Baroque Period Flashcards
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What are the dates of the Baroque Period?
What significant event ended the Baroque Period?
What does “Baroque” mean?
Name one significant event in history, outside of music in the Baroque.
The doctrine that said music could have an affect on the human body was called?
Sudden large changes to dynamics in Baroque music was called?
Large pieces of music are broken up into smaller pieces that can sometimes stand alone, those smaller pieces of the whole are called
A large play set to music that includes props, costumes, sets, and every word is sung is called
The storyline of an opera is called
A high voiced male part that required an operation on the singer in order to produce, was called the
A song in an opera that is like speech set to music is called
Who wrote the first successful opera
A bass line that repeats continuously in a song is called
Vivaldi was a virtuoso
Vivaldi’s most famous work was
The three great composers of the Baroque Period are
An Oratorio is the same as an opera except for
Who is famous for his oratorios?
