Baroque Concept Questions 2021

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

___ refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech.

Some of Vivaldi's instrumental concertos were arranged by _____.

The first oratorios were based on ____.

Handel’s Messiah is an example of ____.

A musical ornament consisting of the rapid alternation of two tones that are a whole or half step apart is a _____.

In Bach's day, the Lutheran church service lasted about ______ hour(s).

The text, or book, of a musical dramatic work is called the ____.

Castrati ____.

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

A(n) ____ is an operatic number involving three or more leading singers.

The middle baroque was charaterized by _____.

Of Bach's twenty children, _____ went on to become well-known composers.

The position of the composer during the baroque period was that of ____.

A concerto grosso most often has _____ movement(s).

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

What is a major difference between a cantata and an oratorio?

Composers in the middle baroque phase favored writing compositions for instruments of the ___ family.

The baroque style was well suited to the ______.

To evoke angry/warlike feelings in some of his texts, Monteverdi introduced new orchestral effects (pizzicato & ____).

Most early baroque operas were based on Greek mythology and ___.

______ is a musical idea repeated over and over in the bass while melodies above it constantly change.

The concerto grosso most often has three movements whose tempo markings are _______.

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and _____.

Baroque melodies often are ___.

Members of the Camerata wanted to create a new vocal style based on the ___.

A baroque musical composition usually expresses ____ within the same movement.

Instrmental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ______ period.

The __ is a short instrumental composition based on a hymn tune to remind the congregation of the hymn's melody.

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

A(n) _____ is a musical number for two solo voices with orchestral accompaniment.

Vivaldi was famous and influential as a virtuoso ______.

Monteverdi's vocal music ordinarily was supported by a ___ and other instruments.

The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of ____.

Which of the following is not true of Vivaldi?

Vivaldi spent most of his life working at an institution for orphaned and illegitimate girls in _____.

To what does terraced dynamics refer?

To what does the word movement in music normally refer?

Bach's personal musical style was drawn from _____.

Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no ______.

The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the ____.

The _ is the person who beats time, indicates expression, cues musicians, and controls the balance.

To achieve intensity of expression Monteverdi used _ with unprecedented freedom and daring.

Monteverdi, an early baroque composer, strove to create music that was ______.

An __ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain risess on a dramatic work.

A type of polyphonic composition based on one main theme is a _____.

While at Leipzig, what did Bach do?

Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas was originally written to be performed by ___.

George Frideric Handel was born in 1685, the same year as _____.

The word baroque has at various times meant all of the following except ____.

The main theme of a fugue is called the ___.

Bach achieves unity of mood in his compositions by using _____.

In their use of aria, duet, and recitative, Bach's cantatas closely resemble the _______ of the time.

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in _____ form.

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the ___.

A sung, or chorale work with or without vocal soloists, usually with orchestral accompaniment is the _______.

The Lutheran chorale tunes ______.

In the baroque era, dynamics consisted mainly of sudden alternations between loud & soft called _____.

Affections in baroque usage refers to what?

Bach created masterpieces in every baroque form except ____.

The early baroque was characterized by ___.

The stage machinery of baroque opera _____.

Congregational singing of chorales was an important way for people to ____.

The early and late baroque periods differed in that composers in the late baroque ____.

Dido and Aeneas, which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English text, was composed by _____.

A popular keyboard instrument in which sound was produced by means of brass blades striking the strings was the _____.

In Italy, music schools were often connected with ____.

The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by ________.

A Vivaldi concerto usually has ______ movements.

The ____ is a Lutheran congregational hymn tune.

A large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, & orchestra usually set to a biblical narrative, is called a(n) _.

A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called a(n) ____.

The principal means of musical expression in the Lutheran service was the ______.

The members of the Camerata wanted the vocal line of their music to follow ______.