Midterm Review!

The earliest chant manuscripts used ___________.

The pope was said to have written the bulk of the standard plainchants.

Who was known as the Red Priest?

Opera was the result of someone discovering Hildegard's morality plays.

The castrati were a natural phenomenon.

Repetition, variation, and contrast create_________.

In Baroque music, artists tried to express emotion- or _____.

This type of chant involves a chorus responding to a solo singer.

Masses are still only sung in Latin.

Churches in the Baroque Era were thrifty.

Bach's Little Fugue is a cantata.

Multiple notes per syllable is known as

Who wrote "Tu se' morta" from Orpheus.

Program music involves a poem with a singer and orchestra.

The genre of the ____________ involves an instrumental soloist with orchestra.

Renaissance means "rebirth".

Handel wrote Fugue in G minor.

A staged drama sung from beginning to end is an____________.

Guillame de Machaut was famous for being a __________.

What are the years of the "Baroque" era?

Josquin's "The Cricket" uses a 3-part form known as ________ form.

The type of opera singing that is between speaking and singing is

The greatest 17th century English composer is _______.

The __________ is known as the "king of instruments".

The Four Seasons was written by

In the Middle Ages documents were written by nobility.

Bach never composed an opera.

Perotin wrote the first harmonies known as _______.

Early operas were performed in _________.

Medieval courts used the arts to educate their young.