The Baroque Period

Baroque style flourished in music during the period ____.

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and ____.

The early baroque was characterized by ____.

The late baroque period spanned the years ____.

Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in ____ period.

Baroque melodies often are ____.

Melodic sequence refers to ____.

What is one characteristic often found in baroque melodies?

A popular keyboard instrument in which sound was produced by means of brass blades striking the strings was the ____.

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the ____.

A brass part together with numbers that specify the chords to be played above it is called ____.

The orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the ____ family.

To what does the word movement in music normally refer?

A large court during the baroque period might employ about ____ performers.

The music director of a baroque court was usually not responsible for ____.

Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, was a ____.

In the baroque period, the ordinary citizen's opportunities for hearing music usually came from the ____.

In Italy, music schools were often connected with ____.

A concerto grosso most often has ____ movement(s).

The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the ____.

The concerto grosso most often has three movements whose tempo markings are ____.

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in ____ form.

The solo instruments in Bach's Bradenburg Concerto No. 5 are the ____, violin, and harpsichord.

The main theme of a fugue is called the ____.

When the subject of a fugue is presented in the dominant scale, it is called the ____.

In many fugues, the subject in one voice is constantly accompanied in another voice by a different melodic idea called a(n) ____.

Transitional section of a fugue that offer either new material or fragments of the subject or countersubject are called ____.

A ____ is a single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while the other voices produce a series of changing harmonies against it.

Presenting the subject of a fugue in shortened time values is called ____.

An ____ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.

The text, or book, of a musical dramatic works is called the ____.

A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called a/an ____.

____ refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech.

A ____ is a singer with a low range who usually takes comic roles.

A(n) ____ is an operatic number involving three or more leading singers.

The ____ is the person who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians, and controls the balance among instruments and voices.

An ____ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work.