WorksheetsBaroque Music Test
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
This word comes from a portuguese term meaning “irregularly shaped pearl”
concerto
oratorio
fugue
Baroque
An Oratorio is
musical work involving an orchestra and singers, usually telling a story based on a sacred text or theme
A small opera
Like an oreo but sacred
a staged drama that is mostly sung with an orchestra as accompaniment
A concerto is a piece of music that mainly consists of
Only vocalists
Only stringed instruments
Only wind instrumentsl
All of the above.
An ensemble of various instruments and voices playing together, usually with soloists or groups of instruments competing with the larger orchestra is called
An Opera
A Concerto
An Oratorio
A Battle
The difference between a concerto and an opera is
An Opera is all singing and no instruments
A concerto is all instruments and no singing
An opera is a drama production, while a concerto is only a musical production.
A concerto has soloists while opera is only chorus
King George II stood up during the first performance of the Hallelujah chorus, and it has become a tradition ever since.
True
False
Jean-Baptiste Lully accidentally stabbed his toe with his conducting cane during a performance. It developed what illness which caused his death?
Tetanus
Covid-19
Gangrene
It didn't lead to his death. It was just BAROQUE.
The harpsichord was the ancestor of what instrument?
Pianoforte
Piano
Sackbut
Concerto
Who was an organist at Westminster Abbey and, after death, was buried next to the organ
Purcell
Lully
Scarlatti
Corelli
The word "prolific" meas
Pro-life
To create in large quantities
To lift a great distance
Intelligent
"The Four Seasons" was composed by
Lully
Scarlatti
Handel
Vivaldi
Handel's most famous composition was
24 Italian Arias
The Messiah
The Four Seasons
Gangsters Paradise
J.S. Bach was known for his
toccatas
concertos
oratorios
All of the above
