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Music History
multiple choice questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The dominant figure in music in seventeenth-century France was _____. | Jean-Baptiste Lully |
| The leading musical entertainment at the French court in the first half of the seventeenth century was the _____. | ballet |
| The French opera overture had _____ main contrasting sections. | two |
| _____ developed a thoroughly rationalistic set of conventions for Italian opera seria around 1700. | Apostolo Zeno |
| Recitative supported by the entire ensemble of strings rather than only basso continuo is called _____. | accompagnato |
| A recurring orchestral passage called _____ might be used to unify the structures of both the large-scale Italian opera aria and the concerto movement. | ritornello |
| A(n) _____ was an organ work in which a chorale melody was employed in a single statement as a cantus firmus. | chorale prelude |
| Keyboard composers in _____ often included in their suites movements with characteristic titles rather than merely the names of dances. | France |
| _____ means a passage of rapidly overlapping imitative entries of the subject, often used to increase the climactic effect at the end of a fugue. | stretto |
| A sonata da chiesa was actually a _____. | suite of dances |
| In the middle of the seventeenth century the musical scholar _____ grouped the musical styles of the time into three classifications. | Marco Scacchi |
| _____ included all types of seventeenth-century vocal music except sacred music and opera. | stylus cubicularis |
| The first opeera was composed primarily by _____. | Jacopo Peri |
| The first public opera house opened in _____ in 1637. | Venice |
| The musical structure in which free material unfolds over a repeating bass formula is called _____. | strophic variation |
| The German composer _____ traveled to Venice to become acquainted with the music of Giovanni Gabrieli an dMonteverdi. | Schutz |
| Giacomo Carissimi is regarded as the composer most responsible for the development of the _____. | oratorio |
| The instrumental genre known as the _____ arose when the canzona became fragmented into separate sections or movements. | sonata |
| In the seventeenth century a partita was a(n) _____. | set of variations |
| The first dance movement in a seventeenth-century suite was most commonly a(n) _____. | allemande |
| The philosophical movement that corresponds to the so-called "Baroque" period in art and music was _____. | Rationalism |
| The word _____ generally means overly ornamented, distorted, bizarre, or eccentric. | baroque |
| A _____ is a mood or state of mind; the six basic ones were love, hate, joy, sorrow, wonder, and desire. | passion |
| New aesthetic principles for music were articulated in the late sixteenth century by a group of intellectuals who met in the city of _____. | Florence |
| Vincenzo Galilei recommended that, in order to understand how musical expression should function, composers ought to attend _____. | the theater |
| The musical texture of solo voice with accompaniment by a lute or keyboard instrument is called _____. | monody |
| An Italian strophic song in the early seventeent century was identified as a(n) _____. | aria |
| For his collection of songs published in 1602 as Le nuove musiche, _____ wrote a preface that explained vocal ornamentation and the use of figured bass. | Giulio Caccini |
| Since the beginning of the seventeenth century, the term _____ has implied any use of contrasting voices and/or instruments with separate functions. | concertato |
| The concept of second pratica has to do with the musical style element _____. | harmony |
| Handel spent most of his early twenties in _____, where he mastered the musical style of that country. | Italy |
| In his early years in London, Handel wrote many popular works in the genre of _____, which had not been explored to any great extent by English Baroque composers. | opera seria |
| The Beggar's Opera was the first work in a newly created genre, _____. | ballad opera |
| Pietro Metastasio made his greatest contribution music as a(n) _____. | opera librettist |
| The intermezzo took its plots from the _____, which had been popular for a long time in Italy. | commedia dell'arte |
| When Handel gave up composing operas he turned instead to the _____. | oratorio |
| Handel's oratorios are structured in _____ parts or acts. | three |
| Georg Philipp Telemann worked in the city of Hamburg as a(n) _____. | Kantor |
| As concert master at the court in Weimar, Bach became familiar with the style of _____. | Italian sonatas and concertos |
| One of Bach's greatest achievements was his composition of _____ for performance in Leipzig church services. | sacred concertos |
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