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