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