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Background
Harmony and Tonality
Instrumentation
Melody
Features of Baroque Music
100
libretto
What is the text or words of a musical work named?
100
A major
What is the key?
100
timpani
What is the only percussion instrument in the extract?
100
4
What is the number of melodic ideas the piece is based on?
100
affection
What is the name of the 'mood' in the piece?
200
Aria
What is a solo vocal piece with instrumental accompaniment?
200
E Major
What is the second key in the piece
200
soprano
What is the highest vocal type used in the song?
200
melismatic
What is the name for giving more than one note to a syllable?
200
diatonic
What is the name for chords in the key or family?
300
Germany
What is the country of Handels birth?
300
Tonic
What type of pedal appears in the piece?
300
woodwind
What is the family of instruments not standard in the baroque era?
300
minim
What is the note value that is repeated to give conviction in idea 4?
300
Basso continuo
What is a repeating bass line called?
400
London
What city did Handel take leave in?
400
B major
What is the third key in the piece?
400
Harpsichord
What is the piano instrument popular in the baroque period?
400
Major
What is the type of scale the melody is in?
400
terraced
What is the name for dynamics that contrast on two levels?
500
1759
What is the year of his death?
500
plagal
What is a cadence that moves from chord 4 to 1?
500
Organ
What is the large piano like instrument used in churches?
500
3
What is the amount of beats rested before the final, grand cadence?
500
Modes
What is the name given to scales used before the invention of major and minor?