The Baroque Era – Flashcards
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Romantic or Classic era?
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Romantic
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What work is Vivaldi most known for?
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"The Four Seasons"
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What works are Bach most known for?
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"Cantata Wachet auf" and "The Art of Fugue"
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What work is Purcell most known for?
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"Dido and Aeneas"
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What works are Handel most known for?
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"Water Music" and "Messiah"
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What was the texture of music in the Baroque Era?
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Homophonic
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What jobs for musicians came out of the Baroque Era?
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-Court Composers -Orchestra Members
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What was new to music in the Baroque Era?
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Major/Minor System of Tonality
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What are the "Buzz Words" of the Baroque Era?
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Contrast and Drama
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Opera (definition)
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large scale musical drama that combines poetry, acting, scenery, and costumes with singing and instrumental music
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Libretto (definition)
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the text of an opera
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Aria (definition)
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dramatic piece, typically in response to the Recitative
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Recitative (definition)
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musical declamation, or speech; sung dialogue than can be used to move the plot along
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What language was Opera usually written and performed in?
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The vernacular tongue of the place
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What change in music was introduced in the Lutheran church?
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-instrumentation -hymns meant for congregational singing -Cantatas
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Oratorio (definition)
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-sacred, but not for the church -operatic style, but not staged
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What does NOT characterize the Baroque suite?
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Each movement is in a contrasting key
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Women's roles in Baroque music:
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expanded into professional performance careers, including as opera singers
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Handel's Water Music is best described as a:
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suite
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Vivaldi lived and worked in:
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Venice
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The ideas and music of the Florentine Camerata led directly to the development of
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Opera
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Johann Sebastian Bach was most famous in his day as a performer on:
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the organ
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George Frideric Handel is considered a master of
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the oratorio
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Later in life, Handel turned his efforts from the opera to
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the oratorio
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Handel's Messiah is
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an oratorio
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A drama that is sung is called:
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an opera
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A highly emotional song in an opera is called:
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an aria
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The approximate dates of the Baroque period are
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1600-1750
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What is the principal element of a fugue?
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counterpoint
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What is NOT a characteristic of Baroque musical style?
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harmonies built on the early church modes
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TRUE/FALSE: Antonio Vivaldi composed over two hundred concertos for solo violin.
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TRUE
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Dido sings her famous lament in Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas just prior to
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killing herself
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What does NOT characterize music after 1600?
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instrumental music was neglected
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Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas was composed for:
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a production at a girls' school
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The ___ is a keyboard instrument whose strings are plucked by quills.
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harpsichord
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The Baroque period witnessed a shift in musical texture to:
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homophony
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The first era of Western music history in which instrumental music was a major focus for composers was the:
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Baroque
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TRUE/FALSE: Barbara Strozzi was an international sensation as an opera singer.
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FALSE
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During his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach held the position of: -cantor of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig -court organist and chamber musician to the Duke of Weimar -court musician to the prince of Anhalt-then -all of the above
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all of the above
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Antonio Vivaldi was known as "The Red Priest" for:
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the color of his hair
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Baroque composers applied the concept of the suite to: -solo instrumental music -keyboard music -orchestral music -all of the above
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all of the above
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What was NOT an important keyboard instrument during the Baroque?
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the piano
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The group of early Baroque writers, artists and musicians whose aim was to resurrect the musical drama of ancient Greece was known as:
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The Florentine Camerata
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The solo instrument in Spring, from The Four Seasons, is the
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violin
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The keyboard instrument that uses various sets of pipes to create contrasting colors is:
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the organ
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What does NOT characterize the Baroque era?
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an age of peace and tranquility
