Baroque and Classical Info
Opera arose around this year.
What is 1600c.e.?
Opera seria is a style of Baroque opera that originated in this country.
What is Italy?
I am known as the Red Priest and am especially remembered for my many concertos.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This is the favorite featured instrument of the Classical sonata.
What is the piano?
This is the major genre developed by Classical composers.
What is the symphony?
The Marriage of Figaro Act II Finale is from this genre.
What is an opera?
The Classical style emerged in this century.
What is the eighteenth-century?
This is the most important genre in Baroque secular vocal music.
What is opera?
Stylized dances were meant for this.
What is listening, not dancing?
A string quartet consists of these instruments.
What are 2 violins, a viola, and a cello?
The first movement in most Classical symphonies is generally in this form.
What is sonata form?
Italian comic opera was called this.
What is opera buffa?
This is the predominant musical texture of the Classical Era.
What is homophony?
This style of singing is characterized by fast runs and scales, a large pitch range, cadenzas, and virtuosic displays of all sorts.
What is coloratura?
This form is based on the periodic return of a central musical theme by the orchestra.
What is ritornello?
The string quartet may have as many movements as this genre.
What is the symphony?
This was only one of Mozart’s operas that was successful during his lifetime.
What is The Magic Flute?
This skill became important for singers of opera buffa, which was not necessarily expected of previous generations of opera singers.
What is lifelike and comedic acting?
In his writings, Rousseau attacked this.
What is the operatic style of the Baroque era?
The technique of declaiming words musically in a heightened, theatrical manner is called this.
What is recitative?
The term concerto comes from the Latin word concertare, which indicates in the concerto there is this happening.
What is a contest between the soloist and the orchestra?
This many people are usually needed to play a Classical sonata.
What are one or two?
A true man of the Enlightenment, I was a friend to Mozart and am known as the "Father of the Symphony".
Who is Joseph Haydn? (1732-1809)
This voice type was used for buffone parts in operas.
What is the bass?
This is an instrument from the Baroque period that has been revived.
What is the harpsichord?
Castrati usually sang these parts.
What are soprano and alto?
A concerto grosso emphasizes the contrast between an orchestra and this.
What is a small group of soloists?
A Classical sonata will generally have this many movements?
What are three?
This composer was a rival to Mozart, was born to a slave mother and white father, and had all the benefits his father could provide while living in France.
Who is Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges? (1745-1799)
An operatic number sung by two or more people is called this.
What is the ensemble?
Music during the Enlightenment was meant to do this.
What is to please and entertain?
This genre is the most secular of all religious genres.
What is oratorio?
A collection of miscellaneous dances grouped together was called this.
What is a dance suite?
Classical sonatas were originally designed to be performed in this place.
What are private homes?
This dance type from the Baroque suite survived into the Classical era.
What is the minuet?
Mozart used ensembles in his operas to do this.
What is show what several characters were thinking at the same time?
The two most important composers during the Baroque era are these individuals.
Who are J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel?
The standard form for the Baroque Italian opera aria is called this.
What is da capo form?
Instrumental music that tries to convey a story, action, or events is called this.
What is program music?
In the Classical era, the string quartet was intended to perform in these places.
What are small, intimate gatherings?
This genre is described as a contest between the soloist and the orchestra.
What is the concerto?
King Louis XVI ban Beaumarchais’ The Marriage of Figaro (the play on which Mozart’s opera was based) because of this.
What is it criticized the aristocracy.
These two things best describe the dualism found in Baroque art and music?
What are pomp and extravagance versus system and calculation?
Many Baroque operas deal with this ancient culture whereas oratorios deal with this ancient culture.
Answer must be given in the correct order.
What is ancient Greece and ancient Israel?
The outstanding element of a fugue is this.
What is systematized imitative polyphony?
Unlike European orchestras, all gagaku orchestras are dominated by this instrument family.
What is the woodwind family?
This form is used in the concerto and features this progression.
What is double-exposition form? The orchestra plays the first exposition, and the soloist plays the second.
The Marriage of Figaro was based on this.
What is a play by Beaumarchais.