Terms
Translated as "bizarre, flamboyant, or elaborate."
What is baroque?
This composer's death marked the end of the baroque era.
Who is Bach?
Main attraction of the opera for solo voice.
What is an aria?
What is a snake bite?
Music of the baroque period can be described as oneness using this phrase.
What is unity of mood?
These 2 words "fill" art and music in the baroque era.
What is action and movement?
This composer played violin and was a music director for a girl's orphanage in Italy.
Who is Vivaldi?
Section in an opera that imitates the rhythms and pitch of the orchestration - considered speech-like.
What is a recitative?
In Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, this caused Dido to commit suicide at the end of her lament.
What is Aeneas leaving Dido's kingdom (Carthage)?
An opera consists of this many acts.
What is 3?
Sung drama with orchestral accompaniment.
What is an opera?
This Italian composer might be questioned on her wealth and fame but was successful at creating beautiful harmonies.
Who is Barbara Strozzi?
Smaller vocal work that is like an opera (sacred or secular) but does not have acting, costumes, or scenery.
What is a cantata?
Vivaldi's solo concerto was a programmatic work depicting was natural phenomenon?
What are the Four Seasons?
This was Bach's denomination.
What is Lutheran?
What are terraced dynamics?
This English composer composed the oratorio, "The Messiah."
Who is Handel?
This instrumental form is polyphonic whose subject is stated in one voicing and repeated in others then changes throughout the piece.
What is a fugue?
This famous oratorio was written about the prophecies of this being.
Who is the Messiah (Jesus)?
This high society group of scholars and musicians convened to eventually create the baroquean opera.
What is the Florentine Camerata?
What is a prolific?
Monteverdi and Purcell wrote operas but differed in these nationalities.
What is English and Italian?
This instrumental form originally consisted on 3 movements (fast, slow, fast) and uses other forms like ritornello in the movements.
What is concerto grosso?
In a moment of desperation, Orfeo does this which causes his beloved Eurydice to disappear forever.
What is turns and looks back?
These 3 P reasons were why composers sought employment.
What is pay, prestige, and performance of their music?