The Baroque Period

play, set to music and sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.

set of dance - inspired movments

large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text.

text, or book, of a musical dramatic work.

orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work.

Song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment

Sung piece; choral work with or without vocal soloists; usually with orchestral accompaniment.

Hymn tune for congregational use

instrumental composition in which a small group of soloists is pitted against a larger group.

imitation of a fugue subject before it is completed.

Instrumental composition based on a chorale.

single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while the other voices produce a series of changing harmonies against it.

Bass part together with numbers ( figures) specifying the chords to be played above it.

polyphonic composition based on one main theme.

section of a musical work that sounds fairly complete and independent, but is part of a larger composition.

vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech.

instrumental composition in several movements

ornament consisting of the rapid alterations of two tones that are a whole or half step apart.

Fugue in G minor ( little fugue )

Orfeo

Brandenburg Concerto NO. 5

Wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme.

Messiah

Dido and aneas

Spring Concerto, op. 8, no. !, from the four seasons