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Handel’s Messiah is an example of ______. |
an oratorio |
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Some of Vivaldi’s instrumental concertos were arranged by ______. |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
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The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and ______. |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
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A bass part together with numbers that specify the chords to be played above it is called ______. |
figured bass |
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Which of the following about Vivaldi’s La Primavera (Spring) from The Four Seasons is true? |
The piece is an example of program music. |
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A sung piece, or choral work with or without vocal soloists, usually with orchestral accompaniment, is the ______. |
cantata |
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Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no ______. |
acting, scenery, or costumes |
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A musical ornament consisting of the rapid alternation of two tones that are a whole or half step apart is a ______. |
trill |
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The middle baroque period spanned the years ______. |
1640-1690 |
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The members of the Camerata wanted the vocal line of their music to follow ______. |
the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech |
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The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by ______. |
repeated rhythmic patterns |
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Congregational singing of chorales was an important way for people to ______. |
participate directly in the service |
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Baroque style flourished in music during the period ______. |
1600-1750 |
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____________ is a musical procedure in which a fugue subject is imitated before it is completed. |
stretto |
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A large court during the baroque period might employ about ____________ performers. |
80 |
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In their use of aria, duet, and recitative, Bach’s cantatas closely resembled the ____________ of the time. |
operas |
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Vivaldi was famous and influential as a virtuoso ______. |
violinist |
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A ____________ is a single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while the other voices produce a series of changing harmonies against it. |
pedal point |
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In Italy, music schools were often connected with ______. |
orphanages |
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Bach’s personal musical style was drawn from ______. |
All answers are correct. |
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Affections in baroque usage refers to what? |
Emotional states or moods of music |
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Vivaldi wrote approximately ____________ concerti grossi and solo concertos. |
450 |
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The principal means of musical expression in the Lutheran service was the ______. |
church cantata |
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Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas was originally written to be performed by ______. |
students at a girls’ boarding school |
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Why is Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 unusual? |
It gives a solo role to the harpsichord. |
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____________ refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech. |
Recitative |
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A sonata to be played at court, and therefore dancelike in character, was called a ______. |
sonata da camera |
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Baroque melodies often are ______. |
elaborate and ornamental |
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Which of the following statements is not true? |
The trio sonata usually involved three performers, two on high instruments and one on a bass line. |
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The solo instruments in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are the ____________, violin, and harpsichord. |
flute |
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Baroque painters exploited their materials to expand the potential of ____________ to create totally structured worlds. |
All answers are correct. |
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What are embellishments? |
Ornamental tones not printed in the music that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century performers were expected to add to the melody. |
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An ____________ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work. |
overture |
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What is one characteristic often found in baroque melodies? |
A short opening phrase followed by a longer phrase with an unbroken flow of rapid notes |
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A ____________ is a singer with a very low range and powerful voice, who usually takes roles calling for great dignity. |
basso profundo |
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A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called a/an ______. |
aria |
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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 |
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In the baroque period, the ordinary citizen’s opportunities for hearing music usually came from the ______. |
church |
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All of the following were baroque painters except ______. |
Isaac Newton |
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George Frideric Handel was born in 1685, the same year as ______. |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
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The early baroque period spanned the years ______. |
1600-1640 |
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Corelli’s Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op. 3, No. 10, is scored for ______. |
two violins and basso continuo |
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The first opera house in Europe to offer entry to anyone with the price of admission opened in 1637 in ______. |
Venice |
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All of the following were major baroque composers except ______. |
Pierluigi da Palestrina |
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A ____________ is a singer with a low range who usually takes comic roles. |
basso buffo |
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The earliest opera that has been preserved is Jacopo Peri’s ______. |
Euridice |
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Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, was a ______. |
All answers are correct. |
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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. |
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During the baroque period, _________ were not allowed to be employed as music directors. |
women |
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Oratorios first appeared in ______. |
Italy |
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Sections of an oratorio are usually connected together by means of ______. |
a narrator’s recitatives |
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The first oratorios were based on ______. |
stories from the bible |
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A type of polyphonic composition based on one main theme is a ______. |
fugue |
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Handel is associated with the __________ period. |
Late Baroque |
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The word baroque has at various times meant all of the following except ______. |
naturalistic |
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The position of the composer during the baroque period was that of ______. |
a high-class servant with few personal rights |
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Vivaldi spent most of his life working at an institution for orphaned and illegitimate girls in ______. |
Venice |
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The Lutheran chorale tunes ______. |
All of the answers are correct. |
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The main theme of a fugue is called the ______. |
subject |
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Very often an independent fugue is introduced by a short piece called a(n) _______. |
prelude |
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The early and late baroque periods differed in that composers in the late baroque ______. |
favored polyphonic texture |
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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 |
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Which of the following about Vivaldi’s La Primavera (Spring) from The Four Seasons is true? |
The piece is an example of program music. |
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The sonata originated in ______. |
Italy |
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Composers in the middle baroque phase favored writing compositions for instruments of the ____________ family. |
string |
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The various dances of the baroque suite are usually ______. |
in AABB form |
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Turning the subject of a fugue upside down, or reversing the direction of each interval, is called ______. |
inversion |
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Where did Handel’s Messiah receive its premiere? |
Ireland |
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In the baroque era, dynamics consisted mainly of sudden alterations between loud and soft called ______. |
terraced dynamics |
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To what does the word movement in music normally refer? |
A piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition |
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