Music History 1 CH 10

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

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

The Florentine Camerata was

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

Concertato medium is

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

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

The new texture in the Baroque period stressed

In basso continuo

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

first practice, prima pratica, is

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

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

Intermedi occurred

Concertato ensembles

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

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

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

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

Second practice (seconda pratica) is

Caccini's foreward to Le nuove musiche includes

Where was the first public opera house?

Le nuove musiche by Giulio Caccini is

Which of the following is a typical continuo instrument?

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