Exam 3: Baroque and Classical

Who is Don Giovanni, in Mozart's opera of that name?

Members of the Camerata wanted to create a new vocal style based on what source?

The longest period of J.S. Bach's professional life was spent as director of music at St. Thomas's Church in ______.

Where did Monteverdi spend the greater part of his career?

An ______ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.

What musical form refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech?

Baroque style flourished in music during which period?

Mozart tried to find fame and fortune by moving to ________, at the age of 25.

Many early baroque operas were based on what subject?

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ______ of his day.

Which of the following is not an opera of Mozart's?

What form is typically used as the first movement of a multi-movement Classical work?

Who composed Dido and Aeneas, which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English text?

The orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the ______ family.

Which is the rhythm to the opening motive of Beethoven's 5th Symphony?

How old was Mozart when he wrote his first symphony?

What did Mozart do between the ages of 6-15?

Which singer has a low range and usually takes comic roles?

What term is used to describe a notated bass part together with numbers that specify the chords to be played above it?

Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were active in ______, a bustling center for European music at the time.

Classicism, as a stylistic period in Western music, roughly encompassed the years ______.

What feature of baroque music was no longer used in the music of the classical period?

During the baroque period, _______ were not allowed to be employed as music directors.

Where was Mozart Born?

What is a song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment called?

What is a symphony?

An ______ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work.

Monteverdi, an early baroque composer, strove to create music that had what characteristic(s)?

What is the text, or book, of a musical dramatic work called?

Sonata form consists of three main parts: exposition, development, and _________.

Beethoven is credited for which role?

Bach created masterpieces in every baroque genre except ______.

What is a primary feature of baroque music?

Which composer is NOT considered a master of the classical period?