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According to Monteverdi, what musical style represents the first practice?
Polyphony codified by Gioseffo Zarlino
According to proponents of the second practice, why could compositional rules be broken?
for text expression
Before it was applied to an artistic period, what was the meaning of the term "baroque"?
abnormal, bizarre, or in bad taste
For what reason did Giovanni Maria Artusi criticize Monteverdi's Cruda Amarilli?
unprepared dissonances
How did Baroque musicians view musical scores?
as a framework for performance
How did basso continuo engender (cause or give rise to a feeling, situation, or condition) a shift in thinking about dissonance?
It encouraged consideration of consonance and dissonance within chords, rather than as individual sets of intervals
In Baroque music, what is an elaborate passage that decorates an important cadence?
cadenza
In basso continuo
*a melody (or melodies) and bass line are notated, the remaining music is to be filled in harmonically is left for improvisation
In seventeenth-century Europe, where did musicians stand to earn the best living?
Italy
In the seventeenth century, the modal system declined and was eventually replaced by
tonality
In the seventeenth century, what were the affections?
emotional states of the soul
What did composers think was the healthiest way to use the affections?
They believed that a range of affections could bring people into better balance.
What is one fundamental part of our musical life that originated in the seventeenth century?
public concerts
What is one of the most important themes in seventeenth-century artistic output?
theatricality
What is the term for the performance of a figured bass line?
realization