Baroque #1 What is the name of the keyboard instrument that preceded the piano? #2 The form of music written to be performed in a church service: #3 1600-1750 What is a harpsichord? What is a cantata? What are the dates of the Baroque era? What is a suite? #4 A larger work consisting of individual movements written for orchestra. It is also a term often given to a collection of pieces taken from music written for an opera or ballet and compiled into an orchestral Suite for performance in a concert setting. #5 What are two types of compositions for solo What is a sonata and concerto? instruments with orchestral accompaniment and three to four movements? J.S. Bach #1 The country where Bach was born. #2 Name two instruments that Bach played. Where is Germany? What is the violin, organ, and harpsichord? He put him in prison. #3 What did Bach’s employer, Duke Wilhelm Ernst do when Bach announced that he was looking for a new job? #4 The place where Bach mostly worked was a What is a church? (4 churches ______________. and two choirs) #5 Bach's birth and death dates 1685-1750 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 George Frideric Handel The country where Handel traveled to study music because home was too boring. In this country Handel discovered his first love, opera. One of Handel's best known oratorios Handel moved to and died in this city. Handel wrote this piece of music for King George I and performed it on the Thames River. When the "Hallelujah Chorus" is performed, it is traditional to _________. Italy What is "The Messiah?" Where is London? Water Music What is stand? Antonio Vivaldi #1 Vivaldi's nickname #2 Place of Vivaldi's birth The Red Priest Where is Venice, Italy? #3 For whom did Vivaldi write his music? #4 Vivaldi's best known music Who are orphans? What are "The Four Seasons" (La Primavera - Spring) #5 Although famous in his day Vivaldi ending up dying What is penniless? in this financial standing. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 Music Elements/Review We use thick/thin to describe how many instruments are playing at the same time? What is it called when music moves rhythmically at the same time. The descriptor for music that has many parts at different times with different rhythms. Which two composers were born in the same year? Which two composers went blind? Final Question Name one famous person and event that occured during the Baroque era? What is texture? What is homophonic? What is polyphonic? Who are Bach and Handel? Who are Handel and Bach? Artists: Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Vermeer Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton (discovers law of gravity), Fahrenheit (invented thermometer), George Washington, Invention of the piano, invention of the steam boiler