BAROQUE PERIOD Study Guide Exam Questions 2024.

BAROQUE PERIOD Study Guide Exam Questions 2024. Baroque Time Period Dates - correct answer Jean-Philippe Rameau - correct answer published the Treatise on Harmony, a system spelling out all the principles of harmony and tonality. French composer and theorist, most well known for opera Castor et Pollux (1737). George Philipp Telemann - correct answer (Bach's contemporary; competed with Bach for many posts, or jobs). Best known for promoting music to the public; published instructional materials and organized concerts to help familiarize the general public with music. Antonio Vivaldi - correct answer Music teacher at an orphanage for girls; born on the same day as a powerful earthquake shook his home city of Venice; wrote numerous operas, instrumental music and vocal music. Well known for writing 'The Four Seasons'. George Frideric Handel - correct answer Born in Germany, moved to England; wrote operas, religious vocal music, instrumental music, concertos, and keyboard music. Handel's most notable contribution is the English oratorio is the Messiah, written in 1742. Johann Sebastian Bach - correct answer German and considered one of the greatest composers in all of music. Kapellmeister at the court in Kothen, Germany; religious man, having 20 children in total-many of them became notable composers. He mastered nearly every style, form and genre (except opera) in the period. Johann Pachelbel - correct answer German composer who was J.S. Bach's older brother's music teacher; organist, composed over 500 pieces; famous for Canon in D. Johann Pachelbel - correct answer Mrs. Davis' FAVORITE composer from the Baroque period The Birth of Tonality - correct answer One of the most important developments in Baroque time period. Using chords and harmonies, replacing the church modes from the Medieval time period Tonality - correct answer harmony created when writing music that fits within a major or minor key. Also defined as the attraction, or pull, to the tonic. Chord - correct answer three or more different notes being played at the same time. Ornamentation - correct answer Melody decorated by the addition of extra notes--think of it as embellishment. 'baroque' - correct answer something is extravagant and/or complex BONUS...barroco - correct answer Portuguese word which means 'misshapen pearl', and where we get our term Baroque History-Galileo Galilei - correct answer discovers the moons of Jupiter History-Isaac Newton - correct answer publishes 'Principia', outlining the laws of motion and concept of gravity