Music Appreciation Unit 3

Handel's Messiah is an example of ______.

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

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

A bass part together with numbers that specify the chords to be played above it is called ______.

Which of the following about Vivaldi's La Primavera (Spring) from The Four Seasons is true?

A sung piece, or choral work with or without vocal soloists, usually with orchestral accompaniment, is the ______.

Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no ______.

A musical ornament consisting of the rapid alternation of two tones that are a whole or half step apart is a ______.

The middle baroque period spanned the years ______.

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

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

Congregational singing of chorales was an important way for people to ______.

Baroque style flourished in music during the period ______.

____________ is a musical procedure in which a fugue subject is imitated before it is completed.

A large court during the baroque period might employ about ____________ performers.

In their use of aria, duet, and recitative, Bach's cantatas closely resembled the ____________ of the time.

Vivaldi was famous and influential as a virtuoso ______.

A ____________ is a single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while the other voices produce a series of changing harmonies against it.

In Italy, music schools were often connected with ______.

Bach's personal musical style was drawn from ______.

Affections in baroque usage refers to what?

Vivaldi wrote approximately ____________ concerti grossi and solo concertos.

The principal means of musical expression in the Lutheran service was the ______.

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

Why is Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 unusual?

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

A sonata to be played at court, and therefore dancelike in character, was called a ______.

Baroque melodies often are ______.

Which of the following statements is not true?

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

Baroque painters exploited their materials to expand the potential of ____________ to create totally structured worlds.

What are embellishments?

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

What is one characteristic often found in baroque melodies?

A ____________ is a singer with a very low range and powerful voice, who usually takes roles calling for great dignity.

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

A two-part collection of preludes and fugues, one in each major and minor key and basic to the repertoire of keyboard players today, is Bach's ______.

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

All of the following were baroque painters except ______.

George Frideric Handel was born in 1685, the same year as ______.

The early baroque period spanned the years ______.

Corelli's Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op. 3, No. 10, is scored for ______.

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

All of the following were major baroque composers except ______.

A ____________ is a singer with a low range who usually takes comic roles.

The earliest opera that has been preserved is Jacopo Peri's ______.

Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, was a ______.

Which of the following statements is not true?

During the baroque period, _________ were not allowed to be employed as music directors.

Oratorios first appeared in ______.

Sections of an oratorio are usually connected together by means of ______.

The first oratorios were based on ______.

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

Handel is associated with the __________ period.

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

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

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

The Lutheran chorale tunes ______.

The main theme of a fugue is called the ______.

Very often an independent fugue is introduced by a short piece called a(n) _______.

The early and late baroque periods differed in that composers in the late baroque ______.

The baroque principle of ____________ may be temporarily suspended in vocal music when drastic changes of emotion in a text inspires corresponding changes in the music.

Which of the following about Vivaldi's La Primavera (Spring) from The Four Seasons is true?

The sonata originated in ______.

Composers in the middle baroque phase favored writing compositions for instruments of the ____________ family.

The various dances of the baroque suite are usually ______.

Turning the subject of a fugue upside down, or reversing the direction of each interval, is called ______.

Where did Handel's Messiah receive its premiere?

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

To what does the word movement in music normally refer?