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

Congregational hymns which are specific to each Sunday service.

Large scale dramatic genre with a sacred text performed by solos voices, chorus, and orchestra; never staged like opera.

This Baroque genre includes a collection of dances.

Solo instrument or group of soloists set against a larger ensemble.

This instrumental beginning includes bits and pieces from the material to be heard in the main performance.

Multi-movement works with solos, arias, recitatives and choruses all with orchestral accompaniment.

This German born musician/composer built his career around the Italian style opera and later invented the English Oratorio.

Some of the finest violins ever built came from this part of Europe.

Concertos followed this refrain based structure known as...

Lyrical songs, speech like declamations and ensemble numbers

Exceptional talent shown on an instrument.

Instrumental refrains that help bring back certain passages.

This family of instruments was used to "build color" and some of it's members suggested "pastoral scenes.

The Concerto followed this three movement sequence.

The text from which an opera is written.

One of the most significant composers of The Cantata.

Handel's most famous Oratorio.

German, French, Spanish and English Dances used in the Baroque Suite.

Music that mirrors the action described.

This seventeenth century type of entertainment was the predecessor to the opera.

The great instrument of the Baroque Era.

This music was written for the King's barge parties on the Thames River.

The Baroque was set in these to forms.

Violin Virtuoso who composed "The Four Seasons"