Baroque Music

7. ___________________was only 25 when he started working at an orphanage for girls. And over the next thirty years he composed most of his major works while working there.
8. Johann Sabastian Bach is a (what country)______________ composer.
9. George Fredrick Handel was the son of a _____________/surgeon.
11. The Bach family was of importance in the history of music for nearly two hundred years, with over 50 known musicians and several notable composers, the best-known of whom was_______________________,
13. Johann Sebastian Bach, made _______________ the godfather and namesake of his son Emanuel.
14. Other than in a patron's home, where did a person go to hear musicians play and sing?
15. When the Halleluiah Chorus is performed at the end of The Messiah, it is tradition that the audience __________.
17. Was King George I happy with George Fredrick Handel's music that he heard the musicians play on the barge?
18. Telemann’s music is an important link between the late Baroque and early _____________________styles.
19. J.S. Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all _________,
22. The Messiah is traditionally performed at ____________ time.
23. King George I and several aristocrats boarded a royal barge at Whitehall Palace in London for an excursion up the ___________ River.
24. 50 musicians sat on a barge and played_____________________ for King George I.

1. ________________ and Fugue by Johann Sabastian Bach is a piece written for organ.
2. Term used for big volume changes in Baroque music.
3. Johann Sabastian Bach was a famous church _____________ and choir director.
4. Vivaldi taught in a ______________ school for orphans.
5. Who wrote the famous strings piece The Four Seasons?
6. Vivaldi was known as the red headed ___________.
9. The Messiah consists of text from the ___________.
10. It is true that it takes a real ______________ violinist to play the solo part in the Four Seasons.
12. An oratorio is a choir piece that is accompanied by an _____________________.
16. Some of the Baroque pieces are written for dancing and these dance steps are called: minuet, sarabande, ____________ (or jig), bourée, gavotte, and courante.
20. George Fredrick Handel wrote The Messiah while sitting in debtors _____________.
21. The Messiah is about the birth of ______________.
25. Starts with an "r". An element that Baroque composers experimented with when writing music.