Music History Semester 1 Review

The musical practice of depicting the expressive content of the text.

Which term is synonymous with "ground bass"?

Term that describes the sharp, abrupt dynamic contrast found in the music of the Baroque era.

Which Baroque genre opens with a section called the "exposition"?

Which form did Baroque composers typically use in the 1st and 3rd movement of a concerto grosso

The dramatic text that composers set to music in an opera, oratorio, or cantata is called:

This genre derives text from historical events or mythology and glorified the aristocracy

True or False: InThe Messiah, many of the 19 choruses feature simple homophonic settings.

The belief that people can shape their world and create beautiful art.

Term for the unvarying text of the Mass that are sung virtually every day.

The idea that different musical moods could and should influence the emotions of the listener.

What musical technique contributes to the appeal of Pachelbel's Canon in D?

T or F: The chamber sonata is a composition with 4 dance movements in alternating tempos.

The theme in a fugue is called the:

A melody, harmony, or rhythm that repeats continually throughout a musical composition.

What began in the monasteries of Western Europe around the year 1000?

Identify the genre that is not typical of the late Baroque.

Throughout the Middle Ages, which two groups vied for political control of Europe?

What did the inventors of early opera think they were reviving?

T or F:Rondo form is one of the oldest musical forms and can be traced back to the Middle Ages.

Which musician is credited for inventing the genre of the French overture?

A multi-movement work for solo instrument, or instrument with keyboard accompaniment.

A manner of writing that exploits the strengths and avoids weakness of an instrument.

True or False: The tenor line is always doubled by an instrumental accompaniment.

The most common basso continuo group was the:

Which genre of composition was note used during the Renaissance?

Which individual is not considered a representative composer of the early Baroque period?

A one-movement composition, in free form, originally for keyboard.

What was the single most important genre of music to emerge during the Baroque era?

Troubadours and trouveres invented the musical genre known as:

This composer was very successful during his lifetime and gained popularity in London.

This composer became the most renowned organ virtuoso in Germany.

A series of conflicts between the French and English.

Which composer is known as the "Savior of church music"?

When and where did Baroque music first appear?

What musical technique contributes to the appeal of Pachelbel's Canon in D?

A tightly linked succession of chords that purposefully moves the music.

A genre prominent in early Baroque that consists of a few instruments and a solo singer.

Which genre consists of 2 sections; the first is in slow duple meter, the second in fast triple

T or F: Duple meter was used almost exclusively throughout the Middle Ages?

A spiritual melody or religious folksong of the Lutheran Church.

A bass line that moves at a moderate pace, mostly in equal note values, and often stepwise.

What is the standard musical form of Baroque period dance movements?

Which instrument dominated the sound of the Baroque orchestra.

Which genre is a work where the actors sing all the parts and has stage sets and costumes?

Where did writers, artists, and architects turn for inspiration during the Renaissance?

Which monarch came to epitomize the grandeur and glory of the Baroque era?

A passage of free, non-imitative counterpoint found in a fugue is known as:

Musical notation was originally invented to preserve ___.

The singing style that expresses feeling or emotion rather than narrating the drama's action.

A composition for choir setting a religious, devotional, or solemn text, often sung in Latin.

The soloists in a concerto grosso are called the:

The Baroque Period was from

The numerical shorthand in music?

T or F: Pope Gregory initiated the practice of composing chant and wrote many of the chants.

True or False: The rhythmic ostinatos used in Baroque music give a feeling of stasis.

Musically heightened speech

T or F: Awake A Voice Is Calling was written by Bach to impress a potential employer in Berlin.