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Struck string instrument with keyboard, which almost always performs the basso continuo in the Baroque orchestra.
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Style of declaimed singing which makes the progress of the action more agile
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German adaptation ot the opera buffa.
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Instrumental section which puts together the different parts or scenes o an opera.
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Dance with a slow, ternary rhythm
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Dance with a slow binary rhytm.
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Fast dance with a ternary rhythm
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Compound instrumental form in three movements which contrasts a soloist or a group of soloists with the orchestra
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Instrumental beginning of an opera
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Opera with a religious subject that, makes use of a narrator and more choirs.
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Typical Spanish version of the Italian opera buffa
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Specialized performers capable of playing wonderful pieces of great techinical difficulty.
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Musical instruments craftsman (especially string instruments)
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Luther's protestant hymn which became part of the great forms of religious music in Germany.
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Small group of soloists who competed with the orchestra in a concerto grosso.
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Compound vocal form which may be about religious or profane subjects, and which responds to the definition of "music for singing"
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Concert which contrasts a group of soloists with the rest of the orchestra.
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Type of aristocratic opera written in Italian, with heroic plots and castrati.
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compound instrumental form composed by a sequence of several dance movements.
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Name which indicates the intervention of the whole orchestra in response to soloists
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Fast dance in 6/8 time
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Compound vocal form of narrative nature and with stage performance, which marked the beginning of the musical Baroque
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Type of popular oera which had diferent names outside of Italy. It included passages with dialogue
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Style of melodic and expressive singing which the protagonists use in the most emotional moments.