Opera
It was created to replace operas during sacred times in the Christian church year, such as lent.
What are oratorios?
With this invention, copies of scriptures and hymns became available to the masses.
What is the printing press (or Gutenberg Press)?
Hymns are sung in this language
What is Latin?
What is form?
This condition caused Beethoven to feel intense despair and social alienation.
What is deafness?
This type of solo singing features a metered accompaniment part, emotional lyrics, and a contoured melodic line.
What is an aria?
This composer devoted his career to the music of the Catholic Church, serving as music director at St. Peter's Cathedral and composing 450 sacred works.
Who is Giovanni Pieruigi da Palestrina?
This sacred genre is by definition monophonic, but scholars suspect that medieval performers sometimes added musical lines to the texture, likely drones.
What is chant?
The form of "The Virigin will aid those who most love her"
What is verse-refrain form?
Antonio Vivaldi was born in this country
What is Italy?
This compositional technique of singing multiple pitches on one syllable of text is a staple of many arias, contributing to it's virtuosic and impressive nature.
What are melismas?
This famous Renaissance work reflects the ideals of the Council of Trent.
What is "Missa Papae Marcelli"?
It originally referred to any instrumental music. Now it refers to a multi-movement work for one to two instruments with continuo.
What is a sonata?
As its name suggests, this form indicates a returning or a refrain played by the full orchestra.
What is ritornello?
Haydn had a nearly 30 year relationship working for this family
Who are the Esterhazys?
The texture of a recitative
What is homophonic?
"A Mighty Fortress is Our God" was written originally written in this language to promote the participation of the congregation.
What is German?
Many of these types of pieces utilized the text "fa la" to fill the gaps in the melody or to possibly cover risque or illicit connotations.
What are madrigals?
Compositional techniques such as augmentation, diminution, and inversion can often be found in this part of a fugue
What is the development?
After learning how to write opera, Handel moved to this country, where Italian opera was all the range and well received by the public (at first at least).
What is England?
The title character of this opera is a serial womanizer who eventually faces the consequences of his actions.
What is Don Giovanni?
As a result of the Protestant Reformation, congregations began singing these types songs, featuring a strophic form and conjunct melodies.
What are hymns?
The word for this important instrumental genre comes from the Latin and Italian root concertare, which has connotations of both competition and cooperation.
What is concerto?
The main difference between the exposition and this section of sonata form, is that the later stays in the home key.
What is the recapitulation?
This composition by J.S. Bach is a collection of 48 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys.
What is The Well-Tempered Clavier?