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Q. What is a play set to music sung to orchestral accompaniment?
A play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action is an opera.
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- Q. What is a play set to music sung to orchestral accompaniment?
- Q. What is a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech?
- Q. Is a musical idea repeated over and over?
- Q. What was another important musical form Purcell developed?
- Q. Who is hailed as the greatest English composer of all time?
- Q. What important development happened in 1672?
- Q. How do musical styles of Bach Purcell and Handel differ?
- Q. Which instrument did Bach not play?
- Q. What instrument did Bach play the best?
- Q. What era is Bach from?
- Q. What is BWV in classical music?
Q. What is a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech?
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| Term affections | Definition only one mood or emotion would be reflected in a piece |
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| Term recitative | Definition a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech |
| Term overture | Definition Orchestral piece at beginning of the opera that plays on the theme of the opera |
| Term Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei | Definition What are the 5 parts of Renaissance mass? |
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| Term Paris | Definition After 1150, where was the center of polyphonic music in Europe? |
| Term Medieval dance music | Definition What is an estampie? |
Q. Is a musical idea repeated over and over?
Ground bass (basso ostinato) Variation form in which a musical idea in the bass is repeated over and over while the melodies above it constantly change; common in baroque music.
Q. What was another important musical form Purcell developed?
Between 1680 and 1688 Purcell wrote music for seven plays. The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689.
Q. Who is hailed as the greatest English composer of all time?
Henry Purcell
Q. What important development happened in 1672?
One important new development from about 1672 was the establishment of public concerts, whose content the public even had a say in deciding. Purcell devoted many years of his short life to writing music to commissions which might be considered today to be far below what he was capable of.
Q. How do musical styles of Bach Purcell and Handel differ?
A general comparison of Bach’s with Handel’s music can be summarized as intensive melodies vs extensive melodies. Handel excels in broad and majestic motives while Bach’s melodies are intensive. Bach uses very dense contrapuntal texture with complex and chromatic harmonies.2
Q. Which instrument did Bach not play?
” ”Bach was familiar with the piano, you know. It was invented during his lifetime, and he not only played the piano, but actually composed at least two of his pieces specifically for the instrument,” Mr.8
Q. What instrument did Bach play the best?
violin
Q. What era is Bach from?
Baroque era
Q. What is BWV in classical music?
BWV stands for Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, or Bach Works Catalog. Wolfgang Schmieder assigned numbers to J.S. Bach’s compositions in 1950 for the cataloge Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach (Thematic-systematic catalog of musical works of Johann Sebastian Bach).
