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