Chapter 2-3 test NES

Modern historians use the term baroque to indicate what?

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the _____

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in what form?

Much of the instrumental music composed during the renaissance was intended for what purposes

The large group of players in a concertó grosso is known as the

The ____ was the most popular instrument in the renaissance home

What group of medieval musicians lived on the lowest level of society performing music, acrobatics, stories, and dances

When the subject of a fugue is presented in the dominant scale it is called what

What aspect of palestrina’s music was prized by advocates in the counter-reformation movement?

A ___ is a musical number for two solo voices with orchestral accompaniment

Affections in baroque usage refers to what?

Many early baroque operas were based on what subject

What is the renaissance motet?

During the Middle Ages, what institution was the center of musical life?

The basic scales of western music during the Middle Ages were called church ____

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

Handel’s Messiah is an example of what genre?

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

Baroque melodies often feature what characteristic?

Hansel’s oratorios are usually based on what subject

What feature of baroque music uses successive repetitions of a musical idea at higher or lower pitches?

Who was a leading English composer of lute song

The two giants of baroque composition were Handel and ____

Between what approximate dates did the renaissance music occur?

The ars nova style differed from older music in what way?

Where was the leading music center in 16th century Europe

What is the Name for the movement which the Catholic Church sought to correct abuse & malpractices within its structure

What innovation of the school of notre dame can be seen in the music manuscripts of Leonin and Perotin?

What is the renaissance madrigal?

Lute songs are mostly _____ in texture

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

Vivaldi was famous and influential as a virtuoso ___

Which historical composer was a visionary and mystic who also held duties as the abbess of the convent at rupertsberg?

The ____ is a Lutheran congregational hymn tune

A large scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text is ___

Sets of dance inspired instrumental movements are called

The main theme of a fugue is called what

In the Middle Ages, who were the most important musicians?

Who was a famous French troubairitz

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

The terms ars nova refers to what?

The late baroque period spanned what years?

What type of music is Barbara strozzi best known for?

Who was NOT a major baroque composer

What is a common feature of baroque instrumental music?

The first oratorios were based on what source material?

An ____ is a play set to music sung to orchestral accompaniment with scenery costumes and action

Baroque style flourished in music during which period?

Handel is associated with which period

what statement about medieval music is NOT true

Bach created masterpieces in every genre EXCEPT

Who held a virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages

What description is NOT true or Gregorian chant

Who composed dido And aeneas which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English text

To what does terraced dynamics refer

What is a primary feature of baroque music?

What happened sometimes between 700 and 900 that led to the development of polyphony in western music?

Today, what singing type performs a castrato part in baroque opera?

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

The early baroque period spanned what years

What is a cantus firmus

Gregorian chant is ___ in texture

The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was _____

What was a focus of the intellectual movement called humanism

One of the major characteristics of arts nova music is its use of what feature?

The two main forms of sacred renaissance music are the mass and the ____

The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning ____

Why did the council of Trent attack the church music of the renaissance?

How can the position of the composer during the baroque period be described?

Why are renaissance melodies usually easy to sing

A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear popular during the renaissance

Who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians, and controls the balance among instruments and voices?

To what does the word movement in music normally refer?

to what does a cappella refer?

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____ of his day

Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no____