Music History 1 CH 10

In the early seventeenth century, the term first practice referred to

The new texture in the Baroque period stressed

The Florentine Camerata was

Which of the following best describes the musical style of Monteverdi's Orfeo?

Caccini's foreward to Le nuove musiche includes

first practice, prima pratica, is

Which of the following became common for the first time in the seventeenth century?

In seeking to better imitate speech in his music, Jacopo Peri invented

In Peri's recitative, what is one way in which music reflects speech patterns?

The first opera to have a longstanding place in the repertory is

Where was the first public opera house?

In basso continuo

How does the Orpheus and Eurydice myth illustrate the power of music to stir the emotions?

For the bulk of Monteverdi's career, his main employment was

Why was Girolamo Mei's theory that all Greek music consisted of a single melodic line significant at this time?

Concertato medium is

According to Claudio Monteverdi, when could the rules governing counterpoint be broken?

Second practice (seconda pratica) is

By the final decades of the seventeenth century, Corelli and Lully were writing music that was...

Which of the following is a typical continuo instrument?

Le nuove musiche by Giulio Caccini is

In Giulio Caccini's Le nuove musiche, the strophic songs were called:

The notation that included symbols around bass notes to indicate chords is called

Intermedi occurred

Concertato ensembles