Genres
This genre is based on Biblical story and is dramatic, without staging or costumes
What is an oratorio
Written in 24 days and ending with a standing ovation for the final song, this famous Handel oratorio.
What is the Messiah?
The Overture, or beginning piece in an opera, features which musicians?
What is the orchestra?
This new development allowed for specific tuning in intervals
What is equal temperament?
These characteristics define the style of music and art in Baroque music
What are elaborate decoration, extravagance, gaudy, highly embellished, daring, intense?
This collection of pieces in contrasting moods was influenced from many different cultures for public entertainment
What is a Baroque Dance Suite
Sleepers Awake (Wachet Auf) is the cantata based on which Biblical parable?
What is Matthew 25, Wise/Foolish Virgins, etc?
The recitative sections indicate this technique
What is speak-singing?
Exposition, Subject, and Countersubject are used in this episodic work that Bach brought to popularity.
What is a fugue?
Countertenor, Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, this voice part, Baritone, and Bass complete the opera voicings.
What is tenor?
What is a cantata?
The musical setting of Mary's Song Of Praise is known as what?
What is the Magnificat?
This emotional solo usually receives an ovation mid-show.
What is an aria?
Finished with the sloppiness of the "lining out" process, American singing schools started this type of notation.
What is shape-note singing?
Cozzolani was a music director at the St. Radegonda convent in this Italian city.
What is Milano?
Characterized by fast-slow-fast movements, and each movement has a solo section called a cadenza
What is a concerto?
What are the seasons?
The libretto is this part of an opera.
What is the text or the script?
The idea of using chord Roman numerals was developed so keyboard players could better improvise in this accompaniment style.
What is figured bass?
This term was used to describe highly skilled solo performers.
What is virtuoso/virtuosity?
The complicated polyphonic work that is based on the idea of imitation (Bach wrote these)
David's Lamentation was based on this specific grief.
The death of his son Absalom.
Dido and Aeneas ended in this way.
What is tragic suicide after the loss of lover?
The significant bodily alterations were provided to keep these men singing high notes in Baroque opera.
What are castrati?
"The end of all good music is to...."
what is "affect the soul?"