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