A1 – Exposition in 2 contrasting themes (1 original key, 1 different), Development expressive composition varied off of Theme 1, Recapitulation recaps Theme 1 and 2, but varied slightly, in original key. Found in Concerto and Symphony. |
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| A solo melody that is followed by the answer, part of Fugue. |
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| With each syllabol of chant assigned a note/pitch |
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| Piece of music formed in classical era – multimovement (4 most common) for large orchestra. |
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| Common in Baroque period, very steady with suddent/quick changes in volume. |
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| Harmony varies in accordance to the text – direct correlation. |
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| First note of the scale/key. |
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