Part IV
1. The word baroque has at various times meant all of the following except ______.
A. elaborately ornamented
2. Modern historians use the term baroque to indicate what?
D. A scientific movement popular in the seventeenth century
3. All of the following were baroque painters except ______.
A. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
4. Baroque style flourished in music during the period ______.
A. 1000-1250
5. The baroque style was well suited to the ______.
A. merchants
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Feedback: The baroque style was very well suited to the wishes of the aristocracy, who matched their desire for luxury to the
elaborate and ornamented structures of baroque art.
6. The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and ______.
A. Georges Handel Bach
D. Arcangelo Corelli
8. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Baroque art is a complex mixture of rationalism, sensuality, materialism, and spirituality.
9. The early baroque was characterized by ______.
A. elaborate counterpoint
10. The early baroque period spanned the years ______.
A. 1567-1643
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Feedback: The early baroque period lasted from 1600-1640.
11. Monteverdi, an early baroque composer, strove to create music that was ______.
A. difficult to perform
12. The early and late baroque periods differed in that composers in the late baroque ______.
D. favored purely instrumental music
13. The middle baroque was characterized by ______.
A. elaborate counterpoint
14. The middle baroque period spanned the years ______.
15. Composers in the middle baroque phase favored writing compositions for instruments of the ____________ family.
A. brass
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16. By about ____________, major or minor scales were the tonal basis of most compositions.
A. 1500
17. Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ____________ period.
A. Renaissance
18. The late baroque period spanned the years ______.
A. 1567-1643
19. Baroque painters exploited their materials to expand the potential of ____________ to create totally structured worlds.
A. color
20. Affections in baroque usage refers to what?
A. The nobility’s manner of deportment
21. A baroque musical composition usually expresses ____________ within the same movement.
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A. one basic mood
B. a wide variety of moods
C. constantly changing moods
D. All answers are correct.
22. 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.
A. basso continuo
23. The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by ______.
A. a bawdy text
24. Baroque melodies often are ______.
D. short and simple
25. Baroque melodies give the impression of ______.
A. balance and symmetry
26. Melodic sequence refers to ______.
A. a composition by Vivaldi
27. What is one characteristic often found in baroque melodies?
A. One long continuous phrase with long sustained notes
28. To what does terraced dynamics refer?
A. A gradual change from soft to loud
29. In the baroque era, dynamics consisted mainly of sudden alterations between loud and soft called ______.
A. cantus firmus
30. The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the ______.
A. clavichord
31. A popular keyboard instrument in which sound was produced by means of brass blades striking the strings was the ______.
D. organ
32. The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of ______.
A. gradual dynamic changes
33. A bass part together with numbers that specify the chords to be played above it is called ______.
D. counterpoint
34. The orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the ____________ family.
D. percussion
35. To what does the word movement in music normally refer?
A. Music for the ballet
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Feedback: In music, the use of the word movement is meant to describe a piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is
part of a larger composition.
36. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. A large court during the baroque might employ more than eighty performers, including the finest opera singers of the day.
37. A large court during the baroque period might employ about ____________ performers.
A. 18
38. The music director of a baroque court was usually not responsible for ______.
A. supervising and directing the musical performances
39. Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, was a ______.
A. flutist
40. The position of the composer during the baroque period was that of ______.
41. In the baroque period, the ordinary citizen’s opportunities for hearing music usually came from the ______.
42. In Italy, music schools were often connected with ______.
D. universities
43. During the baroque period, _________ were not allowed to be employed as music directors.
A. sons of musicians
44. A concerto grosso most often has ____________ movement(s).
A. one
45. The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the ______.
A. concertino
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Learning Objective: Discuss the baroque concerto grosso form and ritornello form
Topic: Concerto
Feedback: The tutti is a large group of players that contrast with a smaller group in a concerto grosso.
46. The concerto grosso most often has three movements whose tempo markings are ______.
D. slow, slow, fast
47. The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in ____________ form.
A. theme and variations
49. The solo instruments in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are the ____________, violin, and harpsichord.
A. trumpet
50. Why is Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 unusual?
A. It consists of a single movement.
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51. A musical ornament consisting of the rapid alternation of two tones that are a whole or half step apart is a ______.
D. wobble
52. A type of polyphonic composition based on one main theme is a ______.
A. subject
53. The main theme of a fugue is called the ______.
A. answer
54. When the subject of a fugue is presented in the dominant scale, it is called the ______.
D. stretto
55. In many fugues, the subject in one voice is constantly accompanied in another voice by a different melodic idea called a(n)
______.
A. answer
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56. ____________ is a musical procedure in which a fugue subject is imitated before it is completed.
A. Augmentation
57. A ____________ is a single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while the other voices produce a series of changing
harmonies against it.
D. basso ostinato
58. Turning the subject of a fugue upside down, or reversing the direction of each interval, is called ______.
D. countersubject
59. Presenting the subject of a fugue from right to left, or beginning with the last and proceeding backward to the first note, is
called ______.
A. inversion
60. Presenting the subject of a fugue in shortened time values is called _______.
A. inversion
61. Very often an independent fugue is introduced by a short piece called a(n) _______.
A. overture
62. An ____________ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.
A. overture
63. The text, or book, of a musical dramatic work is called the ______.
A. form
64. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Voice categories in opera are divided more finely than in other musical genres.
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singing about their feelings, thoughts, etc. whereas a chorus is comprised of background people who create a general atmosphere
and comment on the action.
65. A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called a/an ______.
D. stretto
66. ____________ refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech.
A. Aria
67. A ____________ is a singer with a low range who usually takes comic roles.
68. A ____________ is a singer with a very low range and powerful voice, who usually takes roles calling for great dignity.
D. lyric tenor
69. A(n) ____________ is a musical number for two solo voices with orchestral accompaniment.
A. aria
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Feedback: A duet is a piece for two solo singers, with orchestral accompaniment. An ensemble involves three or more singers.
70. A(n) ____________ is an operatic number involving three or more leading singers.
71. The ____________ is the person who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians, and controls the balance among
instruments and voices.
A. prima donna
72. An ____________ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work.
D. opening
73. Members of the Camerata wanted to create a new vocal style based on the ______.
D. polyphonic madrigal
74. The members of the Camerata wanted the vocal line of their music to follow ______.
A. standard rules of musical theory
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75. Most early baroque operas were based on Greek mythology and ______.
A. contemporary political events
76. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Most early baroque operas were based on Greek mythology and ancient history.
77. The first opera house in Europe to offer entry to anyone with the price of admission opened in 1637 in ______.
A. Hamburg
78. The earliest opera that has been preserved is Jacopo Peri’s ______.
D. Arsace
79. The stage machinery of baroque opera _______.
A. was very primitive
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80. Castrati ______.
A. received the highest fees of any musicians
81. Today, a ______ often sings a castrato part in baroque opera.
D. baritone
82. Which statement is true about opera in Venice?
A. It was only for the aristocracy.
83. What are embellishments?
D. Obsolete in contemporary performances.
84. Monteverdi spent the greater part of his career in ______.