He wrote Canon in D Major, which uses a repeating bass line, or basso ostinato.
Who is Johann Pachelbel?
100
He wrote more than 650 compositions, which display perfect formal control only matched by the works of J S Bach.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
100
A dramatic musical form that involves an exposition, development and recapitulation. The only form invented in the classical era.
What is Sonata-Allegro form?
100
This genre was the single most important genre to emerge in the Baroque era.
What is opera?
100
This opera by Claudio Monteverdi was the first important opera in the history of Western music.
What is "Orfeo"?
200
He wrote the opera Dido and Aeneas, and has been called the greatest of all English composers.
Who is Henry Purcell?
200
This social class began to rise during the classical era.
What is the Middle Class?
200
This is a three-part musical form in which the third section is a repeat of the first: ABA
What is Ternary form?
200
A vocal genre ( as opposed to instrumental) during the Baroque era.
What is the Cantata?
200
This instrument dominated the sound of the Baroque orchestra and generally led to the rising popularity of instrumental music.
What is the violin?
300
He wrote the oratorio, "The Messiah", and was commissioned to write "Water Music" for the rich and powerful members of society.
Who is George F. Handel?
300
This was the original name for the piano.
What is the pianoforte?
300
The form in a Baroque concerto grosso in which all or part of the main theme returns again and again, played by the full orchestra.
What is Ritornello form?
300
An instrumental genre as opposed to something sung; later a multi-movement work for solo instrument with keyboard accompaniment.
What is a Sonata?
300
The Baroque orchestra consisted of about this many players.
What is 20?
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 Johann Sebastian Bach?
400
This type of opera began to become popular during the Enlightenment.
What is "comic opera"?
400
This is a multimovement sacred vocal work including arias and rectitatives performed by vocal soloists, a chorus and a small accompanying orchestra.Bach's "Awake, a Voice is Calling" belongs to this genre.
What is the Church Cantata?
400
A composition for three, four, or five parts (lines of music); it begins with a presentation of a subject in imitation in each part and continues with modulating passages.
What is a fugue?
400
Handel's "Water Music" belongs to this genre.
What is the dance suite?
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 Antonio Vivaldi?
500
He was was employed by the Esterhazy family near Vienna.
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
500
A small ensemble of a cello and harpsichord which provides a chordal foundation for the melody, mostly in Baroque music.
What is basso continuo?
500
This is a large-scale genre of scared music involving an overture, aria, recitatives, and choruses, but sung, without costumes.
What is an Oratorio?
500
The aesthetic theory that held that different musical moods could be used to influence the emotions, of the listener.