Baroque Music Study Guide

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What years define the Baroque era of music?

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1600-1750

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Which musical form, combining music, drama, and spectacle, emerged during the Baroque era?

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Opera

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What compositional technique, featuring a continuous bass line, was central to Baroque music?

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Basso continuo

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Which significant invention during the Baroque era helped to refine major and minor key systems?

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Tonality

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Which Italian composer is known as "The Red Priest" and significantly influenced the concerto form?

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Antonio Vivaldi

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Which German composer’s oratorio *Messiah* remains a staple of Baroque music?

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George Frideric Handel

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Which English composer is known for his opera *Dido and Aeneas* and music for *The Fairy Queen*?

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Henry Purcell

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What term describes the solo vocal style with simple accompaniment that emerged in the Baroque period?

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Monody

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Which Baroque composer was known for his use of fugues and counterpoint, influencing future generations?

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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What new instrumental genre, characterized by a soloist and orchestral accompaniment, emerged in the Baroque era?

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Concerto