Matching Pairs Baroque TermsOnline version Vocabulary from the Baroque music period. by Vanessa Pintabona 1 A vertical line to mark a division between bars/measures 2 Period of music where composers and performers sought to evoke specific emotions with their work 3 A term used to describe accompanied solo singing of this time 4 A lack of harmony among musical notes; a tension or clash from a lack of harmony 5 Spontaneous-sounding singing used in opera to express emotion, sought to imitate speech 6 A melodious, strophic, lyrical monologue in an opera 7 A play in verse with incidental music, told of idyllic love in fields, woods, rustic youths and maidens, mythological characters 8 Male singers who were castrated before puberty to preserve their high range 9 A drama sung to continuous or nearly continuous music and staged with scenery, costumes and action 10 Combinations of sharps or flats indicating the key of the piece/what notes should be played 11 A play usually written with rhymed and unrhymed verse 12 Technique where the composer wrote only the melody and the bass and the performer had to fill in appropriate chords in between Opera Recitative Key signatures Libretto Baroque Monody Bar line Aria Pastoral drama Castrati Dissonance Basso continuo
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