Review of Baroque Music

What is a "suitcase aria"?

Which of the following techniques did Monteverdi NOT use to musically express the words?

What is the Sangamento?

What is the traditional Chinese tale for the origin of the pipa?

J.S. Bach's primary instrument was:

Which is the oldest work to have a continuous performance tradition from when it was composed to today?

Monody is a texture best described as:

What is a cadenza?

Which composer was one of the first to make a career by solely publishing instrumental music?

Which Bach is best known for cultivating Empfindsamer Stil?

What is characteristic of Empfindsamer Stil?

Which instrumentation are you most likely to hear in kunqu?

What is NOT a reason for the existence of castrati in the Baroque era?

Galant style can best be described as:

Why was the Orpheus myth so attractive to early opera composers?

Which of the following genres is characterized by a dance with swinging hip motions?

Which son of Johann Sebastian ended up spending much of his career in London?

Which of the following would NOT be performed for a religious service?

Members of the Arcadian Reform sought to do what to opera?

In which Italian city was the first public commercial opera house built?

Which of the following is NOT a musical characteristic of W.F. Bach's Sonata in F?

While in London, what happened to Handel's career?

What war devastated German-speaking lands and impoverished the arts in Germany?

Which of the following was NOT a harmonic/tuning development in the Baroque era?

Even though he didn't write the first opera, who is considered the first great opera composer?

Which of the following is NOT one of Gluck's operatic reforms?

Which of the following dances in characterized by a lively tempo and complex meter (such as 6/8)?

Who was the most prolific composer of the cantata in the seventeenth-century?

As Italian opera adopted alternating da capo arias and recitatives, what style was most used in French opera?

Which of the following sections of a fugue does NOT include the fugue subject?

Which of the following is the "Elegant Music" used in Chinese imperial courts?

Which of the following does NOT represent a major characteristic of the Baroque period?

What compositional technique did Manuel de Zumaya often use for religious genres at the Mexican cathedral?

J.S. Bach's style is most often characterized by:

Who was the most influential librettist of the 18th century?

What was King Louis XVI's approach to music?

What is Tang Xianzu known for?

What term do we use to describe the writer of an Opera's text/lyrics?

Divertissement in French music is best defined as:

The style of speech-like singing that made early all-sung dramas possible was called:

What was basic formal design for Vivaldi's concertos?

During their time, Handel's instrumental music was better known than J.S. Bach's because:

The standard form of a sonata da chiesa was:

In which city did Handel NOT work?

Which of the following dance genres is in a stately duple meter and stems from German origin?

Which music technique most characterizes the compositional style of the Baroque?

Which of the following trends expressed the words as more important than following traditional harmonic rules?

Which composer is best known for the use of borrowing?

What is NOT a characteristic of the Enlightenment?

Which of the following genres features a small ensemble accompanied by a large orchestra?

What is the correct term for a male vocalist who trains falsetto voice to sing higher parts?

What is the orchestration of a trio sonata?

The Florentine Camerata based their new design of opera on Girolamo Mei's theory that ancient Greek poems and plays:

Who was the most dominant composer in Louis XIV's court?

What is the term used to describe Spanish or Nahuatl-language Christmas carols?

Which genre did J.S. Bach NOT compose?

A toccata is best described as:

The Baroque musical technique most often used to express the affect of LAMENT is:

In which Italian city did the "Camerata" invent opera?

Antonio Vivaldi composed many of his concertos for which institution?