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The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel
Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Baroque style flourishe in music during the period
1600-1750
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Baroque painters exploited their materials to expand the potential of ___________ to create totally structure worlds
Color, Ornament and detail, depth
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The early baroque was characterized by
homophonic texture
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Composers in the middle baroque phase favored writing compositions for instruments of the ____________ family.
violin
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Affections in baroque usage refers to
emotional states or moods of music.
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A baroque musical composition usually expresses ____________ within the same movement.
one basic mood
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The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by
repeated rhythmic patterns.
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Baroque melodies often are
elaborate and ornamental.
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Melodic sequence refers to
the successive repetition of a musical idea at higher or lower pitches
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Terraced dynamics refers to
the sudden alternation from one dynamic level to another.
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The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the
harpsichord.
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The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of
basso continuo.
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The word movement in music normally refers to
a piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition.
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The position of the composer during the baroque period was that of
a high-class servant with few personal rights.
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In Italy, music schools were often connected with
orphanages.
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The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the
tutti.
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Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 is unusual in that
it gives a solo role to the harpsichord.
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A polyphonic composition based on one main theme is the
fugue.
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The main theme of a fugue is called the
subject.
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An ____________ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.
opera
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The text, or book, of a musical dramatic work is called the
libretto.
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____________ refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech.
Recitative
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An ____________ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work.
overture
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Members of the Camerata wanted to create a new vocal style based on the
music of the ancient Greek tragedies.
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The stage machinery of baroque opera
bordered on the colossal
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Castrati
- received the highest fees of any musicians.
- combined the lung power of a man with the vocal range of a woman.
- were male singers who had been castrated before puberty.
- All answers are correct.
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Embellishments are
ornamental tones not printed in the music that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century performers were expected to add to the melody
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____________ is a musical idea repeated over and over in the bass while melodies above it constantly change.
Basso ostinato
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Baroque trio sonatas usually involve ____________ performers.two
four
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Vivaldi wrote approximately ____________ concerti grossi and solo concertos
450
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Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____________ of his day.
organist
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Sets of dance-inspired instrumental movements are called
suites.
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A two-part collection of preludes and fugues, one in each major and minor key, basic to the repertoire of keyboard players today, is Bach's
Well-Tempered Clavier.
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The ____________ is a Lutheran congregational hymn tune
chorale
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A sung piece, or choral work with or without vocal soloists, usually with orchestral accompaniment, is the
cantata.
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A large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text, is called
oratorio.
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Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no
acting, scenery, or costumes.
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The ____________ in an oratorio is especially important and serves either to comment on or to participate in the drama.
chorus
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Handel's Messiah is an example of
Oratorio
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