Baroque Genres
A hymn tune.
What is a Chorale?
The years of the Baroque period.
What is 1600-1750?
The two things that equaled clarity in music during the Baroque period.
What are order and organization?
The words in an opera.
What is libretto?
Dance inspired music.
What is a suite?
The two events that frame the Baroque period.
What are the invention of opera and the death of Bach?
The century when the term "orchestra" meant a place reserved for the senators in the Roman theater.
What is 16th century?
The number of acts in an opera.
What is 1-5?
Instrumental work for 1-8 instruments.
What is a sonata?
The two things valued above all else during the Baroque period.
What are order and organization?
The two string instruments that make up the string section of the Baroque orchestra.
What are violins and violas?
The main attraction in an opera.
What is an aria?
Very polyphonic, based on a single theme called a subject.
What is a fugue?
The model for symmetry during the Baroque period.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
What is genre?
The first opera whose music survived.
What is Euridice?
The instruments that make up the ripieno in a concerto grosso.
What are strings?
The six emotions used by painters during the Baroque period.
What are wonder, love, joy, hatred, desire, and sadness?
The three standard parts of the Baroque orchestra.
What are basso continuo, strings, and others?
The composer who wrote the first great opera.
Who is Monteverdi?