Baroque Terminology

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  1. 1. A genre invented in the Baroque era combining music, drama and dance to tell a story (usually secular), with costumes and elaborate staging.
  2. 3. The principal keyboard instrument for church music in the Baroque era. Often nicknamed the king of instruments.
  3. 7. A work for one or more voices with instrumental accompaniment, with a sacred text (but sometimes secular). Smaller in scope than an oratorio.
  4. 8. A common compositional techniques used in the Baroque era whereby a melody is played against itself at different entry points.
  5. 10. A type of musical texture whereby a primary part is supported by one or more additional strands that provide the harmony.
  6. 11. A technique where a note is sustained or "held over" from the previous chord into the next one, creating a dissonance.
  7. 15. A musical composition typically on a religious theme performed by solo voices, chorus, and orchestra in a concert setting.
  8. 17. An important element of Baroque performance practice used to intensify the emotion of a composition via embellishment, and to showcase the virtuosity of the performer.
  9. 18. A stringed keyboard instrument that produces sound by plucking the strings, used most commonly in the Baroque era.
  10. 20. A composition in which a short melody or phrase is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
  11. 21. The text or script of an opera or oratorio.
  12. 22. A passage in vocal music written to emulate the pace, declamation, and natural inflections of speech.
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  1. 2. The era before the Baroque.
  2. 4. A type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody.
  3. 5. A musical texture during which a single instrument plays, or multiple instruments play in unison.
  4. 6. A male singer who was castrated before puberty to preserve the high pitch of his voice.
  5. 9. A work for one or more solo instruments accompanied by an orchestra.
  6. 12. The bass part that is performed by the harpsichord and lower strings.
  7. 13. Part of a large vocal work, designed for characters to pause and reflect on the action and showcase their vocal virtuosity.
  8. 14. The predominant instrumental family in the Baroque orchestra.
  9. 16. The four voice types in a Chorus are Soprano, Alto, ______, and Bass.
  10. 19. A set of dances - allemande, courant, sarabande, gigue, and sometimes others - performed as one large work.