Music Ch. 18

24 August 2022
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True or False: A descending ground bass helps underscore the sorrow in Dido's lament.
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True
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Which of the following are purely instrumental sections that can be included in an opera?
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Overture, sinfonia
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What is the structural basis for Dido's Lament in Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas?
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Ground bass
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Which of the following does NOT describe Henry Purcell's life and career? He was a composer, He was an organist, He was born in Venice, He was a singer
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He was born in Venice
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Which of the following correctly describes Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas?
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It is based on Virgil's Aeneid, The opera ends tragically, It was first performed at a girls school in London
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How does Purcell musically depict Dido's grief in the aria "When I am laid in Earth"?
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With a slow tempo, With a descending, chromatic bass line
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Why does Dido sing a lament at the end of Purcell's opera?
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Aeneas left her
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True or False: Early opera was originally designed to reflect the manner in which seventeenth-century aristocrats sung their conversations to each other on a daily basis.
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False
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Which of the following operas were composed by Claudio Monteverdi?
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Orfeo and The Coronation of Poppea
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True or False: Italian opera was embraced in all Western European countries.
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False
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Which of the following dramatic works were composed by Henry Purcell?
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Dido and Aeneas, The fairy queen
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Match each definition to the genre it best describes.
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Overture - An orchestral introduction, Recitative - A kind of musical declamation or speech, Aria - A song usually of a highly emotional nature, Libretto - The text/script of an opera
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What is "Thy hand, Belinda," as sung by Dido in Purcell's opera?
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A recitative
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At the time of Monteverdi's opera The Coronation of Poppea, what type of opera houses we're beginning to open in Venice?
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Public
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In composing ________ , a composer often works with a __________ librettist, who supplies the text for the various recitatives, arias, and choruses and provides the story's main threads and subplots.
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Opera, librettist
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An opera is a large-scale _________ that is __________.
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drama sung
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The libretto for Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas, is based on _____.
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Aeneid
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True or False: The masque was an English form of entertainment that combined music, poetry, and dance.
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True
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True or False: Monteverdi was one of the first great composers of opera.
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True
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True or False: Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas is based on an episode in Virgil's Aeneid
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True