Period
The time span of the Baroque Period.
These terms describe the art style of this period.
What is Ornate and Decorative?
An element that can be added to music to make it sound fuller or more fancy, such as a trill.
What is Ornamentation?
This is a term used to describe someone that writes music.
What is a Composer?
The Baroque period started in this part of the world, just like the previous period.
What is Italy?
Craftsmen in Italy were best know for this art form.
What is Stone carving?
This instrument is made of one long tube of brass, and has no pistons or valves to change notes.
What is a Natural Horn?
This man was a Baroque artist and printmaker who lived from 1606-1669, and was best known for his use of realism in his paintings.
Who was Rembrandt?
The end of the Baroque period is based around the death of this significant composer.
Who was J.S. Bach?
An art style that involves pasting thin sheets of precious metal onto a surface to give a sense of elegance.
What is Gilding?
A musical form that is characterized by one voice presenting a melody, and another voice joining in later with that same melody with no variation.
What is a Canon?
This composer was one of the only female composers to publish music under her own name.
Who was Barbara Strozzi?
This musical piece was composed for a concert held on boats in the River Thames by George F. Handel
What is Water Music?
What is Chiaroscuro?
Similar to another, this musical form consists of one voice presenting a melody, with another joining in later, but this time with variation instead of the same melody.
What is a Fugue?
What is Dido and Aeneas?
Who was Queen Mary/Bloody Mary?
This artist was born before the Baroque period, and i considered one of the earliest adoptors of the Baroque style.
Who was Caravaggio?
This large bass instrument is related to the lute, and can have upwards of 24 strings.
What is the Theorbo?
The most famous organ piece composed by Bach, its name includes one of it's forms.
What is Toccata and Fugue?