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- 2. - comic operas with a light-hearted storyline that often have happy endings.
- 6. - a musical academic society of nobles, poets, and composers who met in the late 1500s for musical discussions.
- 7. - this becomes commonplace in Baroque music, and is a technique where musicians would add details to specific notes or melodies.
- 10. - a composition in several movements for one to eight instruments.
- 13. - a composition for instrumental soloist and orchestra, usually in three movements: fast, slow, fast.
- 15. - considered the first great opera.
- 16. - in a fugue, this technique reverses the subject and begins with the last note.
- 17. - the main theme of a fugue.
- 18. - an outstanding performer of the highest abilities.
- 22. - churches used these in their music and art to appeal to the public.
- 24. - the creator of the music.
- 26. - serious opera that often end in tragedy.
- 28. - in a fugue, this technique shortens the subject to make it sound faster.
- 29. - The first known opera written in the Baroque style.
- 31. - considered one of the greatest composers of all time now. During his life, he was not famous.
- 33. - a musical work for one or more voices with instrumental accompaniment.
- 34. - this was the primary source of entertainment during the Baroque era.
- 36. - these were colonized during the Baroque era.
- 37. - the baroque era focused on this with goals of happiness, freedom, and knowledge.
- 39. - the creator of the opera text.
- 40. - these contained an array of decadent surface treatments, twisting elements, and gilded statuary during the Baroque era.
- 42. - sacred music became much more ___________.
- 44. - this is the most frequently performed oratorio today.
- 47. - this age is the intellectual and philosophical movement of the 17th/18th centuries.
- 50. - master of the Italian Opera and English Oratorio.
- 52. - this technique emphasized words in music by extending them.
- 54. - later music in the Baroque era leaned toward this.
- 55. - vocal piece for two voices and instrumental accompaniment.
- 56. - also called "supers," these are members of the cast who do not sing or dance, but carry out acts such as holding props.
- 58. - these types of chords became commonplace in Baroque music.
- 59. - how many moods does a Baroque piece usually express?
- 61. - was composed and commissioned for specific events and services.
- 62. - this invention of Galileo allowed people to see that the sun was the center of the solar system.
- 63. - the number of opera houses in Venice during 1637-1700.
- 64. - although developed in the Renaissance, this is still a commonly used technique by Baroque composers.
- 65. - these ran the governments of Europe during the Baroque era.
- 66. - this is used more freely in Baroque music to create extreme emotions.
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- 1. - a composition for several instrumental soloists and small orchestra; common in the late baroque era.
- 3. - this instrument was invented to the end of the baroque era.
- 4. continuo - a keyboard instrument that plays the bass line with chords above.
- 5. - the musical technique of repeating an idea at different times in different voices.
- 8. - major and minor scales become this basis for most music during the Baroque period.
- 9. - a male singer who had been castrated before puberty to keep his voice from dropping to a lower range.
- 11. - a compositional technique combining two or more melodic lines into a meaningful whole.
- 12. - singers, both soloists and chorus members.
- 14. - a technique in which singing matches patterns of speech.
- 19. - a large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra that has no acting, scenery, or costumes.
- 20. - repeated rhythmic patterns throughout a Baroque piece gave this.
- 21. - these were characterized by exaggeration, clarity, and dramatic use of light during the Baroque era.
- 23. - considered the greatest English composer from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
- 25. - a composer who lived and worked in Venice during the later years of the Baroque era. He is most famous for his work "The Four Seasons."
- 27. - were considered by composers to expand the polyphony and melodies.
- 30. - members of the orchestra that accompanies the vocalists and dancers.
- 32. - help to tell the story through dance.
- 35. - melodic vocal solo with instrumental accompaniment.
- 38. - perfected the violin during the Baroque era.
- 41. - vocal piece for a choir of voices.
- 43. - melodies of Baroque music are usually _________ and difficult to remember.
- 45. - repeated use of the melodic idea in higher or lower intervals.
- 46. - these people employed many musicians, as they did very little work and constantly yearned for entertainment.
- 48. - in a fugue, this technique lengthens the subject to make it sound slower.
- 49. - these were expressive, emotional, and dynamic during the Baroque era.
- 51. - dynamic shifts are usually this, going from soft to loud abruptly. Also referred to as "terraced dynamics"
- 53. - rhythms are often this throughout a Baroque piece of music.
- 57. - stages the production and coaches the cast on how to act, move, and portray their characters.
- 60. - in a fugue, this technique takes the subject and turns it upside down.