music app quiz

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-Shakespeare, Hamlet -Cervantes, Don Quixote -Rubens, Adoration of the Shepherds -Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes -Bernini, David Slaying Goliath -Poussin The Arcadian Shepherds -Rembrandt, Self-Portrait -Milton, Paradise Lost -Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding -Watteau, The Embarkation for Cythera -Defoe, Robinson Crusoe -Swift, Gulliver's Travels

Coloratura soprano Lyric soprano Dramatic soprano Lyric tenor dramatic tenor basso buffo basso profondo

-Very high range; can execute rapid scales and trills -Rather light voice; sings roles calling for grace and charm -Full, powerful voice; is capable of passionate intensity -Relatively light, bright voice -Powerful voice; is capable of heroic expression Takes comic roles; can sing very rapidly -Very low range, powerful voice; takes roles calling for great dignity

Organ Fugue in G Minor (Little Fugue; c. 1709), by Johann Sebastian Bach

-for the announcement of the fugue subject in the highest voice, followed by polyphonic imitation of the subject in successively lower voices. Notice when the subject is presented in a major key, instead of a minor key, in 3.a. and c. -ORGANNN -Fugue, quadruple meter , G minor

"Alleluia: Vidimus stellam" (We Have Seen His Star)

ABA- ternary form Gregorian Chant Latin language Many notes per syllable of text monophonic texture middle age

The sonata consists of four short movements:

Fast Fast Slow Fast

Tu se' morta from Orfeo, by Claudio Monteverdi

Homophobic Rhythmically free vocal line use of text painting on low tone for abissi (abysses) basso continuo accompaniment

Which of the following statements is not true? Voice categories in opera are divided more finely than in other musical genres. Operas may contain spoken dialogue, but most are sung entirely. Opera soloists must create a wide variety of characters, and so need acting skills as well as vocal artistry. In opera, the terms ensemble and chorus are synonymous.

In opera, the terms ensemble and chorus are synonymous.

Passamezzo & Galliard by caroubel

Renaissance dance music Dances frequently played in pairs -Passamezzo in duple meter (a a' b b' c c') -Galliard in triple meter (a a' b b' c c' a' b' c') Pairing contrasting court dances in duple and triple meter/written for 5 unspecified instruments/3 brief sections

PURCELL, Dido's Lament, from Dido and Aeneas; 1689

Secco recitative followed by aria aria makes use of ground bass chromatically descending bass(basso ostinato) used to indicate grief

Common basic forms

Ternary ABA binary AB AAB ABB AABB

Which of the following statements is not true? Most early baroque operas were based on Greek mythology and ancient history. The members of the Florentine Camerata based their theories on actual dramatic music that had come down to them from the Greeks. The members of the Florentine Camerata wanted to create a new vocal style modeled on the music of ancient Greek tragedy. Polyphony was rejected by the members of the Florentine Camerata because different words sounding simultaneously would obscure the text.

The members of the Florentine Camerata based their theories on actual dramatic music that had come down to them from the Greeks.

Estampie

a rebec (a bowed string instrument) and a pipe (a tubular wind instrument) repeated notes at the interval of a fifth, played on a psaltery

A ____________ is a singer with a low range who usually takes comic roles. tenor basso buffo basso profundo buffoon

basso buffo

A _____ is a singer with a very low range and powerful voice, who usually takes roles calling for great dignity tenor basso buffo basso profundo lyric tenor

basso profundo

La Primavera (Spring), Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 8, No. 1, from The Four Seasons (1725) 2nd movement- largo e pianissimo sempre (very slow and very slow throughout)

concerto for violin and string orchesta orchestra reduced to only violins and violas descriptive effects (violas : 'dogs barking')

La Primavera (Spring), Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 8, No. 1, from The Four Seasons (1725) 1st movement- allegro

concerto for violin and string orchesta polyphonic and ritornello form baroque program music descriptive effects

La Primavera (Spring), Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 8, No. 1, from The Four Seasons (1725) 3rd movement- Danza pastorale (pastoral dance)

concerto for violin and string orchesta ritornello from alternates solo and tutti sections descriptive effects (sustained notes in low strings to imitate bagpipes)

Today, a ______ often sings a castrato part in baroque opera. countertenor basso profundo basso buffo baritone

countertenor

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major (c. 1721), by Johann Sebastian Bach

first movement: allegro -for string orchestra and group of soloists -soloists: flute, violin, harpsichord

Claudio Monteverdi

first opera (creator)- OFERO, ORPHEUS

Prelude in E Minor for Piano, Op. 28, No. 4 (1839), by Frédéric Chopin

harmony expressivo Largo, Duple meter , E minor piano -pulsating dissonant harmonies that add tension to a melody that obsessively alternates between two notes.

Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho

is a tune based on a minor scale:

Corelli's Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op. 3, No. 10,

is written for two violins and basso continuo. The violins play the two upper lines in the same high register and are the center of attention; they seem to be rivals, taking turns at the melodic ideas, intertwining, and sometimes rising above each other in pitch. The basso continuo is for organ and cello or theorbo (bass lute), a plucked string instrument that is capable of producing chords as well as the bass line.

drone

long, sustained tone or tones accompanying a melody

MACHAUT, Puis qu'en oubli (Since I am forgotten by you); c. 1363 by- Guillaume de Machaut

melancholy feel rondeau from 8 lines ab aa ab ab Syncopation interpretation- 3 noted lines, 1 text

Melody harmony

melody- horizontal harmony - vertical

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____________ of his day. organist composer violinist cellist

organist

An ____________ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work. overture aria opera opening

overture

A Chantar (I Must Sing), by Beatriz, Countess of Dia (Late Twelfth Century)

pen and closed endings and for the climax in phrase d. ABABCDB MONOPHONIC single melodic line

MACHAUT, Agnus Dei from Notre Dame Mass; mid-fourteenth century

polyphonic - 4 voices ABA solo voices,

Very often an independent fugue is introduced by a short piece called a(n) _______. overture prelude concerto pedal point

prelude

The members of the Camerata wanted the vocal line of their music to follow ______. standard rules of musical theory the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech the lines of contrapuntal writing set metrical and melodic patterns

the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech

Vivaldi was famous and influential as a virtuoso ______. harpsichordist opera singer lutenist violinist

violinist

O successores, by Hildegard of Bingen

vv1098 - 1179 larger pitch range wider leaps greater feeling of motion toward a climax near the end. for the climactic highest tone of the melody on the word officio, in the service, and the long melodic descent on the word agni.