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