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Contrast between opposing groups of voices and groups of instruments
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Instrumental form in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and full orchestra (the ripieno)
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Provided the harmonic structure of the music
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Bass-line with notes on a musical staff plus added numbers and accidentals under the staff
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States of the soul that the composers wished to evoke.
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Orfeo`s composer
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Stately German dance with a meter of 4/4
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Stately and slow spanish dance in 4/4
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Musical organization system which was developed during the baroque period
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Large musical composition about sacred topics.
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Lively french dance in 3/4
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First important opera
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Term originally borrowed from the style of architecture popular between 1600 and 1750
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Oratorio about the suffering of Jesus leading up to the Crucifixion.
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Fast dance in 6/8
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Art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and musical score with many of the elements of spoken theatre.
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Important Count who lived in Florence in the last Renaissance.
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Important group of baroque dances.
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