Baroque Music

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Across
  1. 2. The subject begins with the last note and is played in reverse.
  2. 5. Comic operas with a light-hearted storyline that often have happy endings.
  3. 6. Considered the first great opera.
  4. 9. When a melodic idea is repeated in higher or lower intervals.
  5. 12. The acronym to help remembers the intervals in a major scale.
  6. 14. The subject's original time values are lengthened to make it seem slower.
  7. 16. Singing that matches the flow of speaking.
  8. 17. Multiple notes over one syllable.
  9. 18. A keyboard instrument plays the bass line with chords above.
  10. 22. A drama sung to an orchestral accompaniment, with staging, acting, and scenery.
  11. 23. Accompaniment lines gain this in the baroque era.
  12. 26. Perfector of the violin.
  13. 28. A compositional technique combining two or more melodic lines into a meaningful whole.
  14. 31. This German composer was a master of counterpoint and wrote many fugues.
  15. 33. A work for voices and instruments that is not staged, can vary in ensemble size, and may be secular or sacred.
  16. 35. The text of an opera.
  17. 37. Sudden and abrupt dynamics.
  18. 38. A master of Italian opera and English oratorio.
  19. 39. A large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra with no acting, scenery, or costumes.
  20. 40. He was an Italian composer who was also an ordained Priest.
Down
  1. 1. Operas with serious content and plots, often ending in tragedy.
  2. 3. A polyphonic composition based on one central theme, called a "subject."
  3. 4. Members of the cast who do not sing or dance.
  4. 7. Each European capital would have several of these.
  5. 8. Age of _____________:The intellectual and philosophical movement of the 17th and 18th centuries.
  6. 10. A male singer who had been castrated before puberty to keep his voice from dropping to a lower range.
  7. 11. A keyboard instrument invented at the end of the Baroque era whose original name meant "soft-loud" in Italian.
  8. 13. These types of chords become commonplace.
  9. 15. Those who are thought to have absolute power.
  10. 18. Creator of the scientific method.
  11. 19. A composition in several movements for one to eight instruments.
  12. 20. English physicist associated with the laws of motions and physics.
  13. 21. The subject's original time values are shortened to make it seem faster.
  14. 24. A single piece of vocal music used for congregational singing in religious services that is easy to sing and remember.
  15. 25. A composition for instrumental soloist/s and orchestra, usually in three movements: fast, slow, fast.
  16. 27. I think therefore I...
  17. 29. He was an Italian composer from the early Baroque period who wrote what is considered to be the first great opera, Orfeo.
  18. 30. An outstanding performer of the highest abilities.
  19. 32. An academic musical society of nobles, poets, and composers who met in the late 1500s for musical discussions.
  20. 34. The subject is turned upside down. Upward leaps become downward leaps and vice versa.
  21. 36. He was a choirboy in the royal chapel and began working for the British court at 18.