MUTH 255 Fall 2019 Baroque Music

Italian opera of the late 17th century made extensive use of ballet.

The word "baroque" means

The second volume of Georg Muffat's Florilegium is noteworthy for its

While at Arnstadt, Bach walked on foot to Lübeck to hear the music of

Which is not true of the historia

In French music, notes written as though equal are often played in unequal durations. This is known as

Jean Philippe Rameau was the first music theorist to explain

L'estro armonico, Vivaldi's Op. 3, was published

The career of Heinrich Schütz was impacted by the

A full da capo  aria typically has how many sections?

At Anhalt-Cöthen, Bach wrote the majority of his sacred music.

Biagio Marini is noted for having

The Musical Offering was written for

Vivaldi's works are identified by thematic catalogue numbers that were assigned by

In the Goldberg Variations, every third movement is a

Which of the following are characteristic of sonatas da chiesa?

Oratorios were performed in church.

Henry Purcell wrote incidental music for

The formal design of most Baroque dance movements is

An important composer of oratorios was

The treatise 1716 L’art de toucher le clavecin; rev. 1717 was written by

The execution of which monarch led to the Commonwealth Era?

Vivaldi was a prolific composer of concertos and wrote approximately

Bach never traveled more than 300 miles from the place of his birth.

Giuseppe Torelli wrote trumpet concertos for

The term "galanterien" designates

The genre of pieces called ricercari typically

Bach completed the Brandenburg Concertos while at Anhalt-Cöthen.

The French Shakespeare of the 17th century was

The collection of preludes and fugues with one for each of the twelve major and twelve minor keys of the scale is

When we refer to a "broken" consort, we mean an ensemble with

Which of the following instrumental genres does not rely on imitative polyphony?

Italian opera of the late 17th century made extensive use of chorus.

A simple, chordal harmonization of a recitation formula is known as a

How many soloists does a concerto grosso typically have?

The first movement of Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D has a conspicuous solo part for

Johann Sebastian Bach played

Antonio Vivaldi spent the majority of his career in

The Musical Offering is based on a musical subject by

Recitativo secco is accompanied by

Which of the following are characteristic of sonatas da camera?

In a tragédie lyrique, the divertissements contain

Which of the following were important families of violin makers?

Heinrich Schütz studied in

The sarabanda is typically

The concertos of Vivaldi's L'estro armonico were very much admired by this composer, who made solo keyboard arrangements

At Weimar, Bach's primary responsibility was as

The vingt-quatre violons du roi were distributed as follows:

The first woman who wrote an opera was

Antonio Vivaldi worked at the Pio Ospedale della Pieta, which was a