Question 1 2 out of 2 points

Which of the following letter schemes best represents the formal plan of a da capo aria? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: ABA ABA

Question 2

2 out of 2 points
Patronage of seventeenth-century music consisted of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: wealthy patrons, churches, and public performances of operas and concerts wealthy patrons, churches, and public performances of operas and concerts

Question 3

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The style of monody in which a solo singer sings speechlike dialogue to the accompaniment of simple chords is _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: aria recitative

Question 4

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The composer known for his performance on the violin was _____. Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer:

Alessandro Scarlatti Arcangelo Corelli

Question 5

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Monteverdi developed Stile concitato to depict _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: scenes of extreme sadness agitation

Question 6

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How did Cromwells prohibition against stage plays affect music performances? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: All music was banned from the stage. The addition of music and elements from the masque made stage plays acceptable.

Question 7

2 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes a typical sonata da chiesa? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slowfast order. It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slowfast order.

Question 8

2 out of 2 points

Artusi criticized Monteverdis Cruda Amarilli because it _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: violated Zarlinos counterpoint rules violated Zarlinos counterpoint rules

Question 9

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Which of the following statements best describes the state of Lutheran church music after the Thirty Years War? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lutherans believed that only the minor mode should be used for the following thirty years. Lutherans were divided in their opinions about the type of music that should be used.

Question 10

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The scholar whose study of ancient Greek texts led him to believe that all Greek plays had been sung was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Galilei Mei

Question 11

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Composed Jewish liturgical polyphonic music Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lodovico Viadana Salamone Rossi

Question 12

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The large instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: collegium musicum concerto grosso

Question 13

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Cesti composed his most famous opera for audiences in which region? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Northern Italy, including Venice Austria

Question 14

2 out of 2 points
The term Baroque is now applied to _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: music from ca. 16001750 music from ca. 16001750

Question 15

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The Florentine Camerata was _____. Answer Selected Answer: a traveling band of musicians and actors who brought music and theater to small-town audiences

Correct Answer:

members of the count of Florences private chapel

Question 16

2 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes the use of chromaticism in the Baroque era? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Chromaticism expressed only emotions at first, but later was used in harmonic exploration. Chromaticism expressed only emotions at first, but later was used in harmonic exploration.

Question 17

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Seventeenth-century sculpture sought to _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: break down the barriers between art and science portray more drama and emotion

Question 18

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The text for an opera is called a(n) _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: lyrical poem libretto

Question 19

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The texture of Baroque music is marked by _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: equality of all voices a polarity between bass and treble lines

Question 20

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What instrument was most commonly featured in solo sonatas? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: trumpet violin

Question 21

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Which of the following statements best describes Schtzs training and career? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: He learned violin, keyboard, and composition from his father, and succeeded his father in the service of the elector of Hanover. He studied with Gabrieli in Venice, then worked in Kassel and Dresden.

Question 22

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A repeating bass line used as the basis of variations is called _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: basso continuo ostinato bass

Question 23

0 out of 2 points
Figured bass is _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a bass line notated with embellishments to equal embellishments in the top voice a bass line notated with numbers to indicate chords above it

Question 24

2 out of 2 points
The Passion is a _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: multi-movement work depicting the last days of Christ multi-movement work depicting the last days of Christ

Question 25

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The count who hosted gatherings of poets and musicians at his home was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Mei Bardi

Question 26

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In Baroque music, affections can be defined as _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct the Churchs belief that Gods love was called forth with the proper performance of vocal music the spirits or humors believed to harbor emotions, and which

Answer:

could be brought into balance with contrasting moods of music

Question 27

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Published more cantatas than any other composer of the early seventeenth century Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lodovico Viadana Barbara Strozzi

Question 28

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Public concerts of instrumental music first began in _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: France England

Question 29

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An opera by Lully might also be called a(n) _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: ouvrage tragdie en musique or tragdie lyrique

Question 30

0 out of 2 points
Which of these statements is true of the role of improvisation in Baroque music? Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer:

Everything was written out, with no room for improvisation. Part of the accompaniment was written out, the rest improvised, and the melody could be embellished.

Question 31

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In Rome, roles for high voices were sung by _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: professional female singers men who had been castrated as boys

Question 32

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The earliest opera plots were based on _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: historical events mythological characters and events

Question 33

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes the Renaissance antecedents of opera? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: There was no staged music before opera, but dance songs sometimes included dialogue. Opera arose directly from the madrigal cycle without other influences.

Question 34

2 out of 2 points
In the seventeenth century, _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: colonies in the Americas imported villancicos from Spain and metric psalmody from England colonies in the Americas imported villancicos from Spain and metric psalmody from England

Question 35

2 out of 2 points
The seventeenth century was an era in which _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: scientists combined deductive reasoning and direct observation for the first time scientists combined deductive reasoning and direct observation for the first time

Question 36

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Stadtpfeifers were _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: members of amateur music-making clubs musicians hired to provide music for the city

Question 37

2 out of 2 points
Jean-Baptiste Lully is best known for his contribution to the development of _____. Answer Selected Answer: opera

Correct Answer:

opera

Question 38

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Divisions and partite are terms for _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: dance steps that divide or partition the measure variations movements

Question 39

2 out of 2 points
The term Baroque was first applied to _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: overly ornate embellishments in architecture overly ornate embellishments in architecture

Question 40

2 out of 2 points
Tuning systems in the Baroque era gradually came to favor _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: equal temperament equal temperament

Question 41

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Music of the Great Stable was _____. Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer:

music performed in the area in front of the stage in a theater an ensemble composed of wind, brass, and timpani players who provided military and outdoor music for the French monarchy

Question 42

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The concertato medium consisted of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: two treble instruments plus a keyboard a mixed grouping of voices and instruments

Question 43

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Which of the following statements best describes the Italian secular cantata? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a mini-opera with scenery and costumes many short, contrasting sections with recitatives and arias for solo voice with continuo

Question 44

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Which of the following statements best describes a typical sonata da camera? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slowfast order. It consisted of several stylized dances preceded by a prelude.

Question 45

0 out of 2 points
Monteverdi called his approach to composition _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: doctrine of affections seconda pratica

Question 46

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The genre cultivated for Christmas and Easter in colonial Latin America was the _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: carol villancico

Question 47

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The zarzuela was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: an Italian adaptation of French ballet the predominant genre of musical theater in Spain for several centuries

Question 48

2 out of 2 points
Louis XIV and other members of the nobility took part in performances of which genre? Answer Selected Answer: the court ballet

Correct Answer:

the court ballet

Question 49

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Which of the following statements best defines the cantata in the seventeenth century? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: A series of variations on a well-known song A succession of arias and recitatives in a brief, unstaged work

Question 50

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The leading composer of church music in France during the late seventeenth century was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Jean-Baptiste Lully Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Question 1 0 out of 2 points

The main patron(s) of music in the French Baroque was/were _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the Cathedral of Notre Dame Louis XIV

Question 2

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The main composer of Roman oratorios Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lodovico Viadana Giacomo Carissimi

Question 3

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Monteverdis seventh and eighth books of madrigals are best known for _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: being attacked by Artusi because they break counterpoint rules including madrigals in the concertato medium

Question 4

2 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes the form of the French overture? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a slow opening marked by dotted rhythms, followed by a fast fugal section, with an optional slow closing section a slow opening marked by dotted rhythms, followed by a fast fugal section, with an optional slow closing section

Question 5

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San Petronio in Bologna was known for being a center for developments in _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: sacred concerto instrumental music

Question 6

0 out of 2 points
Realization is _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Monteverdis term for the compositional techniques that Artusi criticized filling in the chords above a bass line according to the numbers above the line

Question 7

2 out of 2 points
Alessandro Scarlatti is known mainly for works in which genre(s)? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: secular cantata and opera secular cantata and opera

Question 8

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Jean-Baptiste Lully is best known for his contribution to the development of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: oratorio opera

Question 9

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The composer known for his performance on the violin was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Alessandro Scarlatti Arcangelo Corelli

Question 10

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Fiori musicali was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a treatise on composing church music according to revised principles of the prima pratica a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass

Question 11

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Stylized dance music suites in France were most often performed by _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the Vingt-quatre violons du Roi lute or harpsichord

Question 12

2 out of 2 points
The small instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: concertino concertino

Question 13

0 out of 2 points
Which of these statements is true of the role of improvisation in Baroque music? Answer Selected Everything was written out, with no room for improvisation.

Answer: Correct Answer: Part of the accompaniment was written out, the rest improvised, and the melody could be embellished.

Question 14

0 out of 2 points
In 1722, Rameau developed an influential theory of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: embellishment harmony

Question 15

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Henry Purcells employer was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the Church of England the English monarchy

Question 16

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Which scoring is typical of Lullys orchestration? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: two violins plus continuo fivepart string orchestra augmented by woodwinds

Question 17

2 out of 2 points

Which genre substituted for opera when public theaters were closed? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: oratorio oratorio

Question 18

0 out of 2 points
The count who hosted gatherings of poets and musicians at his home was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Mei Bardi

Question 19

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes the Italian secular cantata? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a mini-opera with scenery and costumes many short, contrasting sections with recitatives and arias for solo voice with continuo

Question 20

0 out of 2 points
The texture of Baroque music is marked by _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: equality of all voices a polarity between bass and treble lines

Question 21

0 out of 2 points

The leading composer of church music in France during the late seventeenth century was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Jean-Baptiste Lully Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Question 22

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best defines the cantata in the seventeenth century? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: A series of variations on a well-known song A succession of arias and recitatives in a brief, unstaged work

Question 23

0 out of 2 points
The zarzuela was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: an Italian adaptation of French ballet the predominant genre of musical theater in Spain for several centuries

Question 24

2 out of 2 points
The scholar whose study of ancient Greek texts led him to believe that all Greek plays had been sung was _____. Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer:

Mei Mei

Question 25

0 out of 2 points
A repeating bass line used as the basis of variations is called _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: basso continuo ostinato bass

Question 26

2 out of 2 points
Tuning systems in the Baroque era gradually came to favor _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: equal temperament equal temperament

Question 27

0 out of 2 points
An opera by Lully might also be called a(n) _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: ouvrage tragdie en musique or tragdie lyrique

Question 28

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes Schtzs training and career? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: He was the first major composer to be trained and employed exclusively in German-speaking lands. He studied with Gabrieli in Venice, then worked in Kassel and Dresden.

Question 29

0 out of 2 points
In Rome, roles for high voices were sung by _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: women who had been trained in the church men who had been castrated as boys

Question 30

0 out of 2 points
Divisions and partite are terms for _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: dance steps that divide or partition the measure variations movements

Question 31

2 out of 2 points
Published the first book of sacred music with basso continuo Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lodovico Viadana Lodovico Viadana

Question 32

0 out of 2 points

The tonal organization of a dance movement in binary form (assuming a major key) can best be summarized as _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: ||: I :|| ||: I :|| ||: I :|| etc. ||: IV :|| ||: VI :||

Question 33

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes the Renaissance antecedents of opera? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: There was no staged music before opera, but dance songs sometimes included dialogue. Opera arose directly from the madrigal cycle without other influences.

Question 34

0 out of 2 points
The poet who wrote the text for some of the first operas was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Mei Rinuccini

Question 35

0 out of 2 points
Cesti composed his most famous opera for audiences in which region? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Northern Italy, including Venice Austria

Question 36

0 out of 2 points
Antonio Stradivari was instrumental in the development of the _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: organ violin

Question 37

0 out of 2 points
The form of the typical late-seventeenth-century toccata is _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a series of entrances on a theme, followed by improvisatory music a series of short sections in free style alternating with longer ones in imitative counterpoint

Question 38

0 out of 2 points
Composed Jewish liturgical polyphonic music Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lodovico Viadana Salamone Rossi

Question 39

2 out of 2 points
Which of the following is not characteristic of Roman oratorios? Answer Selected Answer: They were elaborately staged.

Correct Answer:

They were elaborately staged.

Question 40

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes the state of Lutheran church music after the Thirty Years War? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lutherans believed that only the minor mode should be used for the following thirty years. Lutherans were divided in their opinions about the type of music that should be used.

Question 41

2 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes a typical sonata da chiesa? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slowfast order. It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slowfast order.

Question 42

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following letter schemes best represents the formal plan of a da capo aria? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: AAAAA ABA

Question 43

0 out of 2 points
The term Baroque is now applied to _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: music from ca. 15501700 music from ca. 16001750

Question 44

0 out of 2 points
Published more cantatas than any other composer of the early seventeenth century Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lodovico Viadana Barbara Strozzi

Question 45

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What was the most common instrumentation for the sonata after ca. 1650? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Any instrument or combination of instruments could be used. One or two treble instruments (usually violin(s)) and harpsichord

Question 46

0 out of 2 points
The large instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: concertino concerto grosso

Question 47

0 out of 2 points
Music of the Great Stable was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the first large ensemble of the violin family an ensemble composed of wind, brass, and timpani players who provided military and outdoor music for the French monarchy

Question 48

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes the use of chromaticism in the Baroque era? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Chromaticism was used only for expression of strong emotions. Chromaticism expressed only emotions at first, but later was used in harmonic exploration.

Question 49

0 out of 2 points
The earliest opera plots were based on _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: historical events mythological characters and events

Question 50

0 out of 2 points

Le nuove musiche was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Monteverdis term for the modern style a collection of songs in monody by Caccini

Question 1 2 out of 2 points

Henry Purcell is best known for composing in which genres? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: English opera, semi-opera, and incidental music for plays English opera, semi-opera, and incidental music for plays

Question 2

0 out of 2 points
Monody is the modern term for _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the use of repeated pitches over a sustained chord all accompanied solo singing of the early seventeenth century

Question 3

2 out of 2 points
Artusi criticized Monteverdis Cruda Amarilli because it _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: violated Zarlinos counterpoint rules violated Zarlinos counterpoint rules

Question 4

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The composer known for his performance on the violin was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Stradella Arcangelo Corelli

Question 5

2 out of 2 points
The standard order of movements in seventeenth-century French suites was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue

Question 6

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The center for opera development after its initial development in Florence was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Venice Rome

Question 7

0 out of 2 points
The form of the typical late-seventeenth-century toccata is _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a series of entrances on a theme, followed by improvisatory music a series of short sections in free style alternating with longer ones in imitative counterpoint

Question 8

0 out of 2 points
In Rome, roles for high voices were sung by _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: professional female singers men who had been castrated as boys

Question 9

2 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes a typical sonata da chiesa? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slowfast order. It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slowfast order.

Question 10

0 out of 2 points
Monteverdi developed Stile concitato to depict _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: scenes of extreme sadness agitation

Question 11

2 out of 2 points
Two of Monteverdis pupils and his successors as composers of Venetian opera were _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Cavalli and Cesti Cavalli and Cesti

Question 12

0 out of 2 points
The genre cultivated for Christmas and Easter in colonial Latin America was the _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: carol villancico

Question 13

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes the Renaissance antecedents of opera? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: There was no staged music before opera, but dance songs sometimes included dialogue. Opera arose directly from the madrigal cycle without other influences.

Question 14

2 out of 2 points
Tuning systems in the Baroque era gradually came to favor _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: equal temperament equal temperament

Question 15

0 out of 2 points
In Baroque music, affections can be defined as _____. Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer:

the Churchs belief that Gods love was called forth with the proper performance of vocal music the spirits or humors believed to harbor emotions, and which could be brought into balance with contrasting moods of music

Question 16

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes the state of Lutheran church music after the Thirty Years War? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lutherans believed that only the minor mode should be used for the following thirty years. Lutherans were divided in their opinions about the type of music that should be used.

Question 17

0 out of 2 points
The composer who collaborated on the first operas of the Florentine Camerata was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Mei Peri

Question 18

0 out of 2 points
How did Cromwells prohibition against stage plays affect music performances? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: All music was banned from the stage. The addition of music and elements from the masque made stage plays acceptable.

Question 19

2 out of 2 points
The typical movements of a Torelli concerto are _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: fast-slow-fast fast-slow-fast

Question 20

0 out of 2 points
The Banchetto musicale was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass a collection of suites using dance movements in a standard sequence

Question 21

0 out of 2 points
The term Baroque is now applied to _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: music from ca. 15501700 music from ca. 16001750

Question 22

2 out of 2 points
The main chamber instruments in seventeenth-century Spain were _____. Answer Selected Answer: harp and guitar

Correct Answer:

harp and guitar

Question 23

0 out of 2 points
The poet who wrote the text for some of the first operas was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Mei Rinuccini

Question 24

0 out of 2 points
Arioso is best defined as _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a compositional style aimed at showing off a singers virtuosity a singing style midway between aria and recitative

Question 25

2 out of 2 points
Which of the following is not characteristic of Roman oratorios? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: They were elaborately staged. They were elaborately staged.

Question 26

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes a typical sonata da camera? Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer:

It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slowfast order. It consisted of several stylized dances preceded by a prelude.

Question 27

0 out of 2 points
Musical figures were _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the English version of agrments counterpoint patterns that had become associated with specific emotions

Question 28

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Figured bass is _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a bass line notated with embellishments to equal embellishments in the top voice a bass line notated with numbers to indicate chords above it

Question 29

2 out of 2 points
The scholar whose study of ancient Greek texts led him to believe that all Greek plays had been sung was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Mei Mei

Question 30

0 out of 2 points
Antonio Stradivari was instrumental in the development of the _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: organ violin

Question 31

2 out of 2 points
The small instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: concertino concertino

Question 32

0 out of 2 points
The leading composer of church music in France during the late seventeenth century was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Jean-Baptiste Lully Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Question 33

0 out of 2 points
A repeating bass line used as the basis of variations is called _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: basso continuo ostinato bass

Question 34

0 out of 2 points
Published more cantatas than any other composer of the early seventeenth century Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lodovico Viadana Barbara Strozzi

Question 35

0 out of 2 points
The main patron(s) of music in the French Baroque was/were _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the Cathedral of Notre Dame Louis XIV

Question 36

0 out of 2 points
Stile bris, developed by lutenists, was imitated in _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: opera arias harpsichord music

Question 37

0 out of 2 points
Concerts of sacred music given by Buxtehude were called _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Singspiels Abendmusiken

Question 38

0 out of 2 points
The texture of Baroque music is marked by _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: equality of all voices a polarity between bass and treble lines

Question 39

0 out of 2 points
Stadtpfeifers were _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: members of amateur music-making clubs musicians hired to provide music for the city

Question 40

0 out of 2 points
Music of the Great Stable was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the first large ensemble of the violin family an ensemble composed of wind, brass, and timpani players who provided military and outdoor music for the French monarchy

Question 41

0 out of 2 points
The text for an opera is called a(n) _____. Answer Selected Answer: lyrical poem

Correct Answer:

libretto

Question 42

2 out of 2 points
Fiori musicali was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass

Question 43

2 out of 2 points
La prpura de la rosa was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the first opera produced in the New World the first opera produced in the New World

Question 44

0 out of 2 points
The zarzuela was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: an Italian adaptation of French ballet the predominant genre of musical theater in Spain for several centuries

Question 45

0 out of 2 points

Monteverdis seventh and eighth books of madrigals are best known for _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: compositions in the prima pratica style including madrigals in the concertato medium

Question 46

0 out of 2 points
Patronage of seventeenth-century music consisted of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: wealthy patrons who hired musicians for their private chapels wealthy patrons, churches, and public performances of operas and concerts

Question 47

0 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes Schtzs training and career? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: He was the first major composer to be trained and employed exclusively in German-speaking lands. He studied with Gabrieli in Venice, then worked in Kassel and Dresden.

Question 48

0 out of 2 points
What was the most common instrumentation for the sonata after ca. 1650? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Any instrument or combination of instruments could be used. One or two treble instruments (usually violin(s)) and harpsichord

Question 49

0 out of 2 points
The concertato medium consisted of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: two treble instruments plus a keyboard a mixed grouping of voices and instruments

Question 50

2 out of 2 points
Alessandro Scarlatti is known mainly for works in which genre(s)? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: secular cantata and opera secular cantata and opera

Question 1 0 out of 2 points

The instrumentation for a trio sonata typically consisted of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: two treble instruments and a cello two treble instruments, an optional cello or viola da gamba, and harpsichord or organ

Question 2

2 out of 2 points
Composed Jewish liturgical polyphonic music Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer:

Salamone Rossi Salamone Rossi

Question 3

2 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes a typical sonata da camera? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: It consisted of several stylized dances preceded by a prelude. It consisted of several stylized dances preceded by a prelude.

Question 4

2 out of 2 points
A repeating bass line used as the basis of variations is called _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: ostinato bass ostinato bass

Question 5

2 out of 2 points
Stile bris, developed by lutenists, was imitated in _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: harpsichord music harpsichord music

Question 6

2 out of 2 points

Patronage of seventeenth-century music consisted of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: wealthy patrons, churches, and public performances of operas and concerts wealthy patrons, churches, and public performances of operas and concerts

Question 7

2 out of 2 points
The most important composer of toccatas in the early seventeenth century was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Frescobaldi Frescobaldi

Question 8

2 out of 2 points
In the seventeenth century, _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: colonies in the Americas imported villancicos from Spain and metric psalmody from England colonies in the Americas imported villancicos from Spain and metric psalmody from England

Question 9

2 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements best describes the form of the French overture? Answer Selected Answer: Correct a slow opening marked by dotted rhythms, followed by a fast fugal section, with an optional slow closing section a slow opening marked by dotted rhythms, followed by a fast

Answer:

fugal section, with an optional slow closing section

Question 10

2 out of 2 points
The leading composer of church music in France during the late seventeenth century was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Question 11

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Which scoring is typical of Lullys orchestration? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: fivepart string orchestra augmented by woodwinds fivepart string orchestra augmented by woodwinds

Question 12

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Music of the Great Stable was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: an ensemble composed of wind, brass, and timpani players who provided military and outdoor music for the French monarchy an ensemble composed of wind, brass, and timpani players who provided military and outdoor music for the French monarchy

Question 13

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Though a nun, she published a collection of her compositions. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Giacomo Carissimi Lucrezia Vizzana

Question 14

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The forces for the small-scale sacred concerto typically consisted of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: one or more solo singers with organ and one or two violins one or more solo singers with organ and one or two violins

Question 15

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Tonal organization in the Baroque featured _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the twelve church modes major and minor tonalities

Question 16

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Musical figures were _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: rhythmic patterns derived from dance steps that were sometimes used in an aria to suggest the moral qualities of the character singing it counterpoint patterns that had become associated with specific emotions

Question 17

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Which of the following is not characteristic of Roman oratorios? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: They were performed in the oratory portions of Roman churches. They were elaborately staged.

Question 18

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Monteverdi called his approach to composition _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: doctrine of affections seconda pratica

Question 19

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The scholar whose study of ancient Greek texts led him to believe that all Greek plays had been sung was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Peri Mei

Question 20

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The style of monody in which a solo singer sings speechlike dialogue to the accompaniment of simple chords is _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: aria recitative

Question 21

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Divisions and partite are terms for _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: dance steps that divide or partition the measure variations movements

Question 22

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The instruments of the continuo group usually consist of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: two treble instruments plus a keyboard one bass instrument, such as a viol, plus a keyboard or lute

Question 23

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Monody is the modern term for _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the use of repeated pitches over a sustained chord all accompanied solo singing of the early seventeenth century

Question 24

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How did Cromwells prohibition against stage plays affect music performances? Answer Selected All music was banned from the stage.

Answer: Correct Answer: The addition of music and elements from the masque made stage plays acceptable.

Question 25

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Fiori musicali was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass

Question 26

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Arioso is best defined as _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a compositional style aimed at showing off a singers virtuosity a singing style midway between aria and recitative

Question 27

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Which of the following statements best describes the use of chromaticism in the era? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Chromaticism was used only for expression of strong emotions. Chromaticism expressed only emotions at first, but later was used in harmonic exploration.

Question 28

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In Baroque music, affections can be defined as _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the Churchs belief that Gods love was called forth with the proper performance of vocal music the spirits or humors believed to harbor emotions, and which could be brought into balance with contrasting moods of music

Question 29

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In Rome, roles for high voices were sung by _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: professional female singers men who had been castrated as boys

Question 30

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The texture of Baroque music is marked by _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: equality of all voices a polarity between bass and treble lines

Question 31

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Which of the following is not true of mid-seventeenth-century Italian opera style? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: There was a concentration on solo singing, with more arias per act. Singers and spectacle had replaced drama as the focus of

interest.

Question 32

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Henry Purcell is best known for composing in which genres? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: English opera, semi-opera, and incidental music for plays English opera, semi-opera, and incidental music for plays

Question 33

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Which of the following statements best describes the state of Lutheran church music after the Thirty Years War? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lutherans believed that only the minor mode should be used for the following thirty years. Lutherans were divided in their opinions about the type of music that should be used.

Question 34

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Which of these statements is true of the role of improvisation in Baroque music? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Everything was written out, with no room for improvisation. Part of the accompaniment was written out, the rest improvised, and the melody could be embellished.

Question 35

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The concertato medium consisted of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: two treble instruments plus a keyboard a mixed grouping of voices and instruments

Question 36

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In modern editions of Baroque music, small notes in a keyboard part indicate _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: alternate pitches editorial suggestions to flesh out unnotated parts

Question 37

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Which of the following statements best describes Schtzs training and career? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: He was the first major composer to be trained and employed exclusively in German-speaking lands. He studied with Gabrieli in Venice, then worked in Kassel and Dresden.

Question 38

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Seventeenth-century sculpture sought to _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: replicate classical aesthetics portray more drama and emotion

Question 39

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Le nuove musiche was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Monteverdis term for the modern style a collection of songs in monody by Caccini

Question 40

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Which of the following statements best describes the Italian secular cantata? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a mini-opera with scenery and costumes many short, contrasting sections with recitatives and arias for solo voice with continuo

Question 41

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Which of the following statements best describes a typical sonata da chiesa? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slowfast order. It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slowfast order.

Question 42

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The small instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _____. Answer Selected Answer: collegium musicum

Correct Answer:

concertino

Question 43

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Published the first book of sacred music with basso continuo Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Lodovico Viadana Lodovico Viadana

Question 44

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The genre cultivated for Christmas and Easter in colonial Latin America was the _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: carol villancico

Question 45

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The Passion is a _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: multi-movement work depicting the last days of Christ multi-movement work depicting the last days of Christ

Question 46

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The Banchetto musicale was _____. Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer:

a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass a collection of suites using dance movements in a standard sequence

Question 47

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Jean-Baptiste Lully is best known for his contribution to the development of _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: opera opera

Question 48

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The count who hosted gatherings of poets and musicians at his home was _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Mei Bardi

Question 49

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The term Baroque is now applied to _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: music from ca. 15501700 music from ca. 16001750

Question 50

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The main patron(s) of music in the French Baroque was/were _____. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: middle-class concert audiences Louis XIV