Become Enlightened
reason, nature, and progress
What are the themes of the Enlightenment?
The composer of the Messiah.
Georg Frideric Handel
This gross disease caused the composer to meet his demise when he refused to give up his "dancer's leg."
What is gangrene?
Purcell was considered apart of the birth of this type of music.
What is British Music?
This instrument is shaped like a clavichord.
What is a square piano?
A love of learning
What become popular during the Enlightenment period?
1. Blood
2. Phlegm
3. Yellow Bile
4. Black Bile
What are the Four Humors?
Jean-Baptiste was the first to put this on stage.
What is a female dancer?
An opera based on an epic poem about the Queen of Carthage and her man.
What is Dido and Aeneas?
There are 2 of these in Haydn's casket.
What are heads?
The first encyclopedia containing all men's knowledge in the Enlightenment period.
What is the Encyclopédie?
Handel dueled with this man and almost lost his life-- if not for a button on his jacket.
Who is Johann Mattheson?
The most popular dance of the 18th century.
What is the minuet?
A religious sort of opera without sets, costumes or props.
What is an oratorio?
Haydn was a court musician for this royal family.
What is the Esterhazy family?
This revolution during the Enlightenment led to the creation of the United States in 1776.
What is the American Revolution?
Handel was the musical director of this Academy.
What is the Royal Academy of Music?
The signature of Allemande dancing.
A musical technique that uses musicality to reflect the text of the piece.
What is word painting?
When Haydn was six, he went to live with this family relative, where he learned violin and keyboard.
Who is Johann Frankh?
Movement about promoting the welfare of mankind.
What is Humanitarianism?
What date did Handel write on his score of his final oratorio?
What is Giovanni Batista Lulli?
A short theme in the bass that repeats with varying music on top.
What is ground bass?
This medicinal science was the cause for digging up Haydn's skull from his casket to examine.
What is phrenology?