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Graduate Music History Review

Study Guide for Exam Two

Define the following terms and be able to relate them to specific composers, pieces, centuries, and
locations (where relevant). This is not a comprehensive list of testable material, but it should get
you started.

Intermedi Ripieno/Concertino Tragdie en musique/

Florentine Camerata Suites/Ordres Tragdie Lyrique
Caccinis Le nuove musiche (P)ACSOG Empfindsamer Stil
Monody Stylized dances Style Galant
Basso Continuo Agrments Lombard Rhythm/Scotch
Figured bass Notes ingales Snap
Prima/Seconda Pratica French Overture Symphony
Aria/recitative Italian Overture London Symphonies
Madrigal Binary form Esterhzy
Sprezzatura Cantata (early & late Sonata form
Cori spezzati Baroque) String Quartet
St. Marks Cathedral Arioso Intermezzo
Sacred Concerto Opera seria Opera buffa
Music and Rhetoric Castrato Singspiel
Solo/Trio Sonatas Da Capo Aria Lorenzo da Ponte
Concerto (grosso & solo) Oratorio Patter aria
Ritornello Doctrine of the Affections Concerto

Sample Essay Questions

* What significant stylistic changes around the turn of the seventeenth-century helped to define
the Baroque style in music? How did these changes come about?
* What was Le nuove musiche? When was it published? Why is it significant? What types of pieces
are included in the collection? Upon what sixteenth-century unwritten practices are they based?
* What was the nature of the aesthetic debate between Monteverdi and Artusi? How did
Monteverdi respond to the criticism?
* What was the Florentine Camerata? Who were some of its members? When did they meet? Why
are they important to the history of Baroque music?
* Provide a relatively detailed analysis of Gabrielis In ecclesiis. What is particularly Baroque
about this piece? Why was it well-suited for its original performing space?
* Compare and contrast Barbara Strozzis cantata LAmante Segreto: Voglio morire to Bachs
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. Be sure to address issues of structure, form, and function.
* Discuss some of the connections between Lutheran doctrine and J.S. Bachs cantata Wachet auf,
ruft uns die Stimme.
* Compare and contrast the following Baroque genres: opera, oratorio, and cantata.
* What is the Empfindsamer Stil? Who were some of its main proponents? What were its defining
characteristics?
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* Compare and contrast the symphonies of Sammartini and Haydn from your listening assignment.
Consider issues of form, instrumentation, and original performance venues.
* Compare and contrast opera seria and opera buffa. Be sure to cite and discuss relevant examples.
Pay particular attention to plot types, characters, and musical structures.

If you have any questions, please email me. edward.hafer@usm.edu.