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43 Cards in this Set
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What type of Baroque bass line featured notes of equal length and move at a constant speed?
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Walking Bass
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What type of tonality came into being in the Baroque era?
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Functional Tonality
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What is the musical term for abrupt changes in volume?
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Terraced Dynamics
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How would you describe the Baroque treatment of meter?
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Meter was accepted and bar lines were used.
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What combination of instruments could be used in a basso continuo?
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One low instrument (cello, string bass, bassoon, organ pedals, and trombone.) AND one chordal instrument (harpsichord, organ, or lute.)
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What was the most important development of the Baroque period?
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Opera
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What is the musical term for a play set to continuous music?
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Opera
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Who developed opera around 1600?
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Florentines (Florence, Italy)
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In opera, what vocal solo form was tuneful with a fuller orchestra accompaniment?
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Aria
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In opera, what vocal solo form consisted of a half-talking/half-singing style with light accompaniment?
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Recitative
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Which composer was a child prodigy, wrote madrigals early in their life and then wrote opera?
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Who wrote the first important opera?
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Monteverdi
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What is the name of Monteverdi's first opera (and most important work)?
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Orfeo
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What type of orchestral piece is played before the presentation of an opera, ballet or musical?
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Overture
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How many true operas did Henry Purcell write?
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One - Dido and Aeneas
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Following Byrd and Morely, who was the next greatest English-born composer?
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Henry Purcell
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Who wrote "trumpet voluntaries"?
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Henry Purcell
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Who was the founder of the French school of opera and combined elements of opera with ballet and yet, it was sung in Italian?
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Jean Baptiste Lully
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What type of musical work consists of a series of instrumental dances from an opera or ballet?
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Suites
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What Baroque instrumental work featured a group of soloists alternating with a full orchestra?
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Concerto Grosso
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What is the musical term for a coherent section of music that is from a larger work?
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Movement
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In a concerto, what is the musical term used to indicate that all players of the orchestra are to play?
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Tutti, Ripieno
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Which composer/violinist was a superintendent of a school for orphan girls and is remember for their instrumental compositions, especially their concerti and concerto grosso?
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Antonia Vivaldi
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What is the title of Vivaldi's four violin concertos that depict Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring?
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The Four Seasons
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Who is the most important composer of harpsichord sonatas?
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Domenico Scarlatti
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What type of chamber music is written in several movements for one to three players?
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Sonatas
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Who had a prolific and masterful style in the composition of trio sonatas?
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Telemann
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What is the musical term for 'work' or 'catalogue number'?
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Opus
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Who was the German-born composer who lived in England most of their life and was known for his Italian opera, English oratorios and instrumental works?
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Handel
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What genre did Handel write that contained 30 works based on religious stories featuring characters, dialogue and plot, but without scenery or action?
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Oratorio
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Who wrote Water Music?
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Handel
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Who wrote Messiah?
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Handel
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What song genre can be performed as part of a religious service, used chorus and vocal soloists with instrumental accompaniment, are not staged and performed in a concert style setting?
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Oratorio
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Who is considered to be the greatest Baroque composer and most influential composer of all time?
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Bach
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Who wrote fugues for the organ?
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Bach
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Who wrote the Brandenburg Concerto?
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Bach
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Who wrote Royal Fireworks Concertos?
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Handel
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Who wrote Mass in B Minor?
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Bach
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What is the title of Bach's possibly greatest work and yet, was never finished?
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The Art of Fugue
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What musical composition is in several movements for solo voice, solo instruments, chorus and can either be secular or sacred?
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Contata
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What type of male singer was surgically altered in order to keep that 'boyish' light quality to their voice?
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Castrati (Senesio)
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Whose only innovation was found in the writing of oratorios?
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Handel
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The Entire Collection of Bach
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Bach Werke Verzeichnes
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