Baroque Period part 1

Baroque style flourished in music during the period

• 1600 - 1750

• 1000 - 1250

• 1250 - 1450

• 1450 - 1600

By about ____, major or minor scales were the tonal basis of most compositions

• 1680

• 1500

• 1600

• 1750

Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ____ period

• Renaissance

• early baroque

• middle baroque

• late baroque

Affections in baroque usage refers to

• the nobility's manner of deportment

• the doctrine of universal brotherhood

• terraced dynamics

• emotional states or moods of music

The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by

• a dramatic text

• complex harmonic progressions

• repeated rhythmic patterns

• the high dynamic level

Baroque melodies often are

• elaborate and ornamental

• being carelessly composed

• tonal vagueness

• dynamic expansion

Baroque melodies give the impression of

• balance and symmetry

• being carelessly composed

• tonal vagueness

• dynamic expansion

In the baroque era, dynamics consisted mainly of sudden alterations between loud and soft called

• cantus firmus

• terraced dynamics

• basso continuo

• basso ostinato

A large court during the baroque period might employ about ______ performers

• 18

• 24

• 80

• 120

The position of the composer during the baroque period was that of

• a free agent working on commissions

• an equal to the nobility, based on merit

• a high-class servant with few personal rights

• a low-class wandering minstrel