MUSI 345 Final Exam Review Spring 20225

What was one purpose of Bach’s preludes?

What important step for opera occurred in 1637?

According to René Descartes and other 17th-century thinkers, the affections were relatively stable states of the soul.

A recurring instrumental refrain is referred to as a ________.

What is meant by "concertato" medium or style?

Elegance and restraint characterized French music during the 1600s.

In some of Bach's chorale preludes, his use of musical figures to symbolize ideas in the original chorale text reveals..

This term refers to a repeating pattern in the bass

In the 1600s, rulers, cities, and aristocratic families supported music and the arts as a way of competing for prestige.

Most leading 18th century European composers came from where?

In the French court of the 1600s, as instruments in the violin family added multiple players on one part...

French musical-dramatic work staged with costumes and scenery, performed by members of the aristocracy & pro dancers

Handel’s most important patrons were the British monarchs.

How did Baroque artists, poets, and musicians evoke theatricality in their works?

The rise of the sonata and the instrumental concerto were partly a result of:

The practice of basso continuo reflects what trend that occurred around 1600?

Whose treatise, Traité de l’harmonie codified tonic, dominant, and subdominant as the pillars of tonality?

Performers were expected to add ornaments to instrumental music in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Instrumental sinfonias served what purpose in several of Handel’s operas?

Gradus ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux is an influential treatise about counterpoint.

Borrowed, transcribed, adapted, rearranged, or parodied music can often be found in Handel’s works.

The overarching form for a da capo aria is 

Which composer's musical output differed for each city in which he worked, as he composed for different jobs?

Most dance music written for solo keyboard or lute was intended to accompany actual dancing.

Why did the music of German composers hold such broad appeal?

To "take a moderate course between... song and the fluent rapid [tones] of speech" describes aria.

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

Handel wrote generic opera arias without specific singers or their abilities in mind.

The trio and solo sonatas of Corelli represent the crowning achievement in Italian chamber music of the late 17th C. 

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

Handel was famous internationally in his lifetime and was the 1st composer whose music has never ceased to be performed.

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

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

Renowned German organist; composer of organ music and sacred vocal works

Couperin blended French and ________ national styles in his music.

English musical-dramatic work staged with costumes and scenery, including dances, choruses, and songs

Frescobaldi was one of the 1st composers of international renown to focus on instrumental music (keyboard especially)

Baroque originally meant bizarre, exaggerated, and in bad taste, but it now has a more positive meaning.

Which genre of organ music served as an introduction before congregational singing?

German music in the seventeenth century was not influenced by other countries.

Baroque composers often juxtaposed or paired very free/flexible rhythms with very strict ones. 

Which group intently studied the writings of the ancient Greeks about music?

French Baroque music employed agréments or ornaments to emphasize important notes and give melodies shape.

In seventeenth-century France, how was a suite normally structured?

Which is not a category that 17th century French royal music was split into?

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

The practice of castrati developed because

Instrumental works rarely borrow elements from different styles and genres.

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

Long interludes of dancing with solo and choral singing, incorporated into an opera

Bach learned composition primarily by copying or arranging the music of other composers.

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

Many of Bach’s sacred cantatas incorporate chorale tunes and orchestral ritornellos.

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

Vivaldi wrote most of his concerti for what instrument?

The English oratorio was invented by which composer?

In music, the Baroque period lasted from approximately

Opera combines poetry, drama, scenery, costumes, stage action, and continuous or nearly continuous music.

What type of work sets the story of Jesus’s crucifixion?

An ensemble whose core consists of strings with more than one player on each part

Who developed the idea of the fundamental bass?

Renaissance scholars disagreed about what types of music ancient Greek tragedies contained.

Why did the Lullistes attack Rameau?

Scarlatti frequently used what form in his cantatas?

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

The action in Handel’s operas develops through

All the following conditions fostered opera in Venice EXCEPT

Oratorios served as a substitute for opera in Italy during Lent or at other seasons when the theaters were closed.

Marks the entrance of the king and welcomes him and the audience to the performance

Bach never reused music in his church cantatas.

Harmonies in Lully’s music tend to

Why did Schütz focus on the small sacred concerto rather than the large, especially in the 1630s and 1640s?

Baroque musicians used ________ as a means of moving the emotions. Examples include trills, appoggiaturas, and mordents.

Cromwell's government in England prohibited stage plays but permitted concerts and musical entertainment, leading to...

Bach learned to write concise themes, clarify the harmonic scheme, & develop subjects into proportioned structures from

Galilei argued that which musical technique created contradictory impressions and obscured the meaning of a text?

What genre originated ca. 1600?

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

1600s composers of instrumental music sought to portray their personal feelings instead of general emotional states.

What was Jacopo Peri known for?

This composer notably used unprepared dissonance to highlight emotional and descriptive text