Composers
This composer is often referred to as the most important composer in all of classical music.
Who is Bach?
Dances were often compiled into pieces called this.
What are suites?
The final dance in a dance suite is often associated with Ireland and England, but is spelled using a French spelling.
What is a Gigue?
These are the years the Baroque occurs.
What is 1600-1750?
What is 173 years?
This composer was famous for writing 555 sonatas for harpsichord.
Who is Domenico Scarlatti?
Scarlatti's sonatas are catalogued by these kinds of numbers.
What are K numbers?
The slowest dance in a dance suite hails from Spain, and usually very expressive.
What is a Sarabande?
This is the name used to describe decorations on notes. Can also be found on Christmas trees.
What is ornamentation? (Ornaments)
Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti were all born in this year.
What is 1685?
This composer was more famous for opera and oratorios, most famously writing the Hallelujah Chorus in Messiah.
Handel's Air and Variations from his suite no. 5 is subtitled this.
What is the Harmonious Blacksmith?
This dance is not always in a dance suite, but it is in 3, and uses a specific step pattern on beats 2 and 6 of a two measure phrase.
What is a Minuet?
This term means many melodies happening simultaneously.
What is Polyphony? (polyphonic)
This type of ornamentation means to play the written note, go to the upper neighbor note, and back down to the original note very quickly one time.
What is a mordent?
Bach's full name is this.
What is Johann Sebastian Bach?
Bach's dance suites are organized into certain kinds of suites. Name one of them.
What are English suites, French suites, or Partitas?
The first dance of a dance suite is from Germany, and is characterized by a moderate tempo with a one note pick up.
What is Allemande?
This country is most famous for it's abundance of ornamentation in it's keyboard works.
What is France?
Handel's Suite no. 5 only uses these dances.
What is the Allemande and Courante?
This composer was referred to as "Le Grand," meaning the great.
Who is Francois Couperin?
Bach's most important keyboard work is called this, and was monumental because it used all 24 major and minor keys.
What is the Well-Tempered Clavier?
This dance is fast, in 3, and is from France. It is usually the second dance.
What is a Courante?
This subgenre in the Baroque was influential as the noble class paid composers to write music for their parties.
What is Dance Music?
Name one of J.S. Bach's children.
Who is Wilhelm Friedman, C.P.E, J.C. Bach?