The Baroque Era Review

The fugue begins with the presentation of the main theme, specifically known as...

How did secular life boom during the Renaissance?

The triad first appeared in the Classical era

The recitative is more dependent on text, while the aria is more dependent on the actual music?

Both religious music and secular music rose in importance during the Baroque era

According to Baroque norms, which voices would primarily receive the melody?

When the melody answers in the dominant key (the V), this is specifically known as...

The listening example below is from a suite, a a Baroque composition style known to emulate...

A bass voice in Baroque music is often reffered to as the continuo

What are terraced dynamics?

This type of musical literature is often associated as a "preview" of the repertoire to come, often paired with fugues

Bach would write vocal music, chamber music, passions, masses, solo music, and orchestral music

Which bass instruments were the prominent bass voices in the Baroque era?

Bach would write nearly 200 cantatas, shorter versions of the oratorio, usually intended for...

Bach's masses, Handel's oratorios, and Milton's Paradise Lost were all influenced by

When translated, what does baroque mean?

The art of the Baroque was primarily feuled with...

The Baroque era is important because it fully adopted...

Baroque sculptures differed from Renaissance sculptures because...

What do the various stops and keyboards allow an organ to do?

The Baroque orchestra would replace Renaissance consorts?

The Baroque composer Monteverdi, would popularize two distinct styles of composition, what are they?

How is an ortatorio different from an opera?

The Messiah is often this composer's most popular work...

Although the bass line would sometimes get the melody, most of the time it would just double the violin

What is figured bass used for?

Select the following Baroque era inventions

The texture of Baroque music changed from equal importance in all parts to a preference with the melody in the top voice

Sequencing refers to the rapid movement between key signatures

The First Practice is often associated with secular music, and the Second Practice is associated with church music

Bach wrote two Passions, which is a type of oratorio

This style of Baroque music, was composed to display masterful and virtuosic keyboard playing. (a Baroque flex)

The early Baroque operas would utilize which two main styles of monodoy?

What Baroque composition can be identified below?

Bach was a man of the church, and Handel was a man of the theater

The aria was usually accompanied by the orchestra

While the Italian style opera dominated southern Europe, whcih style of opera dominated France, England, and Germany?

The Chorale Prelude would play the melody before a Lutheran congregation joined in (an intro of sorts)

The opening section of the fugue is known as the exposition

The Pilgrims fled to the Americas in 1640 on the Mayflower to escape...

Bach wrote a collection of 48 preludes and fugues in every key signature, which was called...

The Baroque doctrine of the affections only allowed

The first printed book in the Americas was...

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of a recitative?

In the Baroque era, vocal music was more important than the instrument

Which two keyboard instruments would become popular during the Baroque?

The popularity of the Italian opera, was largely attributed to what belief?