Baroque Music
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- Created on: 03-10-15 15:56
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- Baroque Music
- Tonality
- Composers stopped writing modal music
- Composers began to use major or minor keys
- Modulating became a popular way of creating contrast in music
- Composers developed new structures such as binary, ternary and rondo
- Dynamics change suddenly(no crescendos or diminuendos) this is called terraced or stepped dynamics
- Lots of motifs and repetition
- Simple harmonies, mainly chords I and V
- Lots of Ornaments
- Often contrapuntal(polyphonic)
- Often has a Basso Continuo
- Choral Music
- MASS- Part of the Catholic Church service set to music
- REQUIEM- Mass for the dead
- CHORALE- Hymn
- ORATORIO- Religious version of an opera usually telling a Bible story
- Oratorios aren't usually acted out
- CANTATA- Vocal pieces made up of two or three arias, separated by recitatives
- OPERA- A story set to singing, usually in three acts
- OPERA SERIA- Serious often mythological themes
- OPERA BUFFA- Light, everyday themes
- OPÉRA COMIQUE- Like opera buffa but with some spoken recitatives
- OPERETTA- Not big enough to be a proper opera
- An aria is a solo voice piece
- A recitative is a piece which tells the story
- A chorus is sung by the whole choir
- Tonality
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