Midterm For Music 121

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The elements of musical form are?

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rhythm, pitch and melody, dynamics, tone color, and texture

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Which is not a genre?

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rondo

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The single-line melodies of the early Christian Church are known as?

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plainchant

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Bach's cantata "Christ lag in Todesbanden is comprised of?

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a sinfonia prelude followed by several stanza movements

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The 1st public opera theater was opened in?

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Venice in 1637

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Many Baroque operas deal with ancient____________, whereas oratorios deal with ancient ______________.

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Rome; Israel

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During the early Middle Ages, the institution(s) that preserved written records of its culture, including music, was/were the?

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Christian Church

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The second movement of Vivaldis' Violin Concerto in G?

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is slow and gentle, and in variation form

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Early Florentine operas were

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court entertainments for events such as royal weddings

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The musical term for "medium" is?

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mezzo

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"There wer shepherds" is a(n)

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Recitative

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In which language are dynamics generally described?

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Italian

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The test of an opera is called?

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libretto

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The pitch of a sound is determined by?

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the speed of vibration in a vibrating body

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In Baroque music, what is the form in which there is a repeated bass figure with chords, above which the upperlines play different melodies?

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Ground bass

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Acoustically speaking, a cycle is?

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One vibration that is transmitted through the air

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Another name for tone color is

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timbre

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The operatic equivalent to dramatic dialogue is a

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recitative

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The musical term for "suddenly" is?

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subito

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The original meaning of baroque was?

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an irregularly shaped pearl

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Tone color is the musical term for the general quality of

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a sound

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Handel knew how to follow the tastes of the public in his compositional style. This is hown in his switch from writing ______________ to writing ________________.

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Operas; oratorios

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How many Brandenburg did Bach write?

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six

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In Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, the harpsichord player?

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plays both solos and continuo

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In the Baroque era, women were most able to be professional musicians by?

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Singing

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Frequency refers to?

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the speed or rate of the vibrations

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On which musical element is the artistic effect of plainchant based?

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melody

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Handel's Hallelujah Chorus is a good example of changing?

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textures

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What is the message to the shepherds in "There were shepherds"?

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The Birth of Christ Child

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Which diagram show the greatest amount of musical contrast?

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ABC

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Repetition of elements in form can be...?

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exact or can have some variation

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It was the main instrument of which Bach performed?

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Organ

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The Baroque period spans the years

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1600 to 1750

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The standard form for the Italian opera aria is ?

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da capo form

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Gregorian chant was organized around C.E.?

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600

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Handel's most famous oratorio, which is frequently performed today, is?

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Messiah

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Which is not ture of an aria?

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An aria has no set meter; the meter and melody serve the test first and foremost.

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Which dynamic indication is the sottest?

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pianissimo

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Who is traditionally associated with collecting and codifying the chants of the church?

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Pope Gregory I

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Where did the Gabrielis work?

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St. MArk's Cathedral in Venice

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Which is not a medieval mode?

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Grecian

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In da capo form, ornamentation occurs primarily in the?

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final A section

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At the end of his career, Bach?

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was regarded as old-fashioned by other composers

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The medieval modes were traced back to ancient?

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Greece

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Which is not a Baroque variation form?

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bourree

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The section of a fugue in which all subject entries first ocur is the?

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exposition

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The early history of Western music was dominated by?

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The Christian Church

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Which is not a feature of Baroque harmony?

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use of Church modes

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Opera provided the perfect vehicle for the Baroque idea of

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expressing the emotions of the individual

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The individual style of a particular composer is described in terms of?

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the way the composer handles musical elements

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A genre can be determined by its?

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text, function, and musical forces

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In a form diagram, letters are least useful in showing?

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specific changes of the inner form

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The collection of forty-eight preludes and fugues by Bach is called?

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The well_tempered Clavier

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What is the main talent involved in hearing form in music?

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memory

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Which is not true of an oratorio?

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it is performed as part of a religious service

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The plot of Julius Caesar offers singers opportunities for?

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strong emotional displays

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Drama set to music is?

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Opera

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Another term for Gregorian chant is?

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plainchant

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Which was not characteristic of music in Italy around 1600?

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Musical exaggeration

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Which term indicates a gradual increase in dynamic level?

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crescendo

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Which 2 instruments would most likely have played the basso continuo in the Baroque era?

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cello and harpsichord

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A recitative in which only continuo instruments play the accompaniment is called?

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secco recitative

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Handel's "Glory to God" is a(n)?

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chorus

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Handel composed most of his operas and oratorios in?

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England

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Which of the following lists of dynamics shows a change from louder to softer?

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Mezzo piano; piano; pianissimo

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One of the most famous singers in Handel's operas was?

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Faustina Bordoni

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Music is exclusively the art of?

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sound in time

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Pitch is the quality of?

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highness or lowness of a sound

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Ritornello form is based on?

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a periodic return of a central, homophonic theme.

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The preexisting melodies on which much of Lutheran church music is based on are?

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chorales

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The fugue subject is the?

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main theme or melody

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How does Messiah differ from other works of this genre?

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Messiah does not have characters acting out a story

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Overtones, or partials, exist because sound-producing bodies?

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Vibrate along their entire lenght and in halves, quarters, eighths, and so on, simultaneously.

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A recitative with full orchestral accompaniment is called?

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accompanied recitative

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Which texture gained prominence in 7th century Venice?

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homophony

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Which 2 characteristics do all plainchants share?

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All are nonmetrical and use medieval modes

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The tone color of a sound is determined by the?

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number and proportion of overtones and the way tey vibrate together

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Amplitude is?

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the level of strenght of sound vibrations

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A healthy human ear can hear from?

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20 to 20,000 cycles per sound

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The outstanding element of a fugue is?

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systematized imitative polyphony

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Basso continuo?

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the bass line and coninuous chords of a Baroque composition

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Our preception of high, low, and medium pitched sounds stems from?

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the range of the human voice

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The Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi is especially remembered for his?

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concertos

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How many movements does a typical concerto have?

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three

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Most of the music of medieval times was preserved for us in musical nottation that was written down by?

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members of religious orders

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Which accurately describes the Baroque treatment of meter?

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Meter became more accepted; bar lines came into use

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The musical term for the level of strenght of a sound is?

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dynamics

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In a piece of music that can be diagrammed as ABA, the A indicates? and the B indicates?

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repetition; contrast

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The term for the initial orchestral melody in a concert grosso that returns from time to time is?

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ritornello

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What characteristic does each of the sung portions of "Christ lag in Todesbanden" share?

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"Halleluja"

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The 8 daily services in cathedrals and monasteries were known collectively as?

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the Divine Office

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A section of a fugue in which new, contrasting material is presented is an

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episode

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The person who first organized congregational hymn singing in Protestant chruches was?

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Martin Luther

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Opera began in?

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Florence

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A ___________ beginning and ____________ cadence is typical of the opening ritornello of the first movement of a Baroque concerto.

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Strong; a strong final

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The musical term for "from the beginning" is?

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da capo

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Castratic generally sang ______ parts?

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soprano or alto solo

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The technique of declaiming words musically in a heightened theatrical manner is called?

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recitative

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What did the Florentines develop, and when?

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opera, around 1600

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Which is not an example of how Venetian composers expanded on the idea of echoing semichoirs?

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echoing semichoirs and using more polyphony than homophony

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The 5 ritornello sections in the first movement of Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in G are?

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all different in some way

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The role of a chant in church services was the determining factor in the chant's?

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genre

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Gregorian chant is so named because Pope Gregory I?

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organized the chants

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A musical composition takes on its form through?

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repetition and contrast

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The musical term for work is?

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opus

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The shape or planned design of a musical composition, the way in which the various sections are deployed in linear time, is called?

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form

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Which is not a characteristic of plainchant?

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It is strongly rhythmic

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The essence of the test of "La Guistizia involves"?

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The encouragement of vengeance and justice

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Music for the mass was?
Music for the daily Office was?

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Complex; simpler

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"Viri Galilae" is an example of a

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Gregorian Introit

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Which composer copied many pages of Vivaldi's concertos in learning how to write in this genre?

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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A medieval mode is?

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one of a system of scales

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The broad term for the way music functions in time is?

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Rhythm

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"O magnum mysterium" was written for?

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Christmas

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The important genre that was used in Lutheran services and that was like a second sermon is called a?

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cantata

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In the Baroque period, rhythm became more?

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regular

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The shape, arrangement, relationship, or organzition of elements in disciplines such as poetyr arts, and music is called?

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FORM

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The Middle Ages, or medieval era, covers the time period of?

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5th century to the 14th & 15th century

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They type of music most likely to be written down in the Middle Ages was?

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religious music

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At the end of the Renaissance an influential group of Florentines reacted against the madrigal because of its?

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word painting and counterpoint

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Who were the most important composers in Venice around 1600?

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Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli

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The "Red Priest" who taught music at an orphanage for girls and wrote much of his music for this institution was?

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Antonio Vivaldi

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"Viri Galilaei" would most likely have been used?

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in the Divine Office