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Baroque History
Characteristics of Baroque Music
Performance Technique
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Considered the greatest composer of the Baroque Period.
Who was Johann Sebastian Bach?
100
A style of music used prominently in Bach's music.
What counterpoint or polyphony?
100
The best-known cantata Bach ever wrote according to some scholars.
What is Cantata No. 80, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott or Cantata No. 80, A Mighty Fortress is Our God?
100
This was an important ingredient in the drama of Baroque music.
What is CONTRAST as a dramatic element in Baroque Music?
100
Baroque music generally lacked in grace notes, turns, and trills.
What is ORNAMENTATION?
200
Italian composer known for writing piano and forte in his score.
Who is Gabrieli?
200
The loudness or softness performed in music.
What are dynamics?
200
The day for which Bach wrote the cantata.
What is Reformation Day?
200
One example of contrast in Baroque music.
What is loud and soft in baroque music?
200
Baroque music did not have articulation markings.
What is staccato, legato, and slurred notes?
300
The time period and dates that Bach lived through.
What was the Baroque Period (1685 - 1750)?
300
The three levels of softness used in music. Three levels of loudness used in music.
What is pianissimo, piano, and mezzo piano? What is mezzo forte, forte, and fortissimo?
300
The purpose of Reformation Day.
What is a schism - a division of people - a breaking away from the Catholic Church?
300
A type of music and singing used to tell a story from the Bible.
What are Oratorios?
300
To connect more than one note of different names without articulation.
What are slurred notes?
400
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What was Germany and the Lutheran church?
400
Grave, largo, adagio, andante, moderato, allegro, presto, and prestissimo describe this.
What were the descriptions used to describe the different movements of Baroque music in a multi-movement piece?
400
The day Reformation Day occurred.
What is All Hollow's Eve - Halloween ?
400
This is the reason that we celebrate 'Memorial Day'.
What is "to honor those Americans who gave up their lives for their country."?
400
To play notes detached, separated.
What is staccato?
500
He worked for various noblemen of the Baroque period.
Who was George Frederic Handle?
500
How fast or slow music is played.
What is tempo?
500
The Water Music was written for this King and played as he floated down this river?
Who was King George I and what was the Thames River?
500
A cross between a cantata and an opera. Religious like a cantata, tells a story like an opera, but without the acting and scenery.
What is an ORATORIO?
500
To play notes smoothly and concectedly.
What is legato?