Baroque Quiz!!

Name the two new woodwind instruments developed in the Baroque time period.

The four string instruments are Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass?

In what ways did composers use contrast in their music?

What country was Bach born in?

The Lute and Harpsichord usually provided the accompaniment?

Handel is most famous for composing in the Oratorio.

The Baroque Period was from _________ to _________?

In baroque music we see a shift of melodies that go from polyphonic complicated lines to what?

Vivaldi’s had vision problems.

What stories are almost all early Opera based on?

Composers began to get more specific about what aspect of their music?

We know that Vivaldi’s grave site was a very simple grave in a publicly owned cemetery, why was this?

Near the end of Bach’s life, he lost one of his five senses, which one?

What was Claudio Monteverdi’s most famous Opera?

What was the name of Vivaldi’s most famous piece of music?

Felix Mendelssohn found Bach’s music in a second hand store.

What determined what kind (sacred, secular, or other genres) of music composers wrote?

Handel spent most of his professional life in England composing for whom?

What are two of Bach’s most famous pieces?

The 3 superpowers that gained control of most of the world were England, Italy, and France?

What was the name of the artistic movement that emerged in the second half of the Baroque time period?

What is Handel’s most famous piece of music?

What does Baroque mean in portuguese?

Why was Handel’s funeral so well attended? (describe why he was so popular by the time he passed away)

How do we hear Vivaldi’s music today, in the modern world?

Opera developed in 1601 and in Italy?

How was Handel’s parents taught him how to play music?

Who taught Bach musically, first?

What instrument was Vivaldi taught and by whom?

Vivaldi wrote what kind of poetry to describe his compositional process of creating The Four Seasons

What was a (new) big source of income for composers in the Baroque period?

What country was Handel born in?

Three concepts composers are considering when writing music are audience emotion, similarities, and Melody and Rhythm?

What two groups of people believed that music was a tool of communication and could arouse emotion?

After Vivaldi could no longer perform priest duties in his first career, he got a job teaching violin at an Orphanage.

An oratorio is non-religious and consists of an orchestra, choir, 4 instrumental soloists?

The Baroque period is not known solely for musicians. Which one is not one of them?

What country was Vivaldi born in?

In what season/holiday do we hear Handel’s music the most today, in the modern world?

Music not helping a story or plot along is defined as Program Music.

What institution (place) did Bach work for most of his career?

How do we hear Bach’s music today in the modern world?

Three famous Opera composers were Handel, Monteverdi, and Purcell.

Name the new percussion instrument developed in the Baroque time period.