HMW Baroque Questions

Bach’s harpsichord suites show the influence of which national traditions

The three-part texture of a trio sonata typically called for how many instruments

Which characteristic distinguishes Vivaldi’s music from that of Couperin and Rameau

Scholars as well as musicians were crucial to the development of opera

Which of the following best describes the difference between a canzona and a sonata in the early seventeenth century

Fugues were written as both independent pieces and as sections within pieces

What was the leading vocal genre in Italy in the late seventeenth century

What was one purpose of Bach’s preludes

Who developed the idea of the fundamental bass

In the seventeenth century, the stile moderno completely replaced the stile antico.

Rhythms during the Baroque became increasingly free and flexible and therefore pieces did not require bar lines

Bach incorporated last name into musical compositions. Which German designations for notes spell B,A,C,H

Stile antico is associated primarily with which musical technique

The air was the leading genre in vocal chamber music in seventeenth-century France and was usually syllabic and strophic

Vivaldi was the first composer to make the slow movement of a concerto as important as the others

During the early 1600s, a piece in an improvisatory style was called a

One purpose of the da capo aria was to

Unusual skips and dissonances are components of what compositional technique

Timbre is an important and enduring component in French music, including seventeenth-century compositions for the organ

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the evolution of tonality

Roman operas in the 1620s contributed to what important change in the genre

German opera composers occasionally made use of

Early opera composers blended current musical genres with ideas about ancient Greek music and plays.

Handel’s most important innovation in his oratorios was his use of the

What is unusual about Bach’s partita for solo flute and his suites for cello

Although notated simply in the 17th and early 18th centuries, performer expected to add ornaments

A recurring instrumental refrain is referred to as a ritornello.

The superior craftsmanship of Italian-made string instruments contributed to

Why do the genres of Bach’s musical output differ for each city in which he worked

What contributed to the growth of the public concert in Britain

What is the most accurate description of Vivaldi’s ritornello forms

________ helped stimulate music publications, opera houses, and public concerts

What term described overly complex or fussy music in the early eighteenth century

Motets in France: petit motet for soloists, double chorus, and orchestra, grand motet for a few voices with continuo

Why were the arts, especially dance, so important during the reign of Louis XIV

Arias in the early 1600s were generally in what form

Instrumental works often borrow elements from different styles and genres

Bach’s orchestral music was popular and well known during his lifetime

How were instrumental concertos and sonatas related

Performers who realized the figured bass could improvise and vary the piece according to personal taste and ability

What was the primary aim of church music in the seventeenth century

What is the general name for a repeating pattern in the lowest voice of a composition

In the 1600s, a cantus firmus variation refers to what type of variation

Why was Anna Renzi important

Vocal music’s influence on instrumental music can be traced through which organ compositions

To what cultural movement can Rameau’s interest in rational laws of music theory be attributed

The sonata helped to establish the orchestra as the leading instrumental ensemble

The action in Handel’s operas develops through

Giulio Caccini often

What was one cultural reason for the establishment of a collegium musicum

The continuo part in Spanish operas had a distinctive color because it was frequently performed by

Which chord progression did eighteenth-century theorists consider the strongest

Bach focused on composing music for professional performers

Why did composers such as Peri and Monteverdi sometimes employ extreme dissonances in their operas

Why did the music of German composers hold such broad appeal

By the end of the Baroque period, counterpoint became

Ground refers to what type of bass movement

Which composer invented the operatic musical idiom for dialogue known as recitative style