Royal Entertainment
This famous orchestral work was written for a royal party floating down the River Thames.
What is Water Music?
DAILY DOUBLE: Unlike opera, this genre was intended to provide a moral alternative with religious subject matter.
What is an oratorio?
A collection of short dances, usually all in the same key, is called this.
What is a suite?
This Baroque composer was nicknamed "The Red Priest."
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This composer is buried in Westminster Abbey despite being born in Germany.
Who is George Frideric Handel?
The movement from Water Music heard in class is named after this lively English dance.
What is the Hornpipe?
This poetic text provides the words sung in an oratorio or opera.
What is a libretto?
DAILY DOUBLE: This musical form follows an A–B–A structure and literally means "from the beginning." (Vocal)
What is Da Capo form?
During his lifetime, Bach was better known for this musical skill on this instrument than for composing.
What is the organ?
This composer wrote over 500 concertos.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
The Ospedale della Pietà was a place for these kind of children. Vivaldi worked here.
What is an orphanage?
The famous aria from Handel's Messiah that is used to describe melismas
What is "Rejoice Greatly" ?
Most Baroque concertos follow this three-movement tempo pattern.
What is fast–slow–fast?
Bach fathered this many children.
What is 19? (Will accept 20)
This collection of violin concertos musically represents the changing seasons of the year.
What is The Four Seasons?
This famous choral movement from Messiah is traditionally performed with audiences standing.
What is the Hallelujah Chorus?
Unlike opera, Oratorios are performed without these two theatrical elements.
What are scenery and costumes?
Supporting the ensemble is this keyboard-and-bass accompaniment typical of the Baroque era.
What is basso continuo?
This instrument was Vivaldi's specialty.
What is the violin?
This genre features one or more soloists performing with an orchestra.
What is a concerto?
Letters representing Binary Form
What is A-B (Other AB combinations accepted.)
The music in the "Hallelujah Chorus" is primarily this texture.
What is homophonic?
This fast concluding dance of the suite originated in England.
What is the gigue?
Unlike early oratorios, Handel's English oratorios used librettos written by these type of artists.
What are poets?
Besides dances, Baroque suites were sometimes opened with this introductory movement.
What is an overture?