Handel oratorios were written for these audiences.
What are Middle Class English Protestants?
100
The main figure associated with French opera.
Who is J.B. Lully?
100
This is the most common form of aria found in the Baroque Italian opera.
What is a Da Capo Aria?
100
The final movement of a Bach cantata ends with this type of piece
What is a chorale?
100
The first public opera house opened in this city.
What is Venice?
200
The name for the narrator in an oratorio.
What is a testo or historicus?
200
This type of recitatif has a lot of meter changes and a sustained bass.
What is simple recitatif?
200
This type of recitative utilizes more of the orchestra than just the basso continuo.
What is accompagnato recitative?
200
The number of movements that typically are found in a Bach cantata.
What is 5-8?
200
This term refers to both instrumental and vocal music joining together in independent parts.
What is concertato?
300
The type of oratorios that are performed in the vernacular language (Italian usually)
What is oratorio volgare?
300
The orchestration of a French Baroque opera generally has this many instrumental lines.
What is five?
300
This voice type dominated Italian opera and were physically altered men that played either the male or female leads in opera.
What are castrati?
300
The text Bach used for his sacred cantatas generally came from this source.
What are the Gospels (or New Testament)?
300
This genre preceded English opera but was significant in its use of choral music.
What is a masque?
400
Where the libretti originate in most of Handel's oratorios.
What is the Old Testament or Apocryphal books?
400
the type of recitatif that is more lyrical that interrupts the other type of recitatif.
What is mesure?
400
This is the literal translation of the libretto, or text of an opera
What is "little book?"
400
The denomination specifically associated with Bach cantatas
What is Lutheran?
400
This is a repeating, or stubborn, bass line.
What is a basso ostinato (or ground bass)?
500
Where early oratorios were performed (pre-Handel, in Italy)
What is an oratory? (Prayer hall)
500
The type of piece that typically opens a French opera in binary form. The A section contains dotted rhythms, is majestic, and slow; the B section is fast and polyphonic.
What is a French o(u)verture?
500
The date of Monteverdi's Orfeo.
What is 1607
500
The manner in which Bach's works are catalogued.
What are BWV#s (Bach Werke Verzeichnis/Bach Work Index)
500
This was the group that is credited with beginning of opera.