Final exam 2008-5
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- Hamburg
- Handel moved here at age 18 in Northern Germany.
- Northern Germany
- Composers of music for the Lutheran church during the Baroque came from and worked primarily in this geographic area
- Piano Forte
- an instrument invented by Bartolommeo Cristofori about 1709, which is not an important instrument in the Baroque.
- Handel's Messiah
- the best known oratorio in the history of music.
- Italy
- Handel's studies here provided more immediate preparation for his career in London.
- Italian Opera
- This genre provided the main reason for Handel's move to London.
- Royal Academy of Music
- Handel's opera compay, one of two producing Italian opera in eighteenth-century London.
- Coronation Anthems
- Zadok the Priest is one of the four anthems composed for King George II
- Chapentier
- composed 11 masses including the popular Messe de minuit pour noel.
- Basilica
- a special, grand church that happens not to be a cathedral (not the seat of a bishop). St Peter's in Rome is an example.
- Samson
- Handel's oratorio is based on a literary work by John Milton.