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