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_______ was the great, new musical "invention" of the Baroque Era. |
opera |
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The chief vocal forms in he Early Baroque were _________ and ___________. |
opera cantata |
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Opera was a big business during he Baroque Era. |
true |
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A sonata is performed by an orchestra. |
false |
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_________ are chamber works that are smaller in scale than concertos and less dependent on contrast. |
Sonatas |
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A concerto is a woodwind instrument. |
flase |
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All Baroque music has a strong bass line. |
true |
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Who bridged the Renaissance and Baroque by writing both Renaissance-style madrigals and Baroque operas? |
Monteverdi |
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Monteverdi died at a very young age. |
false |
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Monteverdi wrote one of the first preserved operas based on the story of _____________. |
Orpheus & Eurydice |
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_________________ are close to speech and designed to mirror the emotional state of the singer. (Used for conversations in opera.) |
Expressive Recitative |
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The distinction that came about in opera between the lyrical part and the conversational part is now called the _________ and ______________. |
aria recitative |
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Purcell was born in __________. |
London |
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Henry Purcell's best known work is short opera called: _________________ |
Dido and Aeneas |
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Corelli was one of the first composers to become famous for writing exclusively _______ music, to bring _______ violin music to International prominence, and writing to "show off" the _________. |
instrumental Italian Violin |
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King _________ of France was an avid supporter of the arts and French music flourished under his reign. |
Louis XIV |
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Vivaldi's nickname was ________________. |
"The Red Priest" |
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What did Bach's final position as director of music at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig require him to do? -responsible for -compose -serve as head of |
-all of the town's church music -a new church cantata for every Sunday and feast day of the year. -the music school attached to St. Thomas'
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The two main key board instruments of the Baroque era were the harpsichord and the _________. |
organ |
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Which Baroque composer was born in Germany, but worked in London and is buried in Westminster Abbey? |
George Fredrick Handel |
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A major philosophical movement during the classic era was the _______________, which strove to improve _____________, eliminate prejudice and break down social barriers, which led to greater opportunities for public music performances. |
Enlightenment education |
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Louis XIV of France was one of the "enlightened monarchs" who employed Mozart and supported the arts. |
true |
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Classic music was a reaction to the complexity of Baroque music and was ___________ to listen to and _______ to play. |
easier easier
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Mozart was pleased when he was told that everyone on the streets of Prague was singing the tunes from his latest opera. |
true |
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Classic music was made of the long lines that were common in the Baroque era. |
false |
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"Freemasonary" cut across the boundaries of classs, profession and gender, and became an era in which women became prolific composers and writers. |
false |
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In the Baroque era, music publishing became a profitable business and the middle-class wanted to learn to play music themselves. |
true |
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Ground bass is a characteristic of Classic music. |
true |
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During the Classic era, Masses and Oratorios grew in popularity. |
true |
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What were some of the complaints regarding the Baroque Opera? -The music was too ____________. -The plots were always about __________ or _______. -The ______ arias repeated the opening section (ABA aria form) which interrupted the flow. |
-heavy and complex -mythical or historical -arias |
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Comic Opera can also be called ______________. |
opera buffa, opera comique, singspiel |
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Which Classic genre began as an overture for Ialian Opera? |
symphony |
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The second movement of the symphony is usually _______ and _______. |
slow and lyrical |
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What became a new Classic genre? |
comic opera |
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Johann Stamitz played solos on flute concertos while conducting. |
flase |
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The most important center of symponic composition and performance in the early Classic Era was: _____________, Germany. |
Mannheim |
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Trumpets and drums were used in the Classic orchestra for only special ceremonial symphonies. |
true |
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Hayden and Mozart used conventional rules while composing their music. |
true |
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A string quartet has _______ violins and _____ double basses. |
2 1 |
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Chamber music was written for an intimate setting such as a ________ room with a _______ group of instruments. |
small small |
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Sonata form contains: ___________,_____________,____________, and ___________. |
exposition, development, recapitulation, and coda. |
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The minuet and Trio are in duple meter. |
false |
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ABACABA is an example of ________ form. |
rondo |
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Hayden worked for a royal family named the __________________. |
Esterhazy |
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In upper class society (which included court composers), the proper dress code included: ______________ wigs, ___________ coats, and ___________ shoe buckles. |
powdered wigs brocaded coats silver shoe buckles |
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What was a favorite musical joke of Haydn's? |
false recapitulation |
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Mozart was a child _________. |
prodigy
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Name three of Mozart's famous operas: |
The Magic Flute Don Giovanni The Marriage of Figaro |