MUHI Baroque Exam Study Game

What solo instrument is featured in Vivaldi’s "Spring" concerto?

Vivaldi is noted for writing instrumental music that depicts a scene without the use of sung words.

Which best describes the melodic shape of the bass line in this aria, depicting Dido's grief?

Which best describes the melody of this aria?

Händel composed in all genres except opera.

Which of the following does not describe Henry Purcell’s life and career?

What instrumental form is based on the opposition between two dissimilar bodies of sound?

In which order do the voices present the subject in this example?

A large-scale dramatic genre with a sacred text performed by solo voices, chorus, & orchestra.

Trumpets of the Baroque era were “natural,” meaning they had no valves.

The harpsichord's strings are _______ by quills.

Which of the following is true about Cozzolani’s musical output?

This piece is from what era?

In fugues, overlapping statements of a subject (melody) is referred to as:

Program music is music that has a literary link of some kind.

In 18th century New England, notation called ___ evolved to help improve solfège instruction.

Which genre is Händel said to have invented?

What is first section of a fugue called?

Which of the following describes this example?

Händel’s Messiah has been performed frequently since its debut.

Who has the chorale melody in this example?

Keyboard players improvised and created free-form pieces called preludes or ________.

The fugue is based on what principle?

Which best describes the tempo heard?

What is the texture when people sing the same melody at the same time, but each singer is modifying the tune slightly

What is the unifying formal structure used in this example?

Henry Purcell wrote the dramatic opera Orfeo.

The Baroque Oratorio utilized scenery, acting, and costumes, just as in opera.

What is the form of this example?

Although he is known today as a composer, in his own day Antonio Vivaldi was better known as a performer.

The text for Händel’s Messiah comes from Dante’s “Inferno.”

The music of the Baroque Era was not highly extravagant, expressive, or embellished.

Music in the Baroque Era became increasingly ________ in nature.

Which of the following operas is written by Händel?

The sections in a fugue that do not contain the subject are the…

Many of J. S. Bach's cantatas are based on Lutheran chorale or hymn tunes.

Why does Dido sing a lament at the end of Purcell’s opera?

What texture best describes the voices in the opening chorus?

Vivaldi is known for having written 500 concertos, about 230 of which were written for solo _____

The Italian opera was embraced in all western European countries.