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1. | The orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the ____________ family. |
2. | The ____________ is the person who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians, and controls the balance among instruments and voices. |
3. | Baroque melodies often are _______ and _________ |
4. | The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the |
5. | Vivaldi wrote _________ for a great variety of instruments. |
7. | An ____________ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action. |
8. | The solo instruments in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are the ____________, violin, and harpsichord. |
12. | Monteverdi's vocal music ordinarily was supported by a ____________ and other instruments. (two words) |
14. | ____________ were male singers who had been castrated before puberty. |
15. | The first oratorios were based on stories from the _______. |
17. | A sung piece, or choral work with or without vocal soloists, usually with orchestral accompaniment, is the |
19. | Most early baroque operas were based on _______ mythology and ancient history. |
20. | Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no _______, scenery, or costumes. |
21. | Baroque suites frequently begin with a ___________ ____________ (Two words) |
24. | To evoke angry or warlike feelings in some of his texts, Monteverdi introduced new orchestral effects, including pizzicato and |
29. | Turning the subject of a fugue upside down, or reversing the direction of each interval, is called |
30. | Handel spent the major portion of his life in |
32. | Handel's Messiah is an example of |
33. | A large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text, is called |
34. | A Vivaldi concerto usually has ____________ movements. |
37. | In the baroque period the ordinary citizen's opportunities for hearing music usually came from the |
38. | Oratorios first appeared in |