Name That Musical Period
This musical period features Gregorian chant, church modes, and instruments such as the psaltery and shawm.
Middle Ages
This is a genre of dramatic music that is based on a religious subject and uses combines narrative, dialogue, arias, recitatives, and instrumental music
Oratorio
This was Handel's most important innovation in his oratorios
Use of the chorus
This was the first opera, which was performed in 1598 and written by Peri and Rinuccini
Dafne
This Baroque composer's preludes served as etudes for performers to practice technique
J. S. Bach
This musical period features the use of basso continuo, early opera, and a shift from polyphonic to homophonic texture.
Baroque
This is a solo song in an opera that often expresses emotion
Aria
A gradual change from one key to another is something that Rameau recognized in the Baroque period
modulation
A successful Baroque opera used these types of songs of showcase the leading soprano's talents and preferences
arias
This madrigal, by English composer Thomas Weelkes, is one of the most famous Renaissance madrigals
As Vesta Was Descending
This musical period features monophonic texture and instruments such as the lyre and the aulos.
Antiquity
Section in an opera for solo voice and basso continuo that features dialogue in a speechlike manner
Simple recitative
The use of dance rhythms in Baroque music led to the use of this in musical scores
barlines
Monteverdi's opera in 1607 demonstrates the power of music when this character uses his singing to persuade the Underworld to release his wife
Orpheus (L'Orfeo)
This female composer (1098-1179) was famous for her prophecies as well as her music. Ordo virtutum is the earliest surviving music drama.
Hildegard of Bingen
This musical period features word/text painting, polyphonic texture, and instruments such as the lute, recorder, clavichord, and harpsichord.
Renaissance
This common Baroque practice features an instrumental bass line in which instruments such as lute fill in the harmony with chords
basso continuo
This restatement of a pattern on different pitch levels is a technique that Vivaldi liked to use
sequence
This type of music, which featured text/word painting, was an influence on the development of early Baroque opera
madrigal
This German Baroque composer created the English oratorio. His most famous is Messiah.
George Frederic Handel
This musical period lasted from 1600 - 1750
Baroque
This is an embellished, often improvised, passage usually occurring before the end of the piece or section
cadenza
This composer wrote the concept that harmonic movement is based on the progression of chord roots, regardless of the lowest sounding notes
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Roman opera featured a clear division between these two types of solo singing
arias and recitatives
This English Baroque composer wrote the musical drama Dido and Aeneas in 1688.
Henry Purcell