Music Test 3

Front 1

_______ was the great, new musical "invention" of the Baroque Era.

Back 1

opera

Front 2

The chief vocal forms in he Early Baroque were _________ and ___________.

Back 2

opera

cantata

Front 3

Opera was a big business during he Baroque Era.

Back 3

true

Front 4

A sonata is performed by an orchestra.

Back 4

false

Front 5

_________ are chamber works that are smaller in scale than concertos and less dependent on contrast.

Back 5

Sonatas

Front 6

A concerto is a woodwind instrument.

Back 6

flase

Front 7

All Baroque music has a strong bass line.

Back 7

true

Front 8

Who bridged the Renaissance and Baroque by writing both Renaissance-style madrigals and Baroque operas?

Back 8

Monteverdi

Front 9

Monteverdi died at a very young age.

Back 9

false

Front 10

Monteverdi wrote one of the first preserved operas based on the story of _____________.

Back 10

Orpheus & Eurydice

Front 11

_________________ are close to speech and designed to mirror the emotional state of the singer. (Used for conversations in opera.)

Back 11

Expressive Recitative

Front 12

The distinction that came about in opera between the lyrical part and the conversational part is now called the _________ and ______________.

Back 12

aria

recitative

Front 13

Purcell was born in __________.

Back 13

London

Front 14

Henry Purcell's best known work is short opera called: _________________

Back 14

Dido and Aeneas

Front 15

Corelli was one of the first composers to become famous for writing exclusively _______ music, to bring _______ violin music to International prominence, and writing to "show off" the _________.

Back 15

instrumental

Italian

Violin

Front 16

King _________ of France was an avid supporter of the arts and French music flourished under his reign.

Back 16

Louis XIV

Front 17

Vivaldi's nickname was ________________.

Back 17

"The Red Priest"

Front 18

What did Bach's final position as director of music at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig require him to do?

-responsible for

-compose

-serve as head of

Back 18

-all of the town's church music

-a new church cantata for every Sunday and feast day of the year.

-the music school attached to St. Thomas'

Front 19

The two main key board instruments of the Baroque era were the harpsichord and the _________.

Back 19

organ

Front 20

Which Baroque composer was born in Germany, but worked in London and is buried in Westminster Abbey?

Back 20

George Fredrick Handel

Front 21

A major philosophical movement during the classic era was the _______________, which strove to improve _____________, eliminate prejudice and break down social barriers, which led to greater opportunities for public music performances.

Back 21

Enlightenment

education

Front 22

Louis XIV of France was one of the "enlightened monarchs" who employed Mozart and supported the arts.

Back 22

true

Front 23

Classic music was a reaction to the complexity of Baroque music and was ___________ to listen to and _______ to play.

Back 23

easier

easier

Front 24

Mozart was pleased when he was told that everyone on the streets of Prague was singing the tunes from his latest opera.

Back 24

true

Front 25

Classic music was made of the long lines that were common in the Baroque era.

Back 25

false

Front 26

"Freemasonary" cut across the boundaries of classs, profession and gender, and became an era in which women became prolific composers and writers.

Back 26

false

Front 27

In the Baroque era, music publishing became a profitable business and the middle-class wanted to learn to play music themselves.

Back 27

true

Front 28

Ground bass is a characteristic of Classic music.

Back 28

true

Front 29

During the Classic era, Masses and Oratorios grew in popularity.

Back 29

true

Front 30

What were some of the complaints regarding the Baroque Opera?

-The music was too ____________.

-The plots were always about __________ or _______.

-The ______ arias repeated the opening section (ABA aria form) which interrupted the flow.

Back 30

-heavy and complex

-mythical or historical

-arias

Front 31

Comic Opera can also be called ______________.

Back 31

opera buffa, opera comique, singspiel

Front 32

Which Classic genre began as an overture for Ialian Opera?

Back 32

symphony

Front 33

The second movement of the symphony is usually _______ and _______.

Back 33

slow and lyrical

Front 34

What became a new Classic genre?

Back 34

comic opera

Front 35

Johann Stamitz played solos on flute concertos while conducting.

Back 35

flase

Front 36

The most important center of symponic composition and performance in the early Classic Era was: _____________, Germany.

Back 36

Mannheim

Front 37

Trumpets and drums were used in the Classic orchestra for only special ceremonial symphonies.

Back 37

true

Front 38

Hayden and Mozart used conventional rules while composing their music.

Back 38

true

Front 39

A string quartet has _______ violins and _____ double basses.

Back 39

2

1

Front 40

Chamber music was written for an intimate setting such as a ________ room with a _______ group of instruments.

Back 40

small

small

Front 41

Sonata form contains: ___________,_____________,____________, and ___________.

Back 41

exposition, development, recapitulation, and coda.

Front 42

The minuet and Trio are in duple meter.

Back 42

false

Front 43

ABACABA is an example of ________ form.

Back 43

rondo

Front 44

Hayden worked for a royal family named the __________________.

Back 44

Esterhazy

Front 45

In upper class society (which included court composers), the proper dress code included: ______________ wigs, ___________ coats, and ___________ shoe buckles.

Back 45

powdered wigs

brocaded coats

silver shoe buckles

Front 46

What was a favorite musical joke of Haydn's?

Back 46

false recapitulation

Front 47

Mozart was a child _________.

Back 47

prodigy

Front 48

Name three of Mozart's famous operas:

Back 48

The Magic Flute

Don Giovanni

The Marriage of Figaro