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