sgq III-1_III-8
the music director of a court in the baroque period
a. supervised and directed the musical performances, organized the musical library b. composed much of the required music repaired the instruments when needed c. was responsible for the discipline of the other musicians, taught and supervised the children d. all statements in this question are true
tutti
The larger group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the ___
Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel
The two musical giants of the baroque period were ___ and ___
contrasts
a concerto grosso ___ a smaller group of performers against a larger group of performers
countersubject
a different, contrasting melodic idea that often accompanies the subject of a fugue is called a
eighty
a large court during the baroque period might employ more than ___ musicians
movement
a section that sounds fairly complete and independent but that is actually part of a larger composition is called a
pedal tone
a single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while the other voices or tones produce a series of changing harmonies against it
spread from italy to practically every country in europe
by the middle of the baroque period, the baroque musical style had
orphanages
in italy, music schools were often connected with
church
in the baroque period, if you weren't a friend of the king, or an aristocrat your opportunities to hear fine music were mainly confined to the
early baroque
one of the most revolutionary periods in music history was the
opera
play, set to music and sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action
basso buffo
singer with a low range who usually takes comic or otherwise humorous roles
terraced dynamics
the alternation between soft and loud dynamics during the baroque period is called
chiaroscuro
the art term which describes an essential element of all Baroque music which is the contrast between light and dark is
polyphonic
the basic musical texture of a fugue is
libretto
the book or text upon which an opera is based is called the
major and minor
the earlier medieval church modes which had been used for centuries gradually gave away to the ___ and ___ scales in the middle baroque
homophonic texture
the early baroque favored
ritornello
the first and last movements of a concerto grosso are often in ___ form
subject
the main theme or melody of a fugue is called a/an
super numeraries
the people on the opera stage who do not sing, but carry spears or other props, fill out crowds, drink wine, or do other things that add to the overall effect of the opera
flute, violin, harpsichord
the solo instruments in the smaller group of bach's brandenburg concerto no.5 1st movement are the ___, ___, and ___
episode
transitional sections of a fugue that offer either new material or fragments of the subject or countersubjects
fast, slow, fast
A concerto grosso usually has three movements that contrast in tempo as well as style and are usually presented as ___, ___, and ____