MUSIC 27 Lecture Notes - Ostinato, Recitative, Renaissance Humanism
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Nin hurt dissonance, purcell dido"s lament (p. 92), josquin mille. Pitches or chords that feel unstable or sound to create tension, pain. Dissonance or discord creates tension, which makes us long for resolution to a consonance or to a cadence. (dido"s lament) Any short musical gesture repeated over and over again, in the bass or anywhere else. First commercial public theaters for opera open from 1637 in baroque. Recitative (speech-like part), aria (singing, stronger sense of meter) Dido"s lament (from dido and aeneas): basso ostinato or ground bass ( persistent" or obstinate" bass line) A typical baroque musical texture (p. 117) is the basso continuo sustained by three instruments; cello, lute, and harpsichord. Josquin mille regrets (p. 74) chanson (general any lyric-driven french song, usually polyphonic and secular), declamation. Expressive or affective power of music (homophonic textures clarify clear words and top voices)
