Cindy's Quiz of DOOOOOMMMMMM (prt. 1)

What was the apex period for the Florentine Camerata?

Why was text more important than the music during the Renaissance era?

What other new concept did L'Orfeo possess?

What is the main thing that exemplifies the Baroque era?

What element was most important to the Florentine Camerata?

What was the earliest form of opera?

What type of opera began with the advancement of stage technology?

Who were the two librettists that helped to crystalize opera seria with their text?

How many acts does opera seria contain?

What type of texts did the composers of the Renaissance draw their libretti from?

What was the first opera that assigned specific parts for specific characters and voice types?

What country produced the madrigal comedy?

What form of entertainment appeared as short tableaus that were first presented during the intermission of an opera?

What was the title of the first ever attempt at opera?

List two genres that were antecedents to modern opera. (this question has multiple correct answers)

Name three elements that Gluck contributed to opera.

Which antecedent originated with troubadour poets?

What element is unique to opera comique?

What idea began with opera in Venice?

What type of singing did the early operas contain?

What was the inpiration of the Florentine Camerata?

Which city did opera move to during the Baroque era?

Which composer brought a new level of characterization and expressiveness to his operas?

What reigned supreme during the Baroque era?

What was the name of the intermezzo that began a controversy pitting french and Italian opera against each other?

Who wrote an essay on opera in which he states all the contributing elements of opera that should not strain reason?

What did many of Mozart's arias end with?

What are three unique elements of tragedy lyrique?

Who was considered the father of French opera and controlled all the music performed in France?

Name two genres in the Baroque era in which singers would string short arias together to create their own opera.

Opera buffa led to the development of which French genre?

In France, who is considered to be the great culminator due to his exceptional technical and theoretical knowledge?

What were the two genres of French opera in the Baroque era?

What served as the plot of mystery plays?

What did the Renaissance era represent?

What did Monteverdi explore in L'Orfeo?

The use of what musical practice developed in opera in the Baroque that we still hear today?

Who established opera seria's musical form?

What was important to Gluck?

Which instrumental group in the orchestra was stabilized during the Baroque era?

What did the Renaissance era attempt to portray? (this question has multiple correct answers)

Who composed Daphne?

What was the first opera to stabilize form and structure?

What was the name of the humanistic discussion group that formed in the late Renaissance in Italy

What elements did the masque include?

Who composed L'Orfeo?

What Renaissance art form was considered the highest form in England?

What city experienced continuous development in opera during the Baroque era?

What are three criteria that all operas had to follow in the Classical era?

What is the first English opera that was influenced by Lully?

What type of movement was the Renaissance era?

Who are the two composers that lay the groundwork for the Romantic era

Who was the great culminator of English opera during the Baroque era?

Name three composers influenced by Gluck.

What opera was considered to be Monteverdi's masterpiece?

Which composer marks the transition from Renaissance to Baroque?

Which antecedent of opera featured tableaus with antiphonal song?

What did the Florentine Camerata discuss?

What transformation does the orchestra experience in the Baroque era?