Baroque Charecterisitcs
True or False: Baroque Music is not complicated
False
The most important new genre of the Baroque Era?
What is Opera
Which composer wrote the "Four Seasons"
Who is Antonio Vivaldi
What Baroque keyboard instrument produced sound by pressurized air being driven through pipes?
What is the Pipe Organ
The Musical period that came before the Baroque Period
What is The Medieval & Renaissance Period
True or False: Baroque Music featured lots of contrast in its music
True
This form primarily uses sacred text and is a large scale musical composition for instruments and voices?
What is Oratorio
This Baroque Composer's most famous work is an Oratorio titled Messiah
Who is George Frederich Handel
This Baroque Instruments resembles the modern day cello or violin
What is the Viola
The Musical Period coming after the Baroque Era
What is The Classical Period
True or False: one characteristic of Baroque music is the use of a continued bass line
True
What form is characterized by repeated sections of similar material between different parts?
Fugue
This composer wrote primarily for organ and is considered one of the best composers of all time
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach
This Baroque Instrument did not have valves and was elongated vs its shape today
What is Trumpet
The start of the Baroque Period
What is 1600
A baroque characteristic involving adding something to the music in order to decorate it
What is Ornamentation
Name the three parts of an opera
Instrumental Overtures, Solo Arias, and Recitatives
This composer is an the greatest of English composers and developed basso ostinato or ground bass.
Who is Henry Purcell
The difference between a modern day violin and a Baroque violin
Baroque violin did not have a chin rest and the bow was curved rather than straight
The end date of the Baroque Period
What is 1750
A Baroque Characteristic defined as a piece that sounds complete and independent, but is part of a larger composition
What is a movement
Instrumental work associated with a story, event or idea
What is program music
This composer was an opera house owner and worked for King George I
Who is George Frederic Handel
What is the difference between a Clavichord and Harpsicord?
The Clavichord is a smaller version of a Harpsichord. They both produce sound by plucking the strings
The Baroque period of Music was heavily influenced by this.
What is the Catholic Church