Vocab
This is the term for heightened emotions, often featured in Baroque compositions.
What is affections?
What is a fugue?
In addition to Bach, this is our other "defining" composer of the Baroque era.
Who is George Frideric Handel?
This genre was not usually religiously linked.
What is opera?
This fruit is unique because the seeds are on the outside.
What is a strawberry?
This is another word for the the section often played by the "tutti" in Baroque compositions, which alternates with soloists.
What is ritornello?
The three movements of a concerto grosso are usually this.
This composer was an organ virtuoso in addition to composing almost every genre during the Baroque era.
Who is Bach?
This genre was usually based directly on stories from the Bible.
What is an oratorio?
This character was Disney's first animated princess.
Who is Snow White?
This is a style of singing in opera that mimics the rhythm and pitch fluctuations of speech.
What is recitative?
This is a series of dance-inspired Baroque movements written in the same key with differing tempos, meters, and characters.
What is a suite?
Monteverdi spent most of his career working at this place.
St. Mark's in Venice, Italy
This genre was multiple movements and was intended for church services.
What is a cantata?
This is the only letter not used in the name of a US state.
What is Q?
This was a specific type of Aria, written in ABA form.
What is a Da Capo aria?
This is a hymn sung to a German text.
What is a chorale?
Elizabeth de la Guerre was a skilled performer at this instrument, eventually becoming a teacher of other performers.
What is the harpsichord?
What is a well-known example of an oratorio?
What is Handel's Messiah?
This planet has the most moons in our solar system.
What is Saturn?
This was a group of nobles, poets, and composers who began to meet regularly in Florence around 1575 and whose musical discussions prepared the way for the beginning of opera.
What is the Camerata?
These are the instruments featured in a trio sonata.
What are four instruments: two playing higher melodic lines and two playing the basso continuo?
This composer was known for her vocal music, including eight volumes featuring ariettas, arias, and cantatas.
Who is Barbara Strozzi?
This is the primary difference between an opera and an oratorio.
What is the staging, scenery, and acting within the opera?
Bubble wrap was originally created for this purpose.
What is wall paper?