Music appreciation

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Which of the following are contrapuntal devices that alter the original theme of a fugue?

All answers shown here (augmentation, retrograde and diminution)

The Baroque suite is characterized by which of the following?

All answers shown here (it consists of a series of dance movements, each movement is a dance type from a different country, and the movements have contrasts of tempo and character

What would listeners hear in a typical Bach chorale?

All of the above (Intricate choral movements, simple, hymn-like setting and solo arias

Which of the following institution(s) supported music in Renaissance society?

All of the above (the church, the city and state, and the aristocratic courts)

The Baroque suite included a German dance called a(n)

Allemande

Which of the following dance types were standard in a Baroque suite?

Allemande, sarabande, courante

Which of the following does NOT represent the thinking of the Renaissance?

An exclusively religious orientation

Who wrote The Well-Tempered Clavier?

Bach

The bassoon became associated with a somber mood during the

Baroque

What was the first book published in North America?

Bay Psalm Book

Which of the following doe NOT describe life in the medieval cloister?

Being at the center of trade and commerce

Which composer claimed that "the text should be the master of the music, not the servant?"

Claudio Monterverdi

Luther believed that music belonged to the

Congregation

A "natural instrument" was one that

Could play all keys

What is the primary element of fugue?

Counterpoint

Which part of the Mass Ordinary includes the text "I believe in one God, the Father Almighty"?

Credo

What is the name of Purcell's 1869 opera based on Virgil's Aeneid?

Dido and Aenas

The prayer of praise at the end of the Magnificat is called the

Doxology

Handel's oratorio Messiah is sung in

English

The opening section of a fugue, in which all voices successively introduce the subjects called

Exposition

The group of early Baroque writers, artists, and musicians whose aim was to resurrect the musical drama of Ancient Greece was known as the

Florentine Camerta

A concerto is an instrumental

Form based on the opposition between two dissimilar bodies of sound

Where was Handel born?

Germany

Who composed Water Music?

Handel

The _____ is a keyboard instrument whose strings are plucked by quills

Harpsichord

What is the texture of of Billings's David's Lamentation?

Homophonic with solos and duets

A setting in which all voices move together rhythmically is called

Homorhythmic

Musical ideas exchanged between vocal lines is called

Imitation

What best describes the texture of ideal renaissance sacred music?

Imitative

The Alla hornpipe movement from Water Music is characterized by

Instrumental groups exchanging motivic ideas

Where was the concerto first developed?

Italy

Which religious practices influenced the early Christian church?

Judaism

What was the primary language of the Mass?

Latin

Nahum Tate was the ___________ of Purcell's Dido and Aenas

Librettist

Barbara Strozzi's secular arias focus on the theme of

Love

The reenactment of Christ's last supper with his disciples is called the

Mass

A text setting with many notes set to a syllable is called

Melismatic

What are the solfeggi syllables used by the New England colonies?

Mi-fa-so-la

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani served as abbess and priories of St. Radegunda in

Milan

What is the basic texture of the practice of lining out?

Monophonic

Josquin's Ave Maria... virgo serena is an example of

Motet

Polyphony required the development of

Music notation

Which of the following was an important scientist in the Baroque era?

Newton

Where was William Billings born?

North America

The preeminent composers of motets from early Renaissance were from what part of Europe?

Northern

Which cathedral became one of the first centers in which polyphony was noted and integrated into worship?

Notre Dame, Paris

Johann Sebastian Bach was most famous in his day as a performer on the

Organ

How many violin concertos did Vivaldi compose?

Over 230

Bach built Wachet auk on a hymn written by

Phillip Nicolai

The ________ is an end-blown flute with a breathy tone.

Recorder

Why is Renaissance painting considered to be more realistic than medieval painting?

Renaissance painters explored perspective, which made it possible to depict visual depth

The opening movement of Spring, From the Four Seasons, is in ________ form.

Ritornello

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani was a nun at the convent of

St. Radegonde

Overlapping statements of the fugue subject, which heighten tension, is called

Stretto

Which percussion instruments often accompanied the civic wind band?

Tabor and nakers

Why was the art music of the Middle Ages predominantly religious?

The church patronized music extensively

A ritornello form in a concerto is typically found in

The first and third movements

Depending on the feast celebrated, which portion of mass changes from day to day?

The proper

What do Stradvarius, Guarneri, and Amati have in common?

They were all instrument makers

Which well-known printer and musician published one of the most popular dance collections of the sixteenth century?

Tielman Susan

Which performers of secular music were associated with Northern France?

Trouvères

Another term for the language of the people is

Vernacular

During which service does the Magnificat occur?

Vespers

What is The New England Psalm- singer?

William Billing's best known publication

The cornet is best described as a(n)

Wooden instrument with fingerholes like a recorder but a cup-shaped mouthpiece

"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion" from Messiah is an example of

a da capo aria

What is a ritornello?

an instrumental refrain in an aria

Bach's cantatas typically include _______ movements

five to eight

Which of the following characterizes the "Hallelujah Chorus"?

homophonic passages

Handel and Bach were both born in Germany during the same year, and

never met

Dido's Lament from Purcell's opera Dido andAeneas is composed

over a ground bass

An opera is a drama that is

sung

The stories for oratorios are generally drawn from

the Bible

A fixed pattern of long and short notes that is repeated or varied is called

A rhythmic mode

English madrigals included refrain syllables such as

"fa la la."


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