Vivaldi is noted for writing instrumental music that depicts a scene without the use of sung words.
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true
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A Baroque concerto is characterized by an ensemble featuring one or more solo instruments and orchestra.
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true
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Baroque concertos tended to have only one movement.
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false
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Program music is music that has a literary link of some kind.
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true
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Vivaldi wrote instrumental music that depicts a scene without the use of sung words. What is this style called?
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program music
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Although he is known today as a composer, in his own day Antonio Vivaldi was better known as a performer.
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true
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Vivaldi's nickname was "the red -."
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preist
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What solo instrument is featured in Vivaldi's Spring concerto?
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violin
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The tempo scheme of the movements in Vivaldi's Spring concerto is ----fast.
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fast
slow
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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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How does Vivaldi musically evoke the image of birds in the first movement of the Spring concerto?
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with running scales
with high trills
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Vivaldi's Spring from The Four Seasons is paired with a - as its literary source.
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poems
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In Vivaldi's Spring, the orchestral ritornellos alternate with the mostly solo violin -.
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episodes
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A Baroque concerto is a(n) - genre that is based on the - between two dissimilar bodies of sound.
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instrumental
oppostition
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Which of the following does Vivaldi portray in the first movement of his Spring concerto?
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thunder
birds
brooks
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Vivaldi is known for having written 500 -, about 230 of which were written for solo -.
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concertos
violin
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Which of the following characterize Vivaldi's career and which do not?
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-He was a virtuoso violinist.
-He was music master at one of Venice's prestigious orphanages (ospedali).
-His concerts at the girls' school in Venice brought visitors from all over Europe.
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At the time Vivaldi was composing, instrumental music was newly freed from an earlier dependence on -music.
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vocal
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Match the musical techniques to the image from the poem that Vivaldi was depicting.
What structure is typical of the first and third movements of a Baroque concerto?
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ritornello form
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Determine the correct order of episodes in Vivaldi's Spring, from The Four Seasons.
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-solo violin with birdlike trills,
-whispering figures played by the orchestra
-solo violin with repeated notes and fast ascending notes
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Match the program to the correct movement of Vivaldi's Spring.
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first movement
Correct label:
birdcalls are answered by murmuring streams and a thunderstorm
second movement
Correct label:
a goatherd slumbers with his faithful dog
third movement
Correct label:
nymphs and shepherds dance in the field
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