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Style
100
the "Red Priest"
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
100
1600-1750
When is the Baroque?
100
The Hallelujah Chorus is part of this oratorio by Handel.
What is "The Messiah"?
100
A texture having two or more melodic lines.
What is polyphony?
100
this style fills space with action and movement
What is the Baroque style?
200
a German Lutheran composer whose works have had a great influence in Western music
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
200
bizarre, flamboyant, elaborately ornamented
What is the meaning of "baroque"?
200
a set of violin concertos that depicts sounds and events associated with nature
What are "The Four Seasons"?
200
a drama sung to orchestral accompaniment
What is opera?
200
the tonal basis of music and compositions from the late Baroque on
What are major and minor scales?
300
German composer who ended up in London where he wrote many of his most famous works
Who is George Frideric Handel?
300
these people were an integral part of baroque society
What are composers?
300
two names of famous orchestral suites by George Frideric Handel
What are "Water Music" and "Music for the Royal Fireworks"?
300
Sudden alternations between loud and soft.
What are terraced dynamics?
300
the period when instrumental music became as important as vocal music
What is the Late Baroque?
400
One of the greatest English compsosers. He was also the organist at Westminster Abbey.
Who is Henry Purcell?
400
aristocratic courts, churches, opera houses, and municipalities
What are patrons (people who commissioned works)?
400
a composition by J. S. Bach demonstrating equal temperament on the harpsichord
What is "The Well-Tempered Clavier"?
400
an accompaniment made up of a bass part and numbers that specify the chords to be played above it
What is basso continuo (figured bass)?
400
a new musical genre that began in Italy and spread throughout Europe during the Baroque
What is opera?
500
this composer was an influential advocate of the equal temperament system of tuning
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
500
A palace that exhibits the Baroque style of painting, sculpture and architecture.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
500
L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi
What is the first great opera?
500
Successive repetition of a musical idea at higher or lower pitch levels.
What are melodic sequences?
500
this type of harmony and its progression become increasingly more important to a composition during the Baroque
What is a chord?