A dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and musical score, in a theatrical setting. Use of scenery, and costumes as well. Written by composers for the parties of the royalty they worked for.
What is Opera?
100
Composed the Magic Flute
Who is Mozart?
100
The topic of the first operas.
What are greek plays?
100
Terms that refer to the range of voices (name them all).
What is a soprano (high female voice), mezzo-soprano (low female voice), counter-tenor (man in falsetto), tenor (male high voice) and Bass or Baritone (Man with low voice).
100
A man with a very high voice.
What is a counter-tenor?
200
A song sung by a character in ABA' form.
What is a Da Capo Aria?
200
Wrote L'Orfeo
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
200
A play written by Beaumarchais.
What is The Marriage of Figaro?
200
Previously referred to as a melisma, this term is used to describe many notes sung on one syllable moving quickly.
What is coloratura
200
The kinds of stories opera told shifted from one subject to another. Those subjects are...
What are greek plays? Later in history what are love, chivalry, everyday stories, politics, war...
300
The difference between opera and oratorio
What is staging, costumes, and subject matter.
300
The composer that has a street or square in every town named after him.
Who is Verdi?
300
The Beaumarchais play was turned in to an opera by this composer.
Who is Mozart?
300
The predecessor of the piano
What is the harpsichord?
300
Sung dialogue
What is recitative
400
The periods of music.
What are antiquity, medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, 20th century?
400
This composer wrote 42 operas.
Who is Handel
400
The third attempt at opera was composed in this year.
What is 1607?
400
A song sung by a single character.
What is an aria?
400
A group of intellectuals who met and discussed many topics. They were the group that first came up with the idea of an opera.
What is the Florentine Camerata?
500
musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. various distinguishable characters, and arias. It is strictly a concert piece.
What is an oratorio?
500
The main four composers of opera in the baroque and the countries they are from.
Who are Vivaldi (Italy), Handel (Germany), Rameau (France), and Purcell (England).
500
The stories and composers that make up "The Enchanted Island"
What are Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and Purcell
500
The names of the 7 modes.
What are Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian?