Music History - Instrumental Music of the 17th Century

Instrumental music of the 17th century

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List 3 things that early baroque instrumental music had?
New instruments New Roles for instrumental music New Genres New Styles Equality with vocal music Growing number of published works
At the beginning of the century, composers did not specify instruments. When they began, what instruments were written for?
Modern organs Double-Manual Harpsichords Improved wind instruments the Violin family
Name the three types of instrumental music
Variations Abstracts Dance music
Name the types of variations, abstracts and dance musics.
Variations or Partita Chanconne or passacaglia Tocatta or Prelude Ricercar, fantasia or fugue Canzona or sonata Minuet, bouree, alamande
In northern Germany what sorts of works were being produced?
Organ works on pre-existing melodies Chorales Chorale variation or partita Chorale fantasia Chorale prelude
Name 3 things describing the Tocatta?
Principle improvisionary genre for lute and keyboard played on harpsichord as chamber music played on organ as church music began as warm up pieces in the 16th century and continued into the 17th century
Who was Girolamo Frescobaldi?
Important composer of Toccatas organist for st peter's in rome
Who was Jan Peiterzoon Sweelinck?
Great German composer Fantasia Chromatica
Name three things about lute music in France?
Lute music flourished in France in the early 17th century Ornamentation was popular and influenced keyboard music The harpischord displaced the lute as main solo instrument Jean-Henry D'Anglebert harpsichord treatise of 1689 contains a table of agrements
What was the Style Brise?
A way that lute players created an arpeggiated texture, which was imitated by harpsichord players.
Dance music of the 17th century was...
Stylized Binary Two equal sections, each repeated the first leads from tonic to dominant the second returns back to the tonic
List the movements of a Suite of dance music?
Allemande Courante Sarabande Gigue
List extra dances sometimes inserted into a Suite.
Gavotte Minuet
What was a Chorale Prelude?
Single variation on a chorale subject using a number of techniques used to introduce chorale before the congregation would sing
Who was Johann Jacob Froberger?
Frescobaldi's most famous student Organist at the imperial court in Vienna Set the standard for suite order across Europe (excluding England)