A group of intellectuals and musicians that created the modern opera.
Who are the Florentine Camerata?
100
Bach wrote these 2 books for keyboard that had 24 preludes and fugues in each major and minor keys.
What is the Well Tempered Clavier?
100
A biblical story set to music.
What is a historia?
100
Invented in 1700 by Bartolomeo Cristofori produced sound by a hammers striking strings and then drop away allowing each string to reverberate as long as the key is held down.
What is the piano?
100
The first opera with a paying general public was Andromeda by Manelli in this city.
What is Venice, Italy?
200
He wrote the first major opera L'Orfeo which premiered in Mantua, Italy in 1607.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
200
Simple and more song-like melodies with a. clear distinction between soloist and accompaniment.
What is Galant style?
200
This English collaborative musical genre that mixed the style of opera with French Ballet.
What are Masques?
200
A typical string quartet consists of these for instruments.
What are 2 violins, viola, and cello?
200
Telemann wrote 12 chamber pieces for four quartets for flute, violin, cello and continuo. We was German, but he visited this city from 1737-38 and named his famous quartets after it.
What is Paris?
300
The first English Opera of any significance was Dido and Aeneas. Written by this composer.
Who is Henry Purcell?
300
This child prodigy wrote his first symphony at age 5.
Who is Mozart?
300
Light mythological plays in a pastoral setting that alternated between singing and spoken dialogue in the Spanish Baroque.
What are Zarzuelas?
300
A single reed instrument invented around 1710, and by the 1780s it was a standard woodwind instrument.
What is the clarinet?
300
This public rehearsal in this city of Handel's Royal Fireworks stopped traffic for 3 hours while 12,000 people were drawn to the rehearsal.
What is London?
400
A German virtuosic church organist and keyboard player, skilled violinist, and composer of every genre but Opera. He also wrote the Well-Tempered Clavier.
Who is J.S. Bach?
400
Handel's famous oratorio.
What is the Messiah?
400
Musical setting of a text based on religious or ethical subject consisting of narrative, dramatic and contemplative elements. Usually with a chorus and no scenery.
What is oratorio?
400
Most common chamber instruments in the baroque era. 2 answers
What are harp and guitar?
400
Bach worked as a Kapellmeister (music director) from 1723 until his death in 1750 at the St. Thomas Church in this German City.
What is Leipzig?
500
The father of the Symphony.
Who is Joseph Haydn?
500
A musical composition for a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra.
What is a concerto?
500
An accompanied song for a solo voice and was the main song type of operas.
What is an aria?
500
Piano took over being the most commonly used keyboard instrument over this Baroque keyboard instrument.
What is the harpsichord?
500
This child prodigy was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria.