Midterm Review!

Who was known as the Red Priest?

Early operas were performed in _________.

Guillame de Machaut was famous for being a __________.

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

Medieval courts used the arts to educate their young.

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

A staged drama sung from beginning to end is an____________.

Handel wrote Fugue in G minor.

Perotin wrote the first harmonies known as _______.

The greatest 17th century English composer is _______.

Program music involves a poem with a singer and orchestra.

Bach never composed an opera.

The earliest chant manuscripts used ___________.

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

Masses are still only sung in Latin.

Repetition, variation, and contrast create_________.

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

Renaissance means "rebirth".

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

What are the years of the "Baroque" era?

Bach's Little Fugue is a cantata.

In the Middle Ages documents were written by nobility.

Who wrote "Tu se' morta" from Orpheus.

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

The Four Seasons was written by

The castrati were a natural phenomenon.

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

Multiple notes per syllable is known as

Churches in the Baroque Era were thrifty.

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