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Baroque Features (STRUCTURE (Ritornello - repeated refrain and in-between…
Baroque Features
STRUCTURE
Ritornello - repeated
refrain
and in-between
episodes
.
Ternary form
Rounded binary form
Strophic
(dances)
Fugue
structure
MELODY
Scalic
or
arpeggiaic
melody lines.
Use of
sequence
.
Imitation
between instruments.
Leaps tend to be to a
fourth
or
fifth
.
Ornamentation
of melody lines.
HARMONY
Functional
harmony
Frequent use of
perfect
cadences to underpin tonality.
Mostly
root position
or
1st inversion
chords.
Slow rate of
harmonic change
- speeds up towards cadences.
Stock progressions -
Ic-V-I
GENRE
Concerto grosso
- with
concertino
and
ripieno
Solo concerto
Suite of
dances.
Opera
(early)
Keyboard
works/studies.
INSTRUMENTATION/SONORITY
String-heavy
instrumentation in orchestral pieces.
Use of
continuo
(keyboard/lute and low string instrument.
Keyboard instruments -
harpsichord/organ/virginal
.
Mid-range writing - no extremes.
TEXTURE
Contrapuntal textures frequently used.
Use of
melody-dominated homophony
Frequent use of imitation/stretto
RHYTHM
Frequent semiquaver/quaver running sections.
Hemiola
- feeling of 2 in a bar in a piece in 3.
Frequent
dotted
rhythms.
DYNAMICS
Repeats of phrases that are
loud
are often
piano
(like an echo)
Terraced Dynamics
PIECES TO LISTEN TO
Bach - Double String
Concerto
Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op.6
no.8