Elements
Any succession of notes
What is melody?
A stage play set to music, a spectacle that combines scenery, action, literary drama, and continuous or almost continuous music.
What is Opera?
A collection of dances
What is a suite?
Baroque composed who composed the Messiah
Who is G.F. Handel?
Keyboard instrument invented during the Baroque era
What is the piano?
The time element in music?
What is rhythm?
A sacred vocal genre of the Middle Ages having a Latin text, sung a cappella, in monophonic texture, by nuns and monks.
What is Gregorian chant, or plainchant, or chant?
A work with a title that indicates a fundamentally improvised conception
What is Fantasia, Fantasy, or Toccata?
She was a High Middle Ages composer who also founded a nuns abbey
Who is Hildegard of Bingen?
The "King of Instruments"
What is the organ?
A commonly used French word for 'tone color'
What is timbre?
A secular vocal genre of the Renaissance composed for a cappella choir, with a text usually about love.
What is a Madrigal?
Features a single soloist with orchestra
What is a Solo Concerto?
An Baroque Italian composer/violinist who was nicknamed the Red Priest
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
Baroque keyboard instrument used for the basso continuo
What is the harpsichord?
On one hand it refers to the Tonal System of Western music. On the other hand it refers to two or more tones sounding together.
What is harmony?
The "speech-song" developed by Late Renaissance/early Baroque composers which tried to emulate the ancient Greek way of singing their tragedies
What is recitative?
A Baroque instrumental genre that featuring soloists (concertino) pitted 'against' an orchestra (ripieno, or tutti)
What is Concerto Grosso?
Be was the foremost French composer and post of the Ars Nova
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
String instrument that often is used for the bass in a basso continuo
What is a cello?
A synonym for 'polyphony'
What is counterpoint
A lengthy work from the Baroque, for chorus, orchestra, and soloists, having as its libretto bible stories or a biblical theme; not, however, meant for a church service.
What is an Oratorio?
Variation form in which the bass voice performs the theme
What is passacaglia?
An English composer who wrote a material in praise of Queen Elizabeth I
Who is Thomas Weelkes?
A large ensemble comprised of strings, winds, and percussion
What is an orchestra?