Quiz 8 Flashcards
Someone who possesses remarkable musical skill / ability.
Virtuoso
A harmonic system based on the use of major and minor scales, widely practiced from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century.
Major-Minor Tonality
Music drama that is generally sung throughout, combining the resources of vocal and instrumental music with poetry and drama, acting and dancing, scenery and costumes.
Opera
A male singer castrated to preserve a soprano or alto voice range into adulthood.
Castrato
The creation of music while it is being performed, as in Baroque embellishment.
Improvisation
Lyric song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment. Made for lead singers.
Aria
Solo vocal declamation that follows the inflections of the text, often resulting in a disjunct vocal style.
Recitative
Text or Script of an Opera.
Libretto
An introductory movement, as in an opera, often presenting melodies from arias to come. Also an orchestral work for concert performance.
Overture
Who wrote Dido and Aeneas? What is the Genre?
Written by Purcell. English Opera.
What are the performing forces for all of Opera?
Orchestra, Singers, Costumes, and Sets.
Special music meant to be performed during the Lutheran Mass.
Cantata
Who wrote a Cantata for every Sunday of the year?
Bach
Congregational hymn of the German Lutheran Mass.
Chorale
A multimovement work for solo singers, chorus, and orchestra set to a religious text and structured around a Lutheran Chorale.
Church Cantata
