Show:
Baroque composers
Forms and Terms
Favorite Facts
More Baroque Composers
100
He wrote Canon in D Major, which uses a repeating bass line or basso continuo
Who is Pachelbel?
100
This genre was the single most important genre to emerge in the Baroque era.
What is opera?
100
This instrument is most closely related with the genre of the sonata.
What is the piano?
100

This composer from Venice was a prolific songwriter and vocalist.  

Barbara Strozzi

200
He wrote the opera Dido and Aeneas, and has been called the greatest of all English composers.
Who is Purcell?
200

This style of music was mastered by Bach.  It is made by using imatative counterpoint- one part starts the theme, and that continues throughout the piece in all the other parts. 

What is Fugue

200

This object was fashionable for men to wear during the baroque era, in fact it was rumored that Handel would not go anywhere without his.

What is a wig?

200

This woman was hired by the royal Medici family as a music teacher, and also was the first woman to compose an opera. 

Francesca Caccini

300
He wrote the oratorio, "The Messiah", and was commissioned to write "Water Music" for the rich and powerful members of society.
Who is Handel?
300

This is a sacred work in which everything is sung.

What is Oratorio

300
This instrument is the precursor to piano and was what instrument played many of the keyboard Sonatas of Scarlatti and other Baroque Composers.

What is harpsicord?

300

He is considered the founder of French Opera, and was a dancer who was good friends with the King Louis XIV. 

Jean Baptiste-Lully

400
He was the father of 20 children, and was the most renowned organ virtuoso in Germany. He wrote "the organ fugue in G minor".
Who is Bach?
400

This word describes a type or class of music.

What is Genre?

400
The Baroque orchestra consisted of about this many players
What is 20?
400

This Italian composer wrote over 550 Keyboard Sonatas.  

Domenico Scarlatti

500
He was born and raised in Venice, was also an ordained priest as well as a virtuoso violinist. He wrote many concertos for the all-female orchestra of an orphanage.
Who is Vivaldi?
500
This instrument dominated the sound of the Baroque orchestra and generally led to the rising popularity of instrumental music.
What is the violin?
500
True or false: The inventors of early opera thought they were reviving ancient Greek drama
What is True?
500

This was both Vivaldi and Handel's violin teacher. 

Arcangelo Corelli