BAROQUE PERIOD questions & answers graded A+

BAROQUE PERIODBaroque Time Period Dates - correct answer Jean-Philippe Rameau - correct answer published the Treatise on Harmony, a system spelling out all the principles of harmony and tonality. French composer and theorist, most well known for opera Castor et Pollux (1737). George Philipp Telemann - correct answer (Bach's contemporary; competed with Bach for many posts, or jobs). Best known for promoting music to the public; published instructional materials and organized concerts to help familiarize the general public with music. Antonio Vivaldi - correct answer Music teacher at an orphanage for girls; born on the same day as a powerful earthquake shook his home city of Venice; wrote numerous operas, instrumental music and vocal music. Well known for writing 'The Four Seasons'. George Frideric Handel - correct answer Born in Germany, moved to England; wrote operas, religious vocal music, instrumental music, concertos, and keyboard music. Handel's most notable contribution is the English oratorio is the Messiah, written in 1742. Johann Sebastian Bach - correct answer German and considered one of the greatest composers in all of music. Kapellmeister at the court in Kothen, Germany; religious man, having 20 children in total-many of them became notable composers. He mastered nearly every style, form and genre (except opera) in the period. Johann Pachelbel - correct answer German composer who was J.S. Bach's older brother's music teacher; organist, composed over 500 pieces; famous for Canon in D. Johann Pachelbel - correct answer Mrs. Davis' FAVORITE composer from the Baroque period The Birth of Tonality - correct answer One of the most important developments in Baroque time period. Using chords and harmonies, replacing the church modes from the Medieval time period Tonality - correct answer harmony created when writing music that fits within a major or minor key. Also defined as the attraction, or pull, to the tonic. Chord - correct answer three or more different notes being played at the same time. Ornamentation - correct answer Melody decorated by the addition of extra notes--think of it as embellishment. 'baroque' - correct answer something is extravagant and/or complex BONUS...barroco - correct answer Portuguese word which means 'misshapen pearl', and where we get our term Baroque History-Galileo Galilei - correct answer discovers the moons of Jupiter History-Isaac Newton - correct answer publishes 'Principia', outlining the laws of motion and concept of gravity History-Kepler - correct answer German astronomer who argued that the planets move around the sun. Harmony - correct answer the sound of two or more notes played at one time. Of the Medieval church modes, which 2 were used in the Baroque era and are still used today? - correct answer Ionian (major scale); Aeolian (minor scale) Tonic - correct answer the key center, or 'home' note of any given key. In the Key of C, all other notes and chords tend to lead to the note C, or tonic Development of Opera - correct answer Besides the Birth of Tonality, this is the other important development of music in the Baroque period. Opera defined the beginning of Baroque and the end of Renaissance. It was one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the period.