oratorio

drama with religious subject but not liturgical purpose

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not staged with costumes and sets

in english, feature choruses

during lent 

Handel
Messiah- text is from bible, recitative to accompanied recitative to recitative to accompanied rec. to chorus
ritornello

focuses on contrast between two musical ideas or groups of ideas, one for solo and one for orchestra

function is to return as many times as stable element of the form

at beginning of many kinds of baroque msuical forms 

concerto

composition for orchestra with solo instrument, contrast between orchestra and soloist

concerto grosso

contrast between orchestra and small group of soloists

 

variation form

form in which a single musical unit is repeated over and over with constant changes and embellishments

successive, uniterrupted repetition of one melodic unit 

vivaldi

concerto in g, op4 no 12

rit, ground bass, rit

 

fugue

systemized imitative polyphony

polyphonic composition for a fixed numebr of instruments

exposition: over when all introduce subject

subject entries

episodes

theme=fugue subject 

fugue subject

theme that is the basis of a fugue, appearing in each voice in return

appears again and again in each instrumental voice 

bach

art of fugue

interested in long, melodious episodes that come between subject entries 

countersubject

melodic idea that is played against a primary subject of a fugue

contrasts the fugal subject 

fugue episode
part where there the subject is not present, or is only present in a fragmentary form
stretto
when a voice enters with the fugue subject before the previous voice has finished presenting it
canon

a tune that when sung by multiple voices at regular intervals apart can provide accompaniment for itself

liek a round 

haydn

symphony no 95

sonata, variation, minuet trio, rondo

 

rondo form

brings back theme completely and in the same key

used mainly for closing movements

main tune recurs again and again after episodes that serve as spacers between its appearances

like rit but brings bakc entire thing not just fragments 

classical variation form

repetition of clearly defined melodic unit, or theme with various changes at each repetition

create many contrasting moods with same theme 

minuet form

 

triple meter

minuet, trio, minuet (aba) 

third movement of haydn symphony

 

symphony

4 movements

always begin with sonata form 

sonata form

opening movement of a symphony

exposition, development(highly dramatic, confusion), recapitulation (can contain coda, big cadence with short concluding section=coda)

beethoven

5th symphony

sonata, variation, coda, scherzo (triple meter) and separated by trio, sonata

 c minor

chamber music

music designed to be played in  aroom

inimate

2 to 9 players

beethoven- string quartet 

program music

instrumental compositions associated with poems, stories, etc.

other mediums of art 

Vienna
beethoven, haydn, mozart, schubert
Berlioz

fantiastic symphony

program music

idea fixe, dies irae

 

idee fixe

fixed recurring melodic idea that crops up through berlioza fantastic symphony

 

dies irae
day of wrath, portrays death, illustrates emotion
lied

romantic song in german for solo voice and piano accompaniment

means song in german 

schubert

viennese composer

erlkonig- lied

through composed 

through composed

stanzas not all set to same music

erlkonig

schubert 

schumann

german composer

dichterliebe – lied

sad

strophic- music matches words for all stanzas 

song cycle
group of songs with a common poetic theme or actual story connecting all the poems
strophic
when music for verses all the same for each stanza
mozart

symphony no 40

sonata form