Question 1

1. The word baroque has at various times meant all of the following except

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A. elaborately ornamented.B. flamboyant.C. bizarre.*****D. naturalistic.

Question 2

2. Baroque style flourished in music during the period

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1600-1750

Question 3

3. The baroque style was well suited to the

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aristocracy

Question 4

4. The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and

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B. Johann Sebastian Bach.

Question 5

5. Monteverdi, an early baroque composer, strove to create music that was

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B. passionate and dramatic.

Question 6

6. Affections in baroque usage refers to

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D. emotional states or moods of music.

Question 7

7. A baroque musical composition usually expresses ____________ within the same movement.

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A. one basic mood

Question 8

8. The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by

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C. repeated rhythmic patterns.

Question 9

9. Baroque melodies often are

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A. elaborate and ornamental.

Question 10

10. A characteristic often found in baroque melodies is

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D. a short opening phrase followed by a longer phrase with an unbroken flow of rapid notes.

Question 11

11. Terraced dynamics refers to

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C. the sudden alternation from one dynamic level to another.

Question 12

12. In the baroque era, dynamics consisted mainly of sudden alterations between loud and soft called

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B. terraced dynamics.

Question 13

13. The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the

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B. harpsichord.

Question 14

14 The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of

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C. basso continuo.

Question 15

15. The orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the ____________ family.

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A. violin

Question 16

16. The word movement in music normally refers to

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B. a piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition.

Question 17

17. Which of the following statements is not true

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A. A large court during the baroque might employ more than eighty performers, including the finest opera singers of the day.*********B. Audiences in the baroque period were most anxious to hear old familiar favorites, and did not care for new music.C. In Italy, music schools were often connected with orphanages.D. Church musicians in the baroque period earned lower pay and had less status than court musicians.

Question 18

18. The position of the composer during the baroque period was that of

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C. a high-class servant with few personal rights.

Question 19

19. In the baroque period, the ordinary citizen's opportunities for hearing music usually came from the

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B. church.

Question 20

20. In Italy, music schools were often connected with

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A. orphanages.

Question 21

21. A concerto grosso most often has ____________ movement(s).

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C. three

Question 22

22. The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the

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tutti

Question 23

23. The concerto grosso most often has three movements whose tempo markings are

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A. fast, slow, fast.

Question 24

24. The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in ____________ form.

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C. ritornello

Question 25

25. The solo instruments in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are the ____________, violin, and harpsichord.

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C. flute

Question 26

The Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 unusually features the harpsichord as a solo instrument.

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C. it gives a solo role to the harpsichord.

Question 27

27. A type of polyphonic composition based on one main theme is a

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D. fugue.

Question 28

28. The main theme of a fugue is called the

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B. subject.

Question 29

29. Transitional sections of a fugue that offer either new material or fragments of the subject or countersubject are called

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B. episodes.

Question 30

30. An ____________ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.

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opera

Question 31

31. The text, or book, of a musical dramatic work is called the

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libretto

Question 32

32. A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called a/an

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aria

Question 33

33. ____________ refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech.

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recitative

Question 34

34. An ____________ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work.

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overture

Question 35

35. Members of the Camerata wanted to create a new vocal style based on the

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A. music of the ancient Greek tragedies.

Question 36

36. The members of the Camerata wanted the vocal line of their music to follow

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B. the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech.

Question 37

37. Most early baroque operas were based on Greek mythology and

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ancient history

Question 38

38. The first opera house in Europe to offer entry to anyone with the price of admission opened in 1637 in

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Venice

Question 39

39. The stage machinery of baroque opera

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B. bordered on the colossal.

Question 40

40. Castrati

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A. received the highest fees of any musicians.B. combined the lung power of a man with the vocal range of a woman.C. were male singers who had been castrated before puberty.D. All answers are correct.

Question 41

41. Speechlike dialogue with simple accompaniment is called

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recitative

Question 42

42. A typical baroque operatic form was the da capo aria in ABA form in which the singer

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B. was expected to embellish the returning melody with ornamental tones.

Question 43

43. Embellishments are

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A. ornamental tones not printed in the music that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century performers were expected to add to the melody.

Question 44

44. Monteverdi spent the greater part of his career in

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C. St. Mark's, Venice.

Question 45

45. To achieve intensity of expression, Monteverdi used ____________ with unprecedented freedom and daring.

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D. dissonances

Question 46

46. In the myth of Orpheus, Orpheus goes to Hades in the hope of bringing ____________ back to life.

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A. Eurydice

Question 47

47. The respect given Henry Purcell by his fellow Englishmen is evidenced by his burial in

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B. Westminster Abbey.

Question 48

48. ____________ is a musical idea repeated over and over in the bass while melodies above it constantly change.

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A. Basso ostinato

Question 49

49. Dido and Aeneas, which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English text, was composed by

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Henry Purcell

Question 50

50. Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas was originally written to be performed by

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B. students at a girls' boarding school.

Question 51

51. Vivaldi spent most of his life working at an institution for orphaned and illegitimate girls in

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Venice

Question 52

52. Some of Vivaldi's instrumental concertos were arranged by

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J.S. Bach

Question 53

53. A Vivaldi concerto usually has ____________ movements.

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3

Question 54

54. The longest period of Johann Sebastian Bach's professional life was spent as director of music at St. Thomas's Church in

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Leipzig

Question 55

55. Of Bach's twenty children, ____________ went on to become well-known composers.

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4

Question 56

56. While at Leipzig, Bach

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A. taught organ and composition, gave recitals, and was often asked to judge the construction of organs.

Question 57

57. Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____________ of his day.

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organist

Question 58

58. Bach created masterpieces in every baroque form except

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opera

Question 59

59. Bach's personal musical style was drawn from

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A. Italian concertos.B. French dance pieces.C. German church music.D. All answers are correct.

Question 60

60. Sets of dance-inspired instrumental movements are called

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suites

Question 61

61. Although all the movements of a baroque suite are in the same key, they differ in

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A. meter.B. national origin.C. tempo.D. All answers are correct.

Question 62

62. In contrast to fugues, baroque suites tended to have ____________ because they were based on dance steps.

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B. symmetrical phrases and a binary form

Question 63

63. The various dances of the baroque suite are usually

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AABB form

Question 64

64. Baroque suites frequently begin with a

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A. French overture.

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