Elements
Elaborately ornamented and frequently repeated pitch patterns describe this element of Baroque Music.
What is Melody ?
The word 'Baroque' can be described as these many things.
What are bizarre, flamboyant, elaborately ornamental, and misshapen pearl?
This is a piece that sounds fairly complete on its own but is part of a larger composition.
What is a movement?
This is a composition for 1-8 instruments in several dance inspired movements.
What is a Suite?
This composer was born in London.
Who is Henri Purcell?
What is Rhythm?
The Baroque period is known as the age of this type of ruling.
What is Absolutism?
This is a hymn tune sung to a German religious text.
What is Chorale?
This vocal composition type combines soloists, ensembles, choruses, orchestra, staging, scenery, and costumes.
What is Opera?
This composer was known as the "Red Priest".
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
These were the trends in texture in the Baroque.
What are homophonic and polyphonic?
Often times in Baroque Music, the higher pitched vocal parts were sung by these singers rather than women.
What were Castrati and Countertenors?
This is the text that an opera is set to.
What is a Libretto?
This composer came from a long line of town musicians and wrote in every style except opera.
Who is Johann Sebastian (J.S) Bach?
This word describes the style of dynamics in the Baroque Period.
What are Terraced Dynamics?
This was an Italian group of nobles, poets, and composers who are credited for creating opera.
Who was the Camerata?
This is a vocal song type that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech. This type is common to Opera, Oratorio, and Cantata.
What is Recitative?
This vocal composition type was the focal point of the Lutheran Service.
What is Cantata?
This composer did not come from a musical family, and eventually moved to England.
Who is George Frideric Handel?
This concept describes the emotion or affect in a Baroque piece of music.
What is Unity of Mood?
The Baroque style in visual arts exhibited dramatic use of color and contrast to create a spaced with this concept.
What is a sense of action or movement?
This is a song for solo voice and orchestra that is emotionally expressive and showcases the soloist. This type of song is found in Opera, Oratorio, and Cantata.
What is an Aria?
This musical composition type is polyphonic and based on a subject or theme.
What is a Fugue?
This composer struggled most of his career until he was appointed Music Director at St Mark's Cathedral for 30 years.
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