Music with literary or pictorial associations

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

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

Speech-like text in an opera

German composer known for writing the Messiah

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

Italian composer who wrote opera in Baroque period

German composer know for writing The Well Tempered Clavier

A serious opera written about serious subject.