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How does Vivaldi evoke the image of a thunder and lightning storm in the first movement of the Spring concerto?
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with repeated notes and fast ascending, minor-key scales
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How does Vivaldi musically evoke the image of birds in the first movement of the Spring concerto?
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with high trills and running scales
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In the first movement of the Spring concerto, all of the following musical images are depicted by Vivaldi except
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a barking dog
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In the third movement of his Spring concerto, Vivaldi suggests the sound of bagpipes by incorporating a
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drone
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Instrumental music meant to portray the action and emotion described by words is called
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program music
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In the first movement of Vivaldi's Spring concerto, the solo instrument is often featured in sections called
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episodes
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The concerto
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was a new instrumental genre of the Baroque era.
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The Baroque concerto that is characterized by a solo instrument and orchestra is the
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solo concerto
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The Baroque genre that is characterized by one or more solo instruments and orchestra is
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the concerto
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The first movement of Vivaldi's Spring concerto is in __________ form.
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ritornello
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The second movement of Vivaldi's Spring concerto depicts the sound of
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a dog barking
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The solo instrument featured in Vivaldi's Spring concerto is the
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violin
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The tempo scheme of the movements in Vivaldi's Spring concerto is
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fast-slow-fast
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Antonio Vivaldi, in his own day, was better known as a composer than a performer.
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false
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Vivaldi himself was a fine musician on which instrument?
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violin
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Vivaldi wrote instrumental music that depicts a scene without the use of sung words, a genre called
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program music
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Vivaldi wrote roughly 230 solo concertos for what instrument?
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violin
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What is the unifying formal structure that Vivaldi used in the first movement of the Spring concerto?
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ritornello
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What makes The Four Seasons a programmatic work?
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It is based on a set of poems, one for each season
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Which Baroque composer was known as "the red priest"?
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Antonio Vivaldi
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Which is a true statement about Vivaldi's Four Seasons?
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Lines of poetry are printed above passages in the music.
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Which is a true statement?
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The standard Baroque concerto has three movements.
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Which movement(s) in a Baroque concerto was/were set in a fast tempo?
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the first and third movements
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Which principle usually associated with vocal music did Vivaldi apply to instrumental music?
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word-painting
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Who were students at the Conservatorio dell'Ospedale della Pietร  in Baroque Venice?
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young orphaned girls