Question 1

Besides music, the Baroque era saw the rise or...

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Drama...Theater, painting, architecture, and music.

Question 2

The greatest master of the early period of baroque music was:

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Claudio Monteverdi.

Question 3

Two styles of music that flourished in the baroque time period were:

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the old (stile antico) & the new (stile moderno).

Question 4

The lowest part composed in most baroque compositions is:

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The basso continuo.

Question 5

The use of tempo & dynamic markings in the Baroque music era reflected:

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the composers' concerns with heightening the emotional content of their music.

Question 6

The baroque saw the decline of the ____ & the ______as the primary benefactors of musical life.

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Church & Aristocracy, though they were still important.

Question 7

During the Baroque, Operas, which were invented as entertainment for the private elite, became public in...

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1643.

Question 8

Opera is defined as:

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drama with music

Question 9

Renaissance plays made use of musical interludes between acts called

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Intermezzi.

Question 10

The text of an Opera is called:

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liberetto.

Question 11

Formal dances in Opera are called:

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Ballet's.

Question 12

The main developments in Italian Opera were centered, more or less consecutively in four Italian Cities:

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Florence, Rome, Venice and Naples.

Question 13

In the last decade of the 16th Century, the Florintine "Camerata" sought to revive(through opera)____

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Ancient Greek Tragedies.

Question 14

The most important opera composer in the first half of the 17th century was:

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Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Composer of "Orfeo" 1607. His music is the first from which there is a clear division between aria and recitative.

Question 15

Roman opera (1630's)was based more on :

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Religious subjects than on Greek mythology, and more use of choruses.

Question 16

Principal composers of Roman Opera were:

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Landi(Santo Alessio) & Rossi(Another Orfeo)

Question 17

Shortly befor he middle of the century,_____ assumed the leadership (in opera) that it would retain to the end of the century.

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Venice.

Question 18

Talk characteristics of Venetian Opera

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more emphasis on formal aria's.Beginning of "Bel Canto" singing style.Less use of Choral/Orchestral music.COmplex Plots.fanfarelike instrumental introductions.

Question 19

Bel Canto means...

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Beautiful Singing.

Question 20

Name a composer of the Venetian school.

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Cavalli, who wrote Giasone.

Question 21

Neapolitan Opera (Naples) was last and dominated European Opera in...

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the early 18th Century.

Question 22

Talk Neapolitan Opera

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Consisted mainly of De Capo Aria's.Siciliana, in slow tempo,6/8 meter, and usually in a minor key. Castrati(male sorpranos) were the opera stars of the day.

Question 23

The Italian overture,_____ was established as a formal plan in three sections, fast-slow-fast.

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Sinfonia, The sinfonia was the forerunner of the later classical symphony.

Question 24

The central figure of Neapolitan Opera was was:

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Alessandro Scarlotti (1660-1725) who composed 114 operas.

Question 25

______devloped an indigenous opera to a greater extent than any other country outside of Italy, but not until the the 2nd half of the 17th Century.

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France.

Question 26

Talk French Ballet...

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Use of ballet,Greater importance of drama, more use of orchestra/instrumental music, careful attention to accentuation of text, less emphasis on virtuosity, the french overture which became an important form in the Baroque.

Question 27

Define Ballet

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Dramatized dances with costume and scenery, but without singing or spoken dialogue.

Question 28

Name composers of the French style of Opera

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Lully(Armide) & Rameau (Castor et Pollux).

Question 29

The most important English composer of the middle Baroque was:

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Henry Purcell (1659-1695) (Dido and Aeneas)

Question 30

Comic Opera emerged in the early____primarly as a reaction to Italian serious Opera.

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18th Century. Topics were lighter and used elements of humor, parody, and satire.

Question 31

The two types of vocal chamber music that flourished in the baroque were:

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Solo songs & Chamber cantatas, both for chamber types of settings.

Question 32

In the Baroque, the main developments in protestant church music took place in:

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Germany.

Question 33

During the baroque, ____ became as important as ____ for the first time in quality as well as quantity.

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Instrumental Music/Vocal Music.

Question 34

_____,a purely instrumental concept, functioned as a melodic and harmonic device through out baroque music.

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The basso continuo (or throughbass).

Question 35

The basso continuo part was written in the bass clef with numerals and accidentals below the notations, a musical shorthand known as:

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Figured bass.

Question 36

It was the duty of the keyboard player to fill in the harmony dictated by the numerals, a procedure called...

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realizing the figured bass.

Question 37

In the late baroque, _____of keyboard instruments replaced the older methods.

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Equal Tempered Tuning. Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier" with 24 preludes in all major/minor keys was composed to demonstrate the new system of tuning and the equalness of all keys.

Question 38

The three keyboard types of the Baroque era were: the clavichord, harpsichord, and organ.

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the clavichord, harpsichord, and organ.

Question 39

______ invented in 1709 by Cristofari in Florance was not generally used until the late 18th century and virtually no Baroque music was composed for it.

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The Piano.

Question 40

The main string instruments of the baroque era were the:

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Violin family. Violins, violas, and cellos. Amati and Stradivari were the best/most popular makers.

Question 41

Principal wind instruments of the Baroque included:

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oboe, bassoon, and flute. There were various kinds of trumpets, horns, and trombones in large ensembles, but not as solo instruments. Timpani were the only drums in use, and only in large orchestras.

Question 42

The ___ was an imitative form that was popular in the baroque era, each voice introduces a theme, alternating between a subject in the tonic and an answer in the dominate key.

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Fugue. Fugues were often paired with other genre, hence Toccata & Fugue, in D minor.

Question 43

Other variation genres of music in the baroque were the:

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passacaglia, chaconne, and ground.

Question 44

The term ____ was originally used to designate a composition for voices with separate instrumental parts.

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Concerto, which later developed into Concerto Grosso(two or three solo instruments, opposing full orchestra) and solo concerto(one solo instrument and orchestra).

Question 45

two of the Most important instrumental composers of the Baroque period were:

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J.S. Bach and George Frederic Handel. Bach was known for Counterpoint and his many Instrumental works for keyboard.Handel who lived in London was known more for his oratorio's & Opera's.

The Baroque/Comps

Music History

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