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Partial List of Musical Terms for Music 110C Midterm ReviewPeople (should know nationality, position and/or relationship to Bach)Bach’s contemporary composers

Georg Böhm (German [Thuringia] organist and composer)Dieterich Buxtehude (German Baroque composer, organist, lutenist)Arcangelo Corelli (Italian Baroque composer, violinist)Francois Couperin (French Baroque composer)Georg Frideric Handel (born in German, but considered “English Baroquecomposer”. Born same year as Bach) Johann Kuhnau (predecessor at Thomaskirche, composer) Johann Pachelbel (German Baroque composer, organist)Georg Philipp Telemann (German baroque composer, Godfather to Bach’s son,founder of

collegium musicum

)Antonio Vivaldi (Italian Baroque composer. Bach transcribed his concertos)

Others contemporaries: employers, acquaintances, collaborators…

Georg Erdmann (classmate at Ohrdruf) J. A. Ernesti (Leipzig rector at Thomasschule) Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (virtuoso keyboardist. Studied with Bach. “GoldbergVariations” written for him)Count von Keyserlingk (Goldberg Variations dedicated to him)Louis Marchand (French virtuoso)Frederick the Great (King of Prussia, flutist)“Picander” (Christian Friedrich Henrici) librettist/collaborator with Bach (St.Matthew Passion)Martin Luther (16

century. German monk. Associated with beginnings of Lutheranism)Prince Leopold (Cöthen)Princess Friderica Henrietta (Prince Leopold’s new wife)Prince Johann Ernst (Weimar)Duke Wilhelm Ernst (Weimar)Scheibe (critic, Leipzig)Gottfried Zimmerman (Zimmerman’s Coffee house)

Biographer/people who revived or helped Bach’s legacy

Forkel (biographer)Wolfgang Schmieder (19

century biographer, assigned BWV numbers)Mendelssohn (Romantic composer, pianist, conductor, reviver of Bach’s music)

Family

Viet Bach (b. 1578 in Hungary. founder of Bach family, great-great grandfather to J.S. Bach)Emanuel (son)Maria Barbara (first wife from 1707. Also first-cousin)Anna Magdalena (second wife from 1721. singer) Johann Christoff (brother, raised him in Ohrdruf)

J.G. Walther (relative. Teacher to Prince Johann Ernst)

Types of musicians and/or positions:(what is the difference betweenthese positions. Which positions are ranked higher and/or moreprestigious)

CapellmeisterConcert MeistercantorChurch organistCourt organist

Stadtpfeifer StadtmusicusCollegium musicum

Grosse Concert

Technical Terms used to describe music techniques and form

Basso continuoCantus firmusChoraleChorale fantasiaContinuocross motif Melisma/melismaticMotives (motifs)motif: BACH motif ObbligatoPhrases/sections (sections marked by letters: ABC)Punctus contra punctumRecitativo accompagnatoRecitativo seccosecco, accompagnatostile antico (old style)stile nuovo (recitative)cadenceparodycounterpoint (contrapuntal, polyphony)fugue terms: subject, answer, episodestrettoimitativekeys/key signaturetonic, dominantdiatonic, chromaticmodulation“halo music” (St. Matthew Passion)

“turba choruses” (St. Matthew Passion)

Musica forms or movements:

Da capo form: ABA (also ternary form)Variation Form: AA’A’’A’’’…Symmetrical structurePreludeFantasia ToccataFrench overturefuguesvariationscanonEnsemble or solo suitesAriaPassacaglia (ground bass, basso ostinato, chaconne)ChoraleCantataRitornelloRicercarConcertoMass (sections of)Opera Toccata Theme and VariationsSuite movements (prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, minuet, gigue)

Other terms (misc)

Well tempered verses equal tempered (tuning)BWV (Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis) (Bach Works Catalogue)Bach Gesellshaft (formed in 1850. Society to publish Bach’s works)

Terms to describe different styles/schools of performing in the Baroque:

North German Organ School Types of music Bach wrote (generally speaking)Secular music: concertos, sonatas, burlescas)Higher music-study (counterpoint, fugue, four-part harmonization)

Places where Bach lived/ Dates, travels and employmentEisenach

(1685-1695)Born, lived with parents til their deaths (within a year of each other)1692: Enters Lateinschule, Eisenach

Ohrdruf

(1695-1700)