Music 3

The word baroque has at various times meant all of the following except

Naturalistic

Baroque painters exploited their materials to expand the potential of __________ to create totally structured worlds

a) color b) ornament and detail c) depth d) All answers are correct.*

Baroque style flourished in music during the period

1600-1750

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and

Johann Sebastian Bach

The early baroque was characterized by

homophonic texture

Monteverdi, an early baroque composer, strove to create music that was

passionate and dramatic

The early and late baroque periods differed in that composers in the late baroque

favored polyphonic texture

Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ____________ period.

late baroque

A baroque musical composition usually expresses ____________within the same movement.

one basic mood

The baroque principle of ____________ may be temporarily suspended in vocal music when drastic changes of emotion in a text inspires corresponding changes in the music.

unity of mood

The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by

repeated rhythmic patterns

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the

harpsichord

The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of

basso continuo

The word movement in music normally refers to

a piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition

Which of the following statements is not true?

Audiences in the baroque period were most anxious to hear old familiar favorites, and did not care for new music

The music director of a baroque court was usually not responsible for

publicity in reaching an audience

Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, was a

a) flutist. b) general. c) composer. d) All answers are correct. *

In the baroque period, the ordinary citizen’s opportunities for hearing music usually came from the

church

During the baroque period, _________ were not allowed to be employed as music directors.

women

A type of polyphonic composition based on one main theme is a

fugue

The main theme of a fugue is called the

subject

When the subject of a fugue is presented in the dominant scale, it is called the

answer

An ____________ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action

opera

The text, or book, of a musical dramatic work is called the

libretto

A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called a/an

aria

____________ refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech.

Recitative

The ____________ is the person who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians, and controls the balance among instruments and voices.

conductor

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

overture

Most early baroque operas were based on Greek mythology and

ancient history

The first opera house in Europe to offer entry to anyone with the price of admission opened in 1637 in

Venice

Castrati

a) received the highest fees of any musicians. b) combined the lung power of a man with the vocal range of a woman. c) were male singers who had been castrated before puberty. d) All answers are correct. *

In the myth of Orpheus, Orpheus goes to Hades in the hope of bringing ____________ back to life

Eurydice

____________ is a musical idea repeated over and over in the bass while melodies above it constantly change

Basso ostinato

The sonata originated in

Italy

Baroque trio sonatas usually involve ____________

Four performers

Vivaldi spent most of his life working at an institution for orphaned and illegitimate girls in

Venice

Which of the following about Vivaldi’s La Primavera (Spring) from The Four Seasons is true?

The piece is an example of program music.

Of Bach’s twenty children, ____________ went on to become well-known composers

Four children

While at Leipzig, Bach

taught organ and composition, gave recitals, and was often asked to judge the construction of organs

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____________ of his day

Organist

Bach created masterpieces in every baroque form excepT

Opera

Bach’s personal musical style was drawn from

a) Italian concertos. b) French dance pieces. c) German church music. d) All answers are correct. *

Bach achieves unity of mood in his compositions by using

an insistent rhythmic drive.

A two-part collection of preludes and fugues, one in each major and minor key and basic to the repertoire of keyboard players today, is Bach’s

Well-Tempered Clavier.

In Bach’s day, the Lutheran church service lasted about ____________ hour(s)

Four

The ____________ is a Lutheran congregational hymn tune.

chorale

The principal means of musical expression in the Lutheran service was the

church cantata

A large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text, is called a(n)

oratorio

oratorio differs in opera in that it has no

acting, scenery, or costumes

Handel spent the major portion of his life in

England