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Accompanied Recitatative
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Recitative that uses orchestral accompaniment to dramatize the text.
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Act
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Main division of an Opera. Most operas have 2-5 acts
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Affections
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Objectified or archtypal emotions or states of mind.
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Air de Cour
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Type of song for voice and accompianiment, prominent in france
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Allemande
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Highly stylized dance in binary form, in moderatly fast quadruple meter, popular during the Renaissance and baroque
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Aria
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an italian strophic poem for a singer
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Arioso
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Short Aria like passage
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Belletto, Ballett
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16th century italian song genre, homophonic style with repeated sections and "fa-la-la" refrains
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Baroque
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musical history period from 1600 to about 1750. from portuguese "misshapen pearl"
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Basso Continuo
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"continuous bass" system of notation
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Branle Gay
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Renaissance dance in lively triple meter
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Camerata
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"circle" or "association" circle of intelectualls and amateurs of the arts that met in florance in late 1500's
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Cantillation
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chantin of a sacred text by a solo singer, particularly in the Jewish synagogue
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Canzona
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16th century genre, an instrumental work adapted from a chanson.
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Canzonetta, Canzonet
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16th century italian song genre in a simple mostly homophonic style
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Cappriccio
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Baroque period, a fugal piece in continuous imatative counterpoint
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Chaconne
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consists of variations over a basso continuo
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Choral Prelude
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Short setting for organ of a choral melody, used as intro for congregational singing or as an interlude in a lutheran chruch service
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Choral Varitaions
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A set aof variations on a choral melody
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Concertato Medium
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the compoination of voices with 1 or more instruments where the instruments play independent parts
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consort
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for a group of instruments can be either full of broken consort
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consort song
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renaissance english genre for voice accompianed by consort of viols
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Cornett
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made of wood or ivory, fingerholes and cup mouthpiece, blown like a brass instrument
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Crumhorn
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reniassance wind instrument with double reed enclosed in a cap so lips dont touch
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