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