Composers
This composer wrote the Messiah
Who is Handel
This instrumental genre features a solo instrument going back and forth with an orchestra
What is a concerto?
This is a tuneful, metered solo for voice in opera (ABA form)
What is an Aria
This is a large scale work for chorus set to biblical text
What is Oratorio
When was the Baroque era?
What is 1600-1750
This composer was known for his organ fugues
Who is J.S. Bach
This music is a series of dances in the same key
What is a suite
This is the text of an opera
What is the Libretto
This is a bass characteristic of Baroque music
What is Basso Continuo
This is the orchestral music played before the curtain rises in opera
What is the Overture
This Italian composer wrote the first opera
Who is Monteverdi
This is an unstaged, sacred major work with solos, chorus, and orchestra
What is an oratorio
This is a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech in opera (accompanied only by basso continuo)
What is Recitative
This was the main keyboard in Baroque music
What is the harpsichord
Two music giants of the Baroque Period
Who are Handel and Bach
This composer was a expert violinist
Who is Vivaldi
This music has a subject, answer and episodes
What is a Fugue
This is the birth place of opera
What is Italy
a smaller-scale multi-movement work used in Protestant church services (voice, chamber orchestra)
What is a cantata
This is a 4-movement work, often for a solo instrument (or with basso continuo)
What is a sonata
This composers nickname was "The Red Priest"
Who is Vivaldi
This music is a play set to music and sung to orchestral accompaniment
What is Opera
This was the first opera
What is L' Orfeo (1607)
This is the main theme of a Fugue
What is Subject
This type of music is for a smaller room and typically has one instrument per part
What is chamber music?