Music Appreciation Test 3

The era known as the Baroque period was from:

1475-1600

What was the size of a typical orchestra during the Baroque era?

20

Which series of letters illustrates the structure of a da capo aria

A,B,A

What did the inventors of early opera think they were reviving?

Ancient Greek drama

What is the term for a small ensemble that furnished a foundation for the melody or melodies of a composition, requires at least two instrumentalists, and occurs almost exclusively in Baroque music.

Basso continuo

What sets "simple reactive" apart from other types of recitative?

Basso continuo

The 3 parts

Birth Death/Resurrection 2nd coming, New Jerusalem

What other genre did Bach frequently incorporate into his cantatas

Chorale

The idea that different musical moods could and should be used to influence the emotions of the listener is known as:

Doctrine of Affections

Which combination of words best describes Baroque art and music

Dramatic and grandious

In the context of a fugue, the exposition is an introductory-like passage that gives the performer a chance to warm up and sets the stage for the more substantive section hat follows

False

This composer began his career with the primary goal of composing operas, was employed in the homes of the aristocracy, became financially successful during his life and after his death became a national institution of his adopted country.

Handel

Monody

Is a genre that was prominent during the early Baroque. It consists of few instruments that accompany a solo singer performing a song based on a highly charged, emotional text.

Identify the incorrect statement regarding the fugue

It is not homophonic

Why is Orfeo significant in the history of European music?

It is the first true example

Bach

Learned to compose music by stufying the works of Vivaldi, Pachelbel, and Palestrina. He also learned to okah the organ, in part by emulating others, and soon became the most renowned organ virtuoso in Germany

The term that best describes the repetition of a musical notice as successively higher or lower degrees of the scale is

Melodic sequence

Which Italian musician is considered the creator of opera? His career as a performer and composer was spent in the Italian cities of Cremona, Mantua, and Venice.

Monteverdi

Why did Hanel find the oratorio a financially viable alternative to composing operas

No sets and costumes, loved coral music, and didn't offend the choral people

What emotionally powerful genre of music emerged in Western Europe during the Baroque era

Opera

The librettos of this genre usually chronicled the triumphs and tragedies of historical or mythological monarchs and deities, thereby appealing to the wealthy and politically powerful aristocracy

Opera seria

This genre, intended for entertainment as well as spiritual edification, makes no use of acting, costumes, or staging

Oratorio

Which composer has been called the "greatest of all English composers," a title to which only one the pop songwriter Paul McCartney can plausibly challenge.

Purcell

What social purpose did performances of Handel's Messiah serve during the eighteenth century

Raise funds for charity

. Musically heightened speech that relates the action or dramatic narrative to the audience is called_________. The text is usually in prose rather than poetic meter and the musical setting mirrors the natural rhythms of everyday speech.

Recitative

Which from did the Baroque composers typically use in the fast first movement of a concerto grosso

Ritornellomouse form

Identify the trait that best describes the church cantata.

Solo singer and small accompanying orchestra - sacred - multi-movement All of the above

Which term describes the sharp, about dynamic contrasts found in the music of the Baroque era

Terraced dynamics

Which genre of composition consists of two sections; the first in a slow, majestic duplex meter with stately dotted rhythms, while the contrasting second section features a fast triple meter in an imitative style

The French overture

Which genre is a polyphonic work for multiple parts (called voices) the alternates presentations of the subject with passages of free counterpoint

The fugue

Which instrumental family forms the core of wound in the Western classical orchestra

The strings family

Identify the instrument that dominates the sound of Baroque orchestra and contributed to the rising popularity of instrumental music

The violin family

What is the term for an instrumental showpiece that typically demands great technical dexterity on the part of the performer?

Toccata

The Baroque genres of the solo concerto and concerto gross and virtually identical, with the exception that the letter features multiple soloists rather than one

True

The concerto was to the Baroque era what the symphony would later become to the Classical period: the most popular and important genre of orchestral music

True

The original meaning of the term "Baroque" had a negative connotation, signifying distortion, excess, and extravagance

True

This composer, who was born and raised in Venice, was also an ordained priest as well as a Virtuoso violinist. During his career he was engaged to teach music for a girls orphanage, the Hospice of Mercy, and wrote many solo concertos for the all-female orchestra

Vivaldi

Which composition, commissioned as public entertainment for rich and powerful members of society, received such a warm reception upon its premiere that the king requested to hear in three times in one night

Water music

A passage of free, non-imitative counterpoint found in a fugue is known as:

an episode

This singing style expresses feeling or emotion rather than narrating the drama's action. All or part of the orchestra, including the basso continuo, accompanies the singer.

aria

In addition to the three-part canon in Pachelbel's Canon in D, what other musical technique contributes to its appeal

basso ostinato

Which term is synonymous with "Ground bass"?

basso ostinato

A spiritual melody or religious folksong of the Lutheran Church is known as:

chorale

The soloists in a concerto grosso constitute a subgroup called the:

concertino

Water Music is an example of the:

dance suite

What is the numerical shorthand in music that tells the player which unwritten notes to fill in above the written bass note?

figured bass

Which Baroque genre opens with a section called the "exposition"?

fugue

The most common basso continuo group was the:

harpsichord and low string instrument

The manner of composing for instruments that exploits the strengths, special abilities, and color of a particular instrument or voice while avoiding its weaknesses is known as:

idiomatic writing

The dramatic text that composers set to music in an opera, oratorio, or cantata is called:

libretto

Which genre of composition is a dramatic work in which the actors sing some or all of their parts and features elaborate costumes and stage sets

opera

Which instrument is most suited for playing polyphonic counterpoint

organ

A melody, harmony, or rhythm that repeats continually throughout a musical composition is called:

ostinato

A note, usually in the bass, that is sustained (or repeated) for a period of time while harmonies change around it is called:

pedal point

The theme in a fugue is called the:

subject

Which trait best describes the color of the late Baroque orchestra?

violin, harpsichord, and organ set the tone for the era