Composers
This Baroque composer, known for his violin concertos, was born in Venice in 1678.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This famous Baroque composition is a set of 12 concertos for string instruments and basso continuo, often associated with the changing seasons.
What is The Four Seasons?
Written for two solo instruments and basso continuo.
What is a trio sonata?
This effect was achieved by changing the number of instruments or voices performing at the same time.
What are terraced dynamics?
Stringing sequences of chords together to create movement through music.
This Baroque composer from Germany is renowned for his intricate and highly expressive organ music.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This famous Baroque composition, commonly associated with the holiday season, features the "Pastoral Symphony" and is often performed in a church or concert hall.
What is "Messiah?"
Consisting of three movements, this genre pits a concertino against the tutti.
What is a concerto grosso?
Made up of harpsichord and a low-pitched string instrument, this forms the foundation of most Baroque compositions.
What is the Basso Continuo?
It was the forerunner of the symphony, with its use of many string instruments playing the same melodies.
What is the French Overture?
Known for his choral masterpiece "Messiah," this Baroque composer was a naturalized British subject.
Who is George Frideric Handel?
This Baroque composition, originally intended for intimate settings, consists of a collection of dance movements, including the allemande, courante, and sarabande.
What is a Suite?
Based on ancient Greek plays, this theatrical genre tells a story about mythology or nobility using music for both the spoken dialogue and the emotions of the characters.
What is Opera?
The main tune that keeps coming back in a concerto, played by the Tutti.
What is the ritornello?
Created in response to English audience reaction, it told biblical stories without scenery of costumes.
What is oratorio?
This English Baroque composer is often called the "Orpheus Britannicus" and is known for his compositions, including the opera "Dido and Aeneas."
Who is Henry Purcell?
What are the Brandenburg Concertos.
This seven-movement genre uses a Lutheran hymn-tune as its foundation and expands on text from the Gospel of the bible.
What is Church Cantata?
In a play, the actors would say these lines. In Baroque opera, they are sung without rhythm and with only the basso continuo as accompaniment.
Some of the names for its sections are allemande, sarabande, gigue, and minuet.
What is a dance suite?
This Italian Baroque composer and violin virtuoso is famous for his influence on violin technique and composition, particularly in the development of the concerto grosso.
Who is Arcangelo Corelli?
This English opera uses the story of the Queen of Carthage and her love for a man from Troy who leaves her.
What is "Dido and Aeneas"
What is Fugue?
The repetition of a musical idea at successively higher or lower degrees of the scale.
What is melodic sequence?
This composition was written to be sung by a soloist in a small room.
What is a chamber cantata?