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