Baroque period

The text of an opera

• concerto

• opera seria

• libretto

Music with literary or pictorial associations

• program music

• opera

• cantata

A large scale musical drama that combines poetry, acting, scenery and costumes with singing and instrumental music

• Opera

• Oratorio

A large scale musical composition on a sacred subject, sung with accompaniment, but never preformed on a stage or with scenery and costumes

• Opera

• Oratorio

Speech-like text in an opera

• Recitative Speech

• Rap

German composer known for writing the Messiah

• Handel

• Back

Music notation were bassline is written out under the melody, often repeated.

• Basso Continuo

• Fugue

Italian composer who wrote opera in Baroque period

• Vivaldi

• Monteverdi

German composer know for writing The Well Tempered Clavier

• Handel

• Bach

A serious opera written about serious subject.

• Opera seria

• Opera buffa