Test #3 Review Game - Baroque Era

The ___________ was a group of artists, writers, and musicians who wanted to resurrect the Musical-dramatic art of ancient Greece.

• Thespians Society

• Florentine Camarata

• Art Deco Committee

• Unipol Gruppo

Venice was the first city that _________________ was performed in?

• Opera

• Basso Continuo

• Oratorio

• Orchestral Music

The Libretto is the (a)   of an opera.

Which Composer brought opera out of the royal courts and into the general public?

• Purcell

• Handel

• Cozzolani

• Monteverdi

A festive orchestra includes what types of instruments

• Strings

• Basso Continuo

• Piano

• Winds

What type of composition features a solo instrument and an orchestra?

• Fugue

• Sonata

• Baroque Concerto

• Toccata

Toccata means (a)   and is a type of baroque keyboard music that is written to sound improvised.

(a)   means "to sing" in Italian, and is a piece for voices and orchestra, often used in the Lutheran church for services.

Barbara Strozzi was a composer and singer from the baroque era, and was famous for writing arias about ________________, and published 8 volumes of music in their lifetime.

• Unfulfilled Love

• Tragedy

• Life and Death

• Love Triangles

A concerto Grosso is a type of composition features up to ____ soloists with orchestra?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5