Orchestra Part 1 Revision

How many players are typically in a chamber orchestra?

Which of the following is a key element of Baroque music?

In which act of Orfeo is Euridice bitten by a poisonous snake?

A cor anglais is also called an English horn

More composers wrote music for orchestras during the Baroque period

What Greek god takes Orfeo to heaven in Act Five?

Select all of the reasons the Cornetto fell out of use in the late 1600s

Select all of the characteristics of the Baroque era

What is this instrument?

The percussion are at the back of an orchestra because they are so loud

Monteverdi bridges the gap between Renaissance and Baroque music

What 16th century opera signified the start of modern orchestration?

A Cornetto is played in a similar way to...

What is the dynamic in the third and final section?

The renaissance instrument, Cornetto, means what in Italian?

The Baroque orchestra was very large and had over 30 musicians

What are the dates of the Renaissance era?

Monteverdi's greatest contribution was to which music genre?

Opera required larger ensembles, hence the creation of the orchestra

Which type of performance was new in the Renaissance era?

Which composer is credited with the development of the Baroque orchestra?

The rhythm is the same in bar 3, 4, 5 and 6

Most of Monteverdi's operas are lost

Who wrote The Four Seasons

Henry Purcell was a composer from...

A symphony orchestra consists of strings, woodwind and percussion instruments

What large orchestra typically has around 100 players?

Select all of the instrument families in a Baroque orchestra

When and where was Claudio Monteverdi born?

What was a key musical style of the era?

Instruments like the piano, celeste and harp are not included in the orchestra

Where do first violins sit in relation to the conductor?

Baroque comes from the Portuguese word, barroco

A viola has lower sounding strings than a violin

Which instrument used to sit in the position of the modern cellos?

What are the dates of the Baroque era?

The oboe is played with a double reed

What type of tuning was becoming more common?

Select all of the Renaissance instruments

Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the fortepiano/pianoforte during the Baroque period

Which instrument family plays the theme first?

What new instrument was introduced to the Baroque orchestra?

This is a tam-tam

Another name for this instrument is violoncello

The only percussion instrument used in the Baroque orchestra was the snare drum and it was used very sparingly.

A Tenor Cornetto is also called a Lizard

What style of music was popular at the start of the Baroque period?

What is this instrument?

What is this instrument?

Which two instrument families do you hear in Rondeau?

In Greek mythology, Orpheus was a...

Italian dynamic terms were popularised during this time

Another key element was...

These elements resulted in more complex compositions and required a higher level of skill from the performer

The word 'symphony' comes from a word meaning 'to sound together'. What is the language?

Chamber orchestra is another name for a small orchestra

In what century did the modern orchestra begin?

Renaissance orchestras have...