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(1567-1643) An important figure in two musical periods, he is an important madrigal composer in the Renaissance style and he composed the first masterpiece of opera, Orfeo, in 1607.

In opera, a piece for solo voice and orchestra accompaniment that reflects on the actions within a dramatic scene that requires emotional comment. The opportunity within an opera for the beautiful reflective song.

This document, authored by Thomas Jefferson, sought to separate America from British rule.  

This Classical composer had a miserable childhood under an abusive father, moved to Vienna, composed just 9 symphonies, and went deaf before his death in 1827.

This classical composer was a prodigy who played the piano, wrote 40 symphonies, numerous operas and other works but died at the age of 35.

A multiple movement form with a standardized three-movement design, fast, slow, fast, which uses a group of soloists pitted against an accompanying orchestra group for the purpose of virtuosic display for a group of instrumental soloists. Popular with the public in the Baroque period.

What are the three primary elements of Beethoven’s style highlighted in the textbook and the chapter summary?

A technique of solo singing with free rhythm and simple accompaniment created by Jacopo Peri to replace recitation of text in his attempt to recreate the fabled pathos of Greek tragedies in his early Baroque operas.

An aria designed to showcase the individual singer’s performance skill through opportunities to improvise and ornament the aria melody in a repeat of the initial theme now played by the orchestra alone.

A genre similar to oratorio but differing in the limitation of its libretto to the story of the life of Jesus beginning with his return to Jerusalem, through the crucifixion and resurrection.