Music History Baroque Quiz

Vivaldis concerti for the Pieta were designed to be both educational and entertaining

Which of the following was not typically included in a suite?

What motivated the development and improvement of wind instruments in seventeenth-century France?

Orotorios are so called becasue they originally

The practice of creating castrati developed because

Collections such as The Art of Fugue and The Well-Tempered Clavier reflect Bach's _______ approach to composition

Which of the following helped stimulate music publications, opera houses, and public concerts?

Which person is most closely associated with Le nuove musiche (New Pieces of Music)?

Ritornello refers to

Lully died of an infection resulting from a conducting-related injury

A young J.S. Bach walked over 200 miles to hear this person perform

Monteverdi, Gabrieli, and Grandi were all associated with what institution?

In music, the Baroque period lasted from approximately

Which of the following refers to picees based on a traditional bass line or harmonic progression?

Vivaldi wrote most of his concerti for what instrument?

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

You find a music manuscript that sets a poem's vivid words with unprepared dissonances. Who is a probable composer?

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

In what context was the stile antico most likely to he heard in the middle of the seventeenth century?

Bach's music was popular and well known during his lifetime

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

What does the increase of printed music for instruments alone during the seventeenth century indicate?

This group intently studied the writings of the ancient Greeks about music.

Musicians used a variety of tuning systems in the 1700s

In the 1600's, French airs de cour sometimes were performed during ballets

You find a previously lost opera by Henry Purcell. What elements might it contain?

At the end of his career, Heinrich Schutz advocated that composers

Dieterich Buxtehude's toccatas are noted for displaying the organ's idiomatic qualities

Giovanni Gabrieli's Sonata pian'e forte was among the first compositions that had specific instruments in printed parts

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