Baroque Period

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What are dynamics in music?

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The volume of the music (loud or soft)

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What are tempo markings?

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Directions that tell the performer how fast a piece of music should be played.

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Making up the music as you play is called ______________ and this practice was common even in ___________?

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improvisation, church

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Baroque composers began to use music to express what?

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emotions

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The Baroque Period saw the birth of a new form of vocal music called _________.

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opera

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Definition - the word comes from a Portuguese term meaning “irregularly shaped pearl”

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baroque

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oratorio

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musical work involving an orchestra and singers, usually telling a story based on a sacred text or theme

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Definition - a staged drama that is mostly sung with an orchestra as accompaniment

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opera

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Definition - a composition consisting of imitative counterpoint in which the main idea is stated in each voice at different points in the music

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fugue

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Was Handel encouraged by his family to pursue music?

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No