Opera Terms
Baroque Composers
Baroque Instrumental Music
Baroque Keyboard Music
Baroque Vocal Music
100
The orchestral introduction heard at the beginning of an opera.
What is an overture?
100
The German composer who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos.
Who is J. S. Bach
100
This instrumental composition is based on varied dance styles that are all played in the same key.
What is a Baroque Suite?
100
The German composer that is mainly known for his keyboard music.
Who is J. S. Bach?
100
A multi-movement work with arias and recititatives, based on Greek mythology or Ancient History.
What is Opera?
200
The lyrical song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment.
What is an aria?
200
The Italian composer that wrote the Four Seasons.
Who is Vivaldi?
200
This instrumental composition is based on a "tutti" large group and a "concertino" small group of soloist.
What is Concerto Grosso
200
The main theme of a fugue.
What is the subject?
200
This vocal composition contains the chorale hymn tune for the congregational to participate in.
What is a Cantata?
300
The bass line with figures or numerals creating harmony performed by two instrumentalist.
What is basso continuo?
300
The German composer that wrote the Messiah in England.
Who is George Fredrick Handel?
300
This instrumental composition features a virtuoso soloist accompanied by an orchestra.
What is Solo Concerto
300
This keyboard instument has its strings pucked by quills.
What is a harpsichord?
300
This Biblical based composition does not have acting, scenery, or costumes.
What is an Oratorio?
400
The male singer who was castrated during boyhood to preserve the soprano or alto vocal register.
What is a castrato?
400
The earliest known opera composer of the Baroque period.
Who is Monteverdi?
400
Handel's "Royal Water Music" composed for King George's party on the Thames River is an example of this type of instrumental composition.
What is a Baroque Suite?
400
In a fugue, the contrapuntal device makes the theme sound as though it is slower or stretched out.
What is augmentation?
400
Handel's Messiah is an example of this type of Baroque compositions.
What is an Oratorio?
500
The narritive or vocal solo inflections of text.
What is recitative?
500
This English composer's opera "Dido and Aeneas" was created for a girl's school production.
Who is Henry Purcell?
500
Vivaldi's "Spring", a type of program music from the "Four Seasons".
What is a Solo Concerto?
500
J.S. Bach wrote two collections of preludes and fugues.
What is The Well-Tempered Clavier?
500
The German sacred cantata was writen for this purpose.
What is the Lutheran Church service.
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