early music history
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- Concerted madgrigal
- one or more voices and continuo
- sacred concerto
- a sacred vocal work with instruments
- prima prattica or stile antico
- pure counterpoint, fit for church
- seconda prattica or stile moderno
- expressive, fit for solo song and dramatic works
- baroque or barroco
- irregularly shaped pearl, extravagant or unnatural
- doctrine of affections
- based on interest in greek writings, each piece should project a single affection.
- Underlying threads of changing to baroque asthetic
- Doctrine of the affections, New textures, basso continuo accopaniment. Thinking chordally. Modes give way to tonality.
- Notational developments
- Barlines. Proportion signs replaced by time signatures
- The Florentine Camerata
- movement towards monodic style, one vocal line over basso continuo, caccini. 1570s
- Le nuove musiche
- Caccini's set of arias and solo magrigals, 1602
- arioso
- passages that lie somewhere between aria and recitative
- stile concitato
- excited style, characterized by rapid reiteration on a single note
- Handel (bio, output, influences)
- German, studied in italy, worked in england. Operas, Oratorio, Organ concerto. Kaiser, Corelli
- Bach (bio, output, influences)
- German, A musical offering, The art of fugue, Vivaldi, Telemann
- Vivaldi (bio, output, "claim to fame", form)
- master of italian baroque concerto, 480 concertos, F-S-F, ritornello form
- what is a partita?
- synonym for set of variations, and synonym for suite
- what is a chorale cantata?
- a vocal chamber work with continuo, has recitatives, and arias
- what is an oratorio (passion)?
- unstaged opera, usually on religious subject. Passion is a setting of one of the accounts of jesus's crucifixtion
- opera seria
- opera on serious subject, as opposed to comic opera. Plot second to fine singing, action told via secco recitative.