| The Baroque Period was during what years? |
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| What technique was newly used in the Baroque Period? |
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| Contrapuntal or Counterpoint |
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| List some things that set the Baroque style apart from the Renaissance period? |
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| Baroque was more chaotic, detailed, elaborate materials, religious music and structures, and had different shape. |
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| List the composers of the Baroque Period. |
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| J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, F. Couperin, G.F. Handel, Jean-Phillip Rameau, Claudio Montiverdi, and D. Scarlatti. |
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| How did the music change from the other periods to the Baroque Period? |
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| instruments. string-oriented music, brass added toward end of Baroque Period. |
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| Was Stradivarius still making instruments during the Baroque Period? |
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| What are J.S. Bach’s dates? (birth and death) |
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Birth 3-21-1685
Death 7-28-1750 |
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| When did the Baroque Period end? |
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| Where were Bach’s parents when he was a child? |
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| in a grave somewhere, dead |
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| Who did Bach live with after his parents died and what was that person’s trade? |
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| With his brother who was a church musician. He taught Bach his trade- how to play instruments. |
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| What was considered to be Bach’s instrument? |
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| Did Bach ever travel out of Germany? |
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| Bach had ________ wives in his lifetime, and he had ______ kids with his first and _________kids with his second. |
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| 2 wives, 7 kids w/ first wife, 13 w/ second wife. |
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| How many of Bach’s children lived to adulthood? |
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| What did Bach do all of his life? |
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| At what age did Bach begin to compose? |
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| Was Bach considered a child prodigy? |
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| Bach traveled within Germany for what reasons? |
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| to go to concerts and to take lessons |
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| Bach was a court-appointed ________ |
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| Bach’s second wife was ___________ and together they created the tuning system and “_____________________” |
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| Anna Magdelana, “The Well-Tempered Clavier” |
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| Did Bach compose in counterpoint? |
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| What types of music did Bach compose? |
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cantatas, oratorios, Lieder, Concertos, and string quartets
NOT opera |
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| What was a Kappelmeister? (Bach was this) |
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| Bach wrote over ____________ works of music. |
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layered dynamic levels within a composition.
Abrupt, different levels
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| one of Montiverdi’s most famuos operas is…. |
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| What were Montiverdi’s dates? |
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| one of the earliest operas still known today |
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“Tu se morte” means “You are dead”
What kind of opera is it? |
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| recitative (dialogue in an opera) |
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| Who developed the chord structure still used today? |
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| Jean-Phillip Rameau (1683-1764) |
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| “The Messiah” is a work that who is famous for? |
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| How many days did it take to create “The Messiah?” |
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| “The Messiah” was first performed when? |
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| 8 months after its creation at a charity event where Handel directed it himself |
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| Did Handel consider “The Messiah” to be complex? |
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| Why didn’t Handel want to make a complex work? |
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| because the orchestra and vocalists in Dublin weren’t nearly as good as those in England. |
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| What were Vivaldi’s dates? |
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| What was Vivaldi’s nickname? |
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| Vivaldi left the ministry and became what? |
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| a director of music at a girl’s orphanage |
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| What instruments did Vivaldi often play? |
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| Why did Vivaldi write a lot of music? |
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| Because the chorus at the orphanage was very good |
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| Vivaldi wrote concertos, which are… |
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| solo parts alternated with a group of instruments. |
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| Who established the 3-movement scheme which had fast/slow/fast? |
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| How many concertos did Vivaldi write? |
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| What is a Grand Concerto? |
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| work in which there is a contrast between large and small sections |
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| Handel was a _____________ composer |
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| Vivaldi wrote ___________ music |
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| F. Couperin was a ___________ composer. |
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