Music for a while notes

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Mid to late Baroque period

Terraced dynamics, ornamented melodic lines (for the singer, not in score),

From Oedipus, act 1, scene 3,

Theatre royal,

Counter Tenor (equivilant to female mezzo soprano),

Not a stand alone work,

Second of 4 movements,

Incidental music,

Basso continuo, (harpsichord, stringed instruments),

Plays a dramatic role in play,

Basso ostinato (ground bass),

Repeating pattern of bass notes,

Figured bass, (Improvisation)

Lower mordent (note to note below and then back),

Syllabic,

Word-painting, (wondering, eternal, snakes, drop),

Imitation, (harpsichord imitates vocal line),

Uses a ground bass,

Sounds like a continuous stream of music,

Texture is full on,

Dissonant intervals,

Suspension,

Tierce de Picardie,

Onomatopoeic,

De capo aria,

Arpeggiated,

Obbligato,

Binary form,

Cantata,

Gavotte,