Name That Musical Period
This musical period features Gregorian chant, church modes, and instruments such as the psaltery and shawm
What is the Middle Ages?
This is a genre of dramatic music that is based on a religious subject and combines narrative, dialogue, arias, recitatives, and instrumental music
What is Oratorio?
This was Handel's most important innovation in his oratorios
What is the use of the chorus?
This was the first opera, which was performed in 1598, written by Peri and Rinuccini
What is Dafne?
This Baroque composer's preludes served as etudes for performers to practice technique, and he wrote in every genre except opera
Who is J. S. Bach?
This musical period features the use of basso continuo, early opera, and a shift from polyphonic to homophonic texture
What is the Baroque period?
This is a solo song in an opera that often expresses emotion
What is Aria?
A gradual change from one key to another is something that Rameau recognized in the Baroque period
What is modulation?
A successful Baroque opera used these types of songs of showcase the leading soprano's talents and preferences
What are arias?
This composer invented the English oratorio - his most famous one was called Messiah
Who is G.F. Handel?
This musical period features monophonic texture and instruments such as the lyre and the aulos
What is Antiquity?
Section in an opera for solo voice and basso continuo that features dialogue in a speechlike manner
What is Simple recitative?
The use of dance rhythms in Baroque music led to the use of this in musical scores
What is 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
Who is Orpheus?
(in L'Orfeo)
This instrument had more than one player per part in the 1600s, which led to our modern orchestra arrangement
What is violin?
This musical period features word painting, polyphonic texture, and instruments such as the lute, recorder, clavichord, and harpsichord
What is the Renaissance?
This Baroque accompaniment technique used instruments such as lute, harpsichord, and theorbo to fill in the harmony with chords
What is basso continuo?
This restatement of a pattern on different pitch levels is a technique that Vivaldi liked to use
What is sequence?
This type of music, which featured word painting, was an influence on the development of early Baroque opera
What is madrigal?
In late 17th-century opera, this type of person drew audiences and determined success
Who is the performer? (singers/musicians)
This musical period lasted from 1600 - 1750
What is the Baroque period?
This is an embellished, often improvised, passage usually occurring before the end of the piece or section
What is cadenza?
This composer developed the idea of fundamental bass - you can thank him for music theory
Who is Jean-Philippe Rameau?
Roman opera featured a clearer division between these two types of singing
What are arias and recitatives?
This English Baroque composer wrote the opera Dido and Aeneas in 1688.
Who is Henry Purcell?