baroque

3. the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
6. operatic solo; a song sung by one person in an opera or oratorio
8. an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound
12. A palace built by Louis XIV outside of Paris; it was home to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
13. a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
14. The musical texture in which the separate musical lines are particularly clear and stay independent more or less throughout a piece.
15. decorated with extra notes, such as trills and grace-notes
16. a musical composition for a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra, especially one conceived on a relatively large scale.
17. a medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra.
19. Group of the most wealthy and privileged
20. music for a small instrumental ensemble with one instrument per line of music

1. In music, the combining of notes to sound at the same time major-minor tonality
2. Hymn tune sung to a German religious text; in the Baroque it could be other languages.
4. The study of matter and energy and the interactions between the two through forces and motion.
5. Originally meant grotesque or odd
7. The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space
9. A government in which the king or queen has absolute power.
10. 1600-175
11. thenotes of a chord played in succession to one another, rather than simultaneously; a broken chord
16. a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played
18. A kind of counterpoint where one voice begins, followed by another voice singing the same tune- like a round.