In an opera, everything is sung using recitatives and arias, and in a musical, characters have spoken lines in between songs.

At the beginning of an opera, the orchestra plays an instrumental piece known as the ____________

A __________ is a piece for a single instrument or small group of instruments. 

Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons is known as a _____________ which is when a soloist plays against the orchestra.

A new genre, written for large public concerts, was the ___________, a large, multi-movement composition for orchestra, often in four movements

Considering the differences between the Baroque David sculpture and the Renaissance David sculpture, we can see that the Baroque sculpture represents the excessive ornamentation style of the time period, whereas the Renaissance sculpture represents simplicity and calmness.   (1st image in Baroque, 2nd image is Renaissance)  

Johann Sebastian Bach was best known for composing cantatas, which are multi-movement church choir works that involve soloists, choir, and orchestra. Within cantatas are __________ which are spiritual melodies or religious folksongs, of the Lutheran church; hence simple religious melodies to be sung by the congregation.

____________ are multi-movement church choir works that involve soloists, choir, and orchestra. Each one usually lasts for fifteen to thirty minutes.

In opera music, instead of speaking the lines to tell the story, a single individual would sing a melodic line that follows the inflections and rhythms of speech. This is known as a _______________.

The aria ___________ from the opera Turandot is about a prince named Calaf who is betrothed to the cruel princess. If she can guess his name by the next morning, then he will be killed and she can avoid marrying him. If she fails to guess his name, the two must be wed. She declares to her subjects that no one is allowed to sleep in order to guess the name