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