The Baroque Era

As musical instruments developed technically, the level of virtuosity rose in the Baroque. T/F?

Baroque composers often employed which of the following techniques in an attempt to create musical drama?

The rise of opera popularized virtuosic male soprano roles in Baroque dramas; these roles were sung by a singer known as a...

The most notable Baroque innovation was the development of "drama through music," which we now call...

At the time of Monteverdi's opera "The Coronation of Poppea", what type of opera houses were beginning to open in Venice?

An opera is a large-scale ______ that is ______

Overture

Aria

Libretto

Recitative

The purely instrumental sections that the orchestra performs in an opera are called:

Lutheran musical worship is structured around ______ hymns known as ______, which are specific to a particular service.

Singing a specific ______ together with the congregation was a critical part of weekly Lutheran religious services.

For which church did Bach write his cantatas?

Which statements are true of a Baroque oratorio?

The seventeenth-century system in New England in which church leaders sang each line of a psalm and the congregation repeated the lines back is called:

In eighteenth-century New England, a new type of notation called ______________ evolved to help improve solfège instruction.

The system in which syllables are used to memorize intervals between notes in a standard scale pattern is called:

What genres is a group of dance movements, usually in the same key?

Some of the ______ in the Baroque suite were of ______ origin, bringing a bit of earthiness to the more ______ surroundings.

Baroque trumpets were still "natural," meaning that they:

What dances were standard of a Baroque suite?

One of the most important ______ genres in the Baroque era was the ______, which was a group of ______ dances.

Vivaldi wrote instrumental music that depicts a scene without the use of sung words, a style called:

A Baroque concerto is a(n) ______ form that is based upon the ______ of two dissimilar bodies of ______.

Retrograde

Inversion

Augmentation

Diminution

The two main keyboard instruments of the Baroque era were the organ and the...

Which best describes the texture of the first movement of Bach's Cantata 140, Wachet auf?

The instrumental ensemble in the opening of the fourth movement of Bach's Cantata 140, Wachet auf, consist of...

Which keyboard instument is heard in the beginning of Rejoice Greatly?

What best describes the performing forces in the "Hallelujah" chorus from Messiah

Which best describes the performers in Billings's anthem David's Lamentation?

SATB chorus

Which best describes the ensemble playing the Alla hornpipe movement from Water Music by Handel?

Which instrument is heard performing the work Contrapunctus I by Bach?

What best describes the opening passage of Contrapunctus I by Bach?