Music Appreciation Test 2 Study Guide

The word “baroque” has at various times meant all of the following except

Modern historians use the term “baroque” to indicate

All of the following were baroque painters except

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

Baroque style flourished in music during the period

The baroque, as a stylistic period in western art music, encompassed the years

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and

All of the following were major baroque composers except

Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Baroque art is a complex mixture of rationalism, sensuality, materialism and spirituality.
B. The late baroque period was one of the most revolutionary periods in music history.
C. Early baroque composers favored homophonic texture over the polyphonic texture typical of Renaissance music.
D. Regardless of form, baroque music features contrasts between bodies of sound.

One of the most revolutionary periods in music history was the

The early baroque was characterized by

The early baroque period spanned the years

Monteverdi, an early baroque composer, strove to create music that was

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

The middle baroque was characterized by

The middle baroque period spanned the years

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

By about _______, major or minor scales were the tonal basis of most compositions.

Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ________ period.

The late baroque period spanned the years

Affections in baroque usage refers to

A baroque musical composition usually expresses _________ within the same movement.

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.

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

Baroque melodies often are

Baroque melodies give the impression of

Melodic sequence refers to

A characteristic often found in baroque melodies is

Terraced dynamics refers to

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

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the

A popular keyboard instrument in which sound was produced by means of brass blades striking the strings was the

The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of

A bass part together with numbers (figures) that specify the chords to be played above it is called

The orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the ________ family.

The word “movement” in music normally refers to

Which of the following statements is not true?
A. A large courrt during the baroque period might employ more than 80 performers, including the finest opera singers of the day.
B. Audiences in the baroque period were most anxious to hear old familiar favorites, and did not care for new music.
C. In Italy, music schools were often connected with orphanages.
D. Church musicians in the baroque period earned lower pay and had less status than court musicians.

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

The music director of a baroque court was usually not responsible for

Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, was a

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

In the baroque period, the ordinary citizen’s opportunities for hearing music usually came from the

In Italy, music schools were often connected with

To get a job, a musician had to

A concerto grosso most often has ______ movement(s).

The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the

The concerto grosso most often has three movements whose tempo markings are

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in _____ form.

Which of the following statements are not true?
A. A concerto grosso normally involves two to four soloists, and anywhere from eight to twenty or more musicians for the tutti.
B. A concerto grosso persents a contrast of texture between the tutti and the soloists, who assert their individuality and appeal for attention through brilliant and fanciful melodic lines.
C. A concerto grosso normally involves a large group of soloists accompanied by an equal number of supporting players.
D. The first and last movements of a concerto grossi are often in ritornello form, a form that features the alteration between tutti and solo selections.

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

Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 is unusual in that

A musical ornament consisting of the rapid alteration of two tones that are a whole of half step apart is a

A polyphonic composition based on one main theme is the

The main theme of a fugue is called the

When the subject of a fugue is presented in the dominant scale, it is called the

In many figures, the subject in one voice is constantly accompanied in another voice by a different melodic idea called a(n)

Transitional sections of a fugue that offer either new material or fragments of the subject or countersubject are called

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

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

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

Presenting the subject of a fugue from right to left, or beginning with the last and proceeding backward to the first note, is called

Presenting the subject of a fugue in lengthened time values is called

Presenting the subject of a fugue in shortened time values is called

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

An _________ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes and action.

The text, or book, of a musical dramatic work is called the

Which of the following statements is not true?
A. The terms ensemble and chorus are synonymous.
B. Voice categories in opera are divided more finely than in other musical genres.
C. Operas may contain spoken dialogue, but most are sung entirely.
D. Opera soloists must create a wide variety of characters, and so need acting skills as well as vocal artistry.

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

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

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

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

A(n) _________ is a musical number for two solo voices with orchestral accompaniment.

A(n) ___________ is an operatic number involving three or more leading singers.

The ____________ is the person who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians, and controls the balance among instruments and voices.

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

Members of the Camerata wanted to create a new vocal style based on the

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

Most early baroque operas were based on Greek mythology and

Which of the following statements are not true?
A. Most early baroque operas were based on Greek mythology and ancient history.
B. The members of the Florentine Camerata based their theories on actual dramatic music that had come down to them from the Greeks.
C. The members of the Florentine Camerata wanted to create a new vocal style modeled on the music of ancient Greek tragedy.
D. Polyphonic was rejected by the members of the Florentine Camerata because different words sounding simultaneously would obscure the text.

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

The earliest opera that has been preserved is Jacopo Peri’s

The stage machinery of baroque opera