Baroque Music Quiz

Italian for "Plucked"

• Pettinato

• Arco

• Andante

• Pizzicato

• Allegro

Seasonal piece by an Italian composer....

• 6 Seasons by Beethoven

• To the Spring by Edward Grieg

• The Planets by Gustav Holst

• 4 Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi

A large work for voice and orchestra, based on a biblical or religious event

• Motet

• Madrigal

• Oratorio

• Opera

Choose a composer famous for Oratorios

• George Frederick Handel

• John Philip Handle

• Joseph Haydn

• Johannes Sebastian Bach

Name another work by the composer you chose in the previous question, which is not an Oratorio

• Toccata in Fugue in D minor

• Sheep may safely graze

• Music for the Royal Fireworks

• The Fairy queen

A piece written to show off the performer's technique, usually followed by a fugue

• Tarantella

• Toccata

• Sonata

• Suite

Name an Italian composer of the era, known as the father of opera

• Henry Purcell

• Annunzio Paolo Mantovani

• Claudio Monteverdi

• Arcangelo Corelli

Name a keyboard instrument in which strings were plucked

• Clavichord

• Harpsichord

• Pianoforte

• Organ

Name another baroque composer coming from a famous musical family born in the same year as Handel

• Antonio Vivaldi

• Ludwig Van Beethoven

• Johann Pachelbel

• Johann Sebastian Bach

Choose two famous works by the correct composer you chose in the previous question

• Air in G

• Canon in D

• Messiah

• Brandenburg Concerto