Operas
This is the first known opera based on an ancient Greek drama.
What is Euridice?
This technique had a keyboard instrument playing a bass line with chords above. A melodic instrument doubles the bass line.
What is basso continuo
This type of Gregorian Chant has a soloist alternating with a smaller choir.
What is responsorial.
For over a 1000 years, this was the official music of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is the Gregorian Chant.
This is a philosophy that focuses on the value of people, as opposed to Gods and deities.
What is humanism.
The opera text is called this.
What is the libretto.
A performer that was outstanding and truly gifted during the Baroque time was called this term.
What is a virtuoso
This Era is known as the Age of Enlightenment.
What is the Baroque Era.
This style of chant is sung without any instruments.
What is a capella.
Congregational participation in worship in new churches to include singing and playing worship music was because of this movement.
What is Protestant Reformation
The members of the orchestra that accompanies the vocalists and dancers are called this.
What are the instrumentalists.
This sacred opera was popular during baroque times and mostly focused on stories from the Old Testament.
What is an oratorio.
In an opera, this is a solo that allows the vocalist to showcase their talents.
What is an aria
Gregorian chants is what type of texture?
What is monophony or monphonic.
In the 16th century this country became the cultural center of Europe.
What is Italy
The technique in which the singing matches the rhythm of the words or speech.
What is a recitative?
What is a Fugue
Monteverdi composed what is considered this first great opera.
What is Orfeo.
Most rhythms of the late middle ages were divided by this number, to represent the holy trinity.
What is three
What is sacred music
This opera that has a serious content and plot and often ends in tragedy.
What is an opera serio.
In a recitative, the soloist is accompanied by a single chordal instrument making the it this texture.
What is homophonic.
This polyphonic sacred choral work is made up of five sections.
What is a mass
These were poet-composers active in noble courts and villages providing entertainment and news from surrounding villages.
What are troubadours.
This secular style of music was for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
What is a madrigal.