Dual Enrollment Music: Early Baroque

For the better part of ________________, opera has been the most spectacular and lavish form of stage entertainment in Western culture.

• four centuries
• four decades
• a half-century

By the mid-seventeenth century, opera had become:

• the first commercial music
• outdated and practically forgotten
• the first a cappella music

When “Queen” wanted to make an artistic statement, they called their song Bohemian Rhapsody:

• a rock opera

• a soap opera

• a tribute to Wagner

Opera is:

• drama, either tragic or comic, in which all dialogue is sung
• only performed today at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House 
• only for the wealthy class

Recitative is:

• a section of an opera that generally contains dialogue to further the action
• opera performed in a recital setting
• never sung in English

Girolamo Mei, an Italian Renaissance historian who produced the first serious study of Greek music, proposed that all Greek Drama was:

• sung and not spoken
• strongly influenced by Florentine musicians
• sacred and was performed by chanting monks

In 1613, Monteverdi took a position as the director of:

• music at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, where he stayed for the rest of his life
• music at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, where he stayed for only 2 months
• several opera houses

Monteverdi’s eight books of ___________________ represent the final significant contribution to that genre.

• madrigals
• operas
• chant

Early opera composers chose as their subject the most famous musical story of all:

• The Legend of Orpheus and Eurydice
• The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
• The Legend of Zelda

Basso continuo is:

• a continuous bass line, as well as harmony built on the bass, in the support of the melody
• a concept that was introduced with Gregorian Chant
• a vocal composition in which the bass singer never rests