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1
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What are opera and oratorio and how are they related?

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Operas are secular, about non religious stories, with acting, costumes, and scenery. Oratorios are secular about religious texts, without costumes, acting, and scenery. Operas and oratorios both have arias. Operas are musical theater, and oratorios are concert pieces. Operas have acting and characters interact with each other, oratorios do not. Opera=Orfeo, Oratorio=Messiah

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Affections

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emotion, feeling, sentiment

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Terraced Dynamics

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abrupt shift

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Basso Continuo

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an accompanying part that includes a bass line and harmonies, typically played on a keyboard instrument and with other instruments such as cello or bass viol

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Figured Bass

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bass part with numbers

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Movement

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sounds like its own piece, but is part of a larger work

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Fugue

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composition with one main theme

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Aria

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a long, accompanied song for a solo voice`

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Libretto

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text of an opera

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Overture

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short composition, purely instrumental, introduces an opera or any longer work

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Suite

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a set of instrumental compositions, originally in dance style, to be played in succession.

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Opera

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a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists

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Oratorio

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(Messiah) Large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative text, but without acting, scenery, or costumes; often based on biblical stories

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What does the term baroque mean?

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Bizarre, flamboyant, ornamented

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Baroque time period?

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1600 - 1750

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George Frideric Handel?

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Went to England for 47 years, composer, Messiah, started in Germany, wrote opera and oratorios, queen Anne’s favorite composer, 3,000 mourners

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Johann Sebastian Bach?

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Organist, organ teacher, composer, most eminent organ player

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18
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When does instrumental music become as important as vocal?

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late

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What are the affections?

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Emotion of the performer

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What does repeated rhythmic patterns provide in music?

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Energy and drive

21
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Describe baroque melodies?

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Heavily ornamented

22
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A melodic sequence is?

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Where melody is repeated at different pitch level

23
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What were the keyboard instruments of the baroque era? Which one was considered for home use?

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Harpsichord, clavichord, pipe organ. Clavichord.

24
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What is basso continuo?

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Continuous bass, keyboard and low string instruments make a continuous bassline

25
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Which bass part has numbers that tell a musician what to play?

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Figured bass

26
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What instrument family becomes the major part of the orchestra?

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strings(violin family)

27
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What is a music director’s responsibilities? And what is their social standing?

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Pay was high, was a high class servant

28
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Why does Bach write the harpsichord into the Brandenburg Concertos as a soloist?

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Employer bought brand new instrument, so he wrote it in as a solo to feature it

29
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What is the main theme of a fugue called? And what is it called when it is restated in the dominant key?

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Subject, answer

30
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What is set to music, accompanied by an orchestra, has scenery, costumes, action, and is full of drama?

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opera

31
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What is the text of an opera called?

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libretto

32
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An opera song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called?

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aria

33
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In opera if two main voices are singing it is called a…?

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duet

34
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In opera if three or more main voices are singing it is called an…?

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ensemble

35
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What is the conductor’s role with an opera?

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Shapes work with tempos, cues, dynamics

36
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When is an overture played during an opera?

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The beginning

37
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When and where did the first public opera house open?

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Venice in 1637

38
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What is the name of Orpheus’s wife?

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Eurydice

39
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What are the castrati?

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Group of male singers who were castrated before puberty

40
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Where is Henry Purcell buried, and why did he get that honor?

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Beneath the organ in Westminster Abbey, because he was the organist for the church, and he was a great opera writer.

41
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Where did Vivaldi spend his life teaching?

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Pieta in Venice, a school for orphaned girls

42
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What piece of program music is Vivaldi famous for?

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Spring

43
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What did Bach do when he was in Leipzig?

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DIrector of music at St. Mark’s church

44
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Bach was the most ________ of his day?

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Eminent organ player

45
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Where did Bach pull his musical style from?

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Italian concertos, French dance, German church music

46
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What are suites?

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sets of dance inspired movements

47
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What is like an opera, but draws its material from the bible and doesn’t have acting or costumes?

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oratorios

48
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What composer was born the same year as Bach?

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Handel

49
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Where did Handel take an extended leave to?

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England

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