Baroque Genres
Genre that is a soloist + orchestra.
What is a concerto?
Benedictine nun and canonized saint who contributed to music, literature, and the sciences.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
The official language of the Catholic Church.
What is Latin?
Augustinian friar responsible for publishing 95-theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
Opera emerged in this country.
What is Italy?
Complicated polyphonic, contrapuntal work that has a subject, counter-subject, and episodes. Made popular by J.S. Bach.
What is a fugue?
Who developed organum?
Who is Perotinus the Great?
What is plainchant?
The Age of Cathedrals began in this European city, thus prompting the spread of polyphonic music.
What is Paris?
What are secco and accompagnato?
Opera inspired by the Aeneid.
What is Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas?
Artist known by his first name who is the most influential medieval composer.
Who is Josquin?
Saved Church music after the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Palestrina?
Year of the Protestant Reformation.
1517.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
A collection of movements that are meant for accompanying dance.
What is a Baroque Suite?
First composer to set a complete setting of the Mass Ordinary.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
Name of the first complete setting of the Mass.
What is the Messe de Nostre Dame.
The philosophy that emerged during the Renaissance that encouraged autonomy of the self.
What is humanism?
Secular songs set to the vernacular.
What are madrigals?
Genre created to bring entertainment to audiences during Lent.
What is an oratorio?
The composer who was also a significant poet, whose works were comparable to Chaucer's.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
What is the one text of the Mass Ordinary that is not in Latin, but Greek?
Name of the Council that convened in response to the Protestant Reformation.
Two compositional styles of setting a text to melody.
What is melismatic and syllabic writing?