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From the beginning?
DA CAPO
An unstaged dramatic sacred work, featuring solo singers?
ORATORIO
A musical setting of the story from the gospels of the death and resurrection of Jesus?
A PASSION
A carefully worked out polyphonic composition that uses a theme that occurs in all the voices, or musical lines, in turn?
FUGUE
A rambling , improvisatory piece of the kind that organists play to fill in time before, during, or after a chruch service?
PRELUDE
Music that is designed to tell a story?
PROGRAM MUSIC
Exploits the contrast between the solo instruments and the orchestra in a highly organized way?
RITORNELLO
Freer in form and quite short?
RECITATIVE
Usually written in set forms with a fixed pattern of repetition?
ARIAS
A type of music written for solo Voice and basso continuo that imitated the natural rhythms of impassioned speech?
MONODY
Basso continuo is AKA?
CONTINUO
A composition based on the gospel account of the last days of Jesus?
PASSION
A hymn with a steady rhythm and simple tune, usually sung in unison by the whole congregation?
CHORALE
A work for a small group of instruments?
sonata
Are chamber works, smaller in scale than concertos and less dependent on contrast?
SONATAS
Instrumental work, usually in three movements, highlighting contrast?
CONCERTO
A serious contrapuntal instrmental piece based on the style of secular songs?
CANZONA
Secular vocals pieces for a small group of singers, usually unaccompanied?
MADRIGAL
A musical passage that presents a single tiny musical phrase imitated among the voices?
POINT OF IMITATION
The next group of voices begins it's statements just as the first group comes to a cadence?
OVERLAPPING CACDENCES
Are like colors used in paintings?
MODES
A large number of notes sung to a single syllable?
MELISMATIC
The vocal music for church services from the middle ages is known as?
PLAINCHANT
A special effect involving dynamic contrast in which the exact repetition of a phrase at a lower volume suggest distance?
ECHO
Echoing the meaning of words?
WORD-PAINTING
Renaissance?
REBIRTH
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