Baroque Era

Question 1

What does Baroque mean?

Answer 1

bizarre

Question 2

What was Baroque music like?

Answer 2

florid

Question 3

The Baroque era had a lot of ______ about music.

Answer 3

rules

Question 4

What years did the Baroque era take place?

Answer 4

1600 - 1750

Question 5

What type of music manipulated the listeners’ emotions?

Answer 5

Opera

Question 6

Vivaldi and Corelli were known for composing what kind of music?

Answer 6

Concertos

Question 7

Who wrote 200 church cantatas?

Answer 7

J.S. Bach

Question 8

A sonata was considered what?

Answer 8

secular

Question 9

The Thirty Years War was between the Catholics and ____________.

Answer 9

Protestants

Question 10

Pilgrims were known as _________ because they wanted to practice religion without persecution from the government.

Answer 10

separatists

Question 11

Who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Answer 11

Puritans

Question 12

Baroque opera houses had elaborate _________.

Answer 12

decorations

Question 13

Louis XIV was known as this kind of monarch.

Answer 13

Absolute

Question 14

Joseph Sauveur, the scientist who studied sound vibrations and acoustics was _________.

Answer 14

deaf

Question 15

What kind of music is written for a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra?

Answer 15

concerto

Question 16

What kind of music is written for one or two instruments accompanied by a harpsichord?

Answer 16

sonata

Question 17

What kind of music was written to be sung?

Answer 17

cantata