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Baroque Period
Chapter 7
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Music
Undergraduate 2
05/04/2010

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From Renaissance to Baroque
Definition
musical form was becoming more controleld and systematic
individualized emotion through music
extravagance and magnificence

more regular rhythm, first use of meter and bar line

Absolutism

Age of science - music becomes more scientific, systematized and calculated
Term
Basso Continuo
Definition
creating an accompaniment from a composed bass part by playing the bass notes and improvising harmony above them
Term
opera
Definition
drama presented in music
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recitative
Definition
technique of declaiming words musically in a heightened, theatrical manner
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aria
Definition
an extended piece for solo singer that has much more musical elaboration and coherence than a passage of recitative
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Dynamics
Definition
more consistent
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