Music Chp 13

Front 1

Musicians date the Baroque period from about _____ to about ____.

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1600 to 1750

Front 2

(T/F) The term baroque means distorted or irregular.

Back 2

TRUE

Front 3

Eighteenth-century artists described seventeenth-century art as "baroque" because they found it to be

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strange and impassioned.

Front 4

All of the following ideas are characteristic of the Baroque period except

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-vivid contrasts and contradictions.
-affirmation of both sides of almost any question.
X lack of interest in religion.
-an increase in the importance of secular life.

Front 5

All of the following occurred during the seventeenth century except

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-the opening of the first public opera house.
- the presentation of the first public concerts.
X the increasing reliance of Baroque composers upon a small, aristocratic audience to accept their works.
-the increasing trend among composers to seek public approval.

Front 6

Handel's career as an opera composer made him more dependent on

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the support of the public.

Front 7

(T/F) The quality and quantity of Bach's secular concertos, suites, toccatas, and fugues reflect the increasing importance of secular music in the Baroque period.

Back 7

TRUE

Front 8

(T/F) During the seventeenth century, there were great strides made in scientific research, yet superstition was rampant and the belief in witchcraft, alchemy, and astrology firm.

Back 8

TRUE

Front 9

(T/F) The long and terrible religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries left central Europe largely Protestant and the northern countries largely Roman Catholic.

Back 9

FALSE

Front 10

(T/F) In England, the Anglican church harassed the Puritans, who fled to Holland and then sailed to the New World in 1620 to become America's Pilgrims.

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TRUE

Front 11

The first book printed in America (in 1640) was a psalter, the

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Bay Psalm Book

Front 12

The great artist Michelangelo died in 1564 on the same day that the scientific man of reason, ______________, was born.

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Galileo

Front 13

(T/F) Galileo's father was an influential member of the Florentine Camerata.

Back 13

TRUE

Front 14

Galileo's discoveries about the solar system

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-contradicted the teaching of the Roman Catholic church.
-aroused the attention of the Inquisition.
-were rejected by Galileo himself under the threat of torture.
ALL OF THE ABOVE

Front 15

On the day in 1642 when the Italian Galileo died, _______________ was born.

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Isaac Newton

Front 16

Like Galileo, Newton was fascinated with all of the following except

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-the relationship between the planets and stars.
- the effects of gravity.
- studies of the pendulum, which led to methods of measuring time in music.
X the invention of the metronome in 1816.

Front 17

The art of the Baroque is filled with each of the following except

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-tension.
-drive.
X peace.
-drama.

Front 18

All of the following are characteristics of Baroque art except

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- the direction of the viewer's eye is often directed off the canvas.
-sculpted figures are seething with tension and strain.
X buildings project a sense of repose and stability.
-elaborate and complex decorative ornamentation.

Front 19

Seventeenth-century painters shared with contemporary scientists a fascination with the properties and effects of

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light.

Front 20

The following are all famous Baroque artists except

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- Hals.
- Rubens.
-Vermeer.
X Moliere.

Front 21

(T/F) Although the Church, the courts, and the city-state governments remained their primary employers, Baroque composers resisted submission to the taste and will of their patrons.

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TRUE

Front 22

Baroque musical style was affected by each of the following except

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-secular music becoming as important as sacred.
-as many fine instrumental compositions as vocal pieces.
X homophonic texture becoming more important than polyphony.
-contrasts of timbre, alternation of free and metered rhythms, and abrupt changes of dynamic levels.

Front 23

All of the following were Baroque-era multimovement works except

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-the dance suite.
X the fugue.
-the concerto.
- the sonata.

Front 24

(T/F) According to the doctrine of affections, only one mood was to be expressed within one composition or within one movement of a multimovement work.

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TRUE

Front 25

(T/F) During the Baroque period, the Renaissance style of four or more melodic lines was replaced by the preference for a melody in the highest voice or voices, supported by a strong bass line, with the disposition of the inner voices left largely to improvisation.

Back 25

TRUE

Front 26

During the Baroque period, composers developed the ___________ system, in which every note of the major or minor scale bears a specific relationship to every other note.

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TONAL

Front 27

In the Baroque system of tonality, all of the pitches of a major or minor scale were specifically related to the first note of the scale, or the

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TONIC

Front 28

(T/F) The increasing use of the triad, built upon all the degrees of the scale, gave a sense of stability and harmonic direction to tonal music not inherent in modality.

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TRUE

Front 29

The term, originally meaning irreguar, now applies to the dramatic, emotional style of seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century art

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Baroque

Front 30

Section of a complete work that has its own formal design and a degree of independence but is conceived as a part of the whole; usually separated from other movements by a pause

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movement

Front 31

System of harmony based on the major and the minor scales

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tonal