Composers
This event in J.S. Bach’s life marked the end of the Baroque period.
What is his death?
This genre involves a small group of featured players accompanied by an orchestra.
What is a Concerto Grosso?
Composers in the Baroque Period were free to write religious music in their local languages and were no longer restricted to this language.
What is Latin?
In the Baroque period, Christianity was divided into two main sects: the Catholics, and this group, founded by Martin Luther.
What/who are the Protestants?
This oratorio by Handel features the famous “Hallelujah Chorus.”
What is the Messiah?
This composer had all the cards stacked against him- his father wanted him to be a lawyer instead of a musician, and he eventually went blind, but he continued to write music.
Who is Handel?
This was the most important form of chamber music during the 18th century, consisting of an ensemble of 2 violins, 1 viola, and 1 cello.
What is a string quartet?
The 1700s brought the first versions of this woodwind instrument.
What is the clarinet?
This physicist formulated the theory of gravity during the Baroque period.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This suite by Handel is a collection of pieces meant to be performed along the Thames River and includes the movement “Hornpipe.”
What is Water Music?
This composer is well-known for his talent at writing fugues, including an organ piece titled “The Art of the Fugue.”
Who is J.S. Bach?
In a Baroque fugue, the first voice or instrument introduces a short melody, called a subject, and other parts join in with their version of the melody, called this name.
What is the answer?
This musical texture features one primary melodic line which is harmonized by lower voices/instruments.
What is homophonic/homophony?
This scientific idea states that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun.
The set of 6 concerto grossos was written by J.S. Bach during his time in Brandenburg, Germany.
What are the Brandenburg Concertos?
This composer is known for his philanthropic acts, including teaching violin to young orphans.
Who is Vivaldi?
This genre is a collection of instrumental pieces, usually dance tunes, designed to be played one after the other.
What is a suite?
The three main institutions for which Baroque composers wrote music included the Church, Nobility, and this third institution, which could be attended by people of all social classes.
What are opera houses?
This English physician explained the circulation of blood in the body.
Who is William Harvey?
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons features this keyboard instrument playing the basso continuo part.
What is the harpsichord?
Vivaldi’s set of violin concertos that depicts spring, summer, autumn, and fall goes by this Italian title.
What is Le Quattro Stagioni?
When a Baroque sonata features a solo instrument with basso continuo, it is called a solo sonata. When it features two solo instruments and a basso continuo, it is called by this name.
What is a trio sonata?
Baroque violins, violas, cellos, and double basses evolved from this prototypical Renaissance instrument.
What is the viol?
This king proclaimed “I am the state,” signifying that all life and culture should serve the ruler. (you must give his full title, including the country he ruled)
Who is King Louis the XIV of France?
J.S. Bach’s work called “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” belongs to this Baroque genre, characterized by its use of both a chorus and an orchestral accompaniment, its unstaged setting, and its sacred OR secular themes.
What is a cantata?