Unit 5

What is Bach's catalogue called?

An oratorio similar to opera but a concert piece, and not a performance.

What architecture is an example of the High Baroque period?

Opera Buffa is a tragic style of Opera.

What is it called when someone is hired as a composer or musician in the Baroque era?

Antonio Vivaldi worked where for 30 years?

The Baroque Period is from 1600-1750

What country regulated music during the Baroque period?

Handel composed music for the Royal Fireworks

What was the first English Opera?

Dialogue in opera that is often sung to a speaking pattern is called...

The word barraco means

The first opera was called L'Orfeo.

Bach never composed an Opera.

Most operas were about mythology

What is the musical notation using numbers to indicate which notes to lay above the bass note?

Handel spent most of his life as a patron

What is the addition of non-necessary musical flourishes?

What does the word Opera mean in Italian?

A series of dances is called a...

A prelude is NOT optional in an instrumental suite

What country was NOT involved in the Baroque period?

Art and Music would go hand in hand throughout the Baroque Era.

Antonio Vivaldi is the composer of "the Messiah"

Bach founded the Royal Academy of Music

Courante in French means...

A solo work for the main character is called?

There are 6 additional movements that can be added to the suite.

Bach's death would mark the end of the Baroque Period.

Which one of these are a basic/main part of the instrumental suite?

The philosophers of the Baroque Period put an importance on which two things?

Bach would create his own sense of Counterpoint that would carry us into the Classical Era.