Music Appreciation Test 3 (Baroque Era)

Baroque style flourished in music during the period ___________

1600-1750

The ___________ is a Lutheran congregational hymn tune

chorale

The earliest opera that has been preserved is Jacopo Peri’s

Euridice

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

oratorio

In their use of aria, duet, and recitative, Bach’s cantatas closely resembled the ____________ of the time

operas

Bach created masterpieces in every baroque form except the

opera

A polyphonic composition based on one main theme is the

fugue

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

overture

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in __________ form

ritornello

A bass part together with numbers (figures) that specify the chords to be played above it is called

figured bass

Sets of dance-inspired instrumental movements are called

suites

Vivaldi was famous and influential as a virtuoso

violinist

The word movement in music normally refers to

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

A Vivaldi concerto usually has _____________ movements

thre

The early baroque was characterized by

homophonic texture

Dido and Aeneas, which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English text, was composed by

Henry Purcell

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

recitative

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and

Johann Sebastian Bach

A baroque musical composition usually expresses _______________ within the same movement

one basic mood

Although Handel wrote a great deal of instrumental music, the core of his huge output consists of English oratorios and Italian

operas

The respect given Henry Purcell by his fellow Englishmen is evidenced by his burial in

Westminster Abbey

The solo instruments in Bach’s Bradenburg Concerto No. 5 are the ___________, violin, and harpsichord

flute

The main theme of a fugue is called the

subject

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

harpsichord

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

libretto

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

opera

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

publicity in reaching an audience

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

Venice

Transitional sections of a fugue that offer either new material or fragments of the subject or countersubjects are called

episodes

A concerto grosso most often has ___________ movement(s)

three

While at Leipzig, Bach

– taught organ and composition, gave recitals, and was often asked to judge the construction of organs – was responsible for the musical education of some 55 students in the St. Thomas schoo – rehearsed, conducted, and usually composed an extended work for chorus, soloists, and orchestra for each Sunday and holiday of the church year

All of the following were major baroque composers except

Wolfgang A. Mozart

Corelli’s Trio Sonata in A Minor, op. 3, no. 10, is scored for

two violins and basso continuo

Terraced dynamics refers to

the sudden alternation from one dynamic level to another

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

passionate and dramatc

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

church

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

favored polyphonic texture

Affections in baroque usage refers to what?

emotional states or moods of music

Baroque melodies often are ____________

elaborate and ornamental

The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of _______________

basso continuo

In Italy, music schools were often connected with ____________

orphanges

The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the ______________

tutti

In many figures, the subject in one voice is constantly accompanied in another voice by a different melodic idea called a(n) _______________

countersubject

Presenting the subject of a fugue from right to left, or beginning with the last and proceeding backward to the first note, is called ___________

retrograde

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

libretto

A sonata intended to be played in church, and therefore dignified and suitable for sacred performance, was called a ____________

sonata da chiesa