Johann Sebastian Bach
Arnstadt, Mülhausen, Weimar, Cöthen, Leipzig
In what cities did Bach work throughout his life?
A piece for organ that incorporates a Lutheran chorale.
What is an organ chorale
The Red Priest
What was Vivaldi's nickname?
Traité de harmonie
Rameau
He wrote pieces for every combination of instruments.
Vivaldi
Frederick the Great of Prussia and the Musical Offering
Who did Bach visit three years before his death and what piece did he compose in his honor?
Concerto Form
What sorts of pieces include an exposition, episode, ritornello, rpisode, ritonello, etc.
The Ospedale della Pietà
What was the name for the home for orphaned, illegitimate, or poor girls.
Saul
What is one of Handel's oratorios
He was fifty years old before he found success as a composer
Ramean
J.S. Bach's brother Johann Christian Bach.
Who was Bach's music teacher after the death of his parents?
Exposition, Bridge, Episode, Exposition, Episode
What is a fugue
J.S. Bach
What prominent composer did Vivaldi influence?
Italy
Where did Handel study
England
Handel
Scheibe's opinion of JS Bach.
Bach was "an extraordinary artist on the clavier [harpsichord and clavichord] and organ."
BUT
Bach's music is unpleasantness. His works are "bombastic, confused" and "suffocates naturalness in his pieces through excessive artifice."
Five of the most important types of pieces or genres included in French opera
What are simple and measured recitatives, arias, chorus, and dances (also the overture and prologue).
Sequencing, chains of suspensions, walking basses, and imitation.
What sort of musical devices did Vivaldi incorporate in his music that came to define Italian music?
Castrato/Castrati
What type of voice sang the most important male parts in Handel's opera
He composed pieces that often incorporate a chorale motet, recitatives, arias, and a final chorale
J.S. Bach
The theological principals that governed Bach's compositional practice.
What are given and human Beauty and diversity of particulars uniting.
Mixed Taste or Style
What are the two words that describe 18th-c. German style?
Vivaldi's Four Seasons Concertos
What group of four concertos is Vivaldi best known for?
Hippolyte et Aricie
Thuringia
What is the area in German where Bach lived and worked?