Unit 3: Baroque Ch. 7-10

Claudio Monteverdi served at the court of Mantua for 21 years, then was appointed music director at St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice. Which position was better?

• Court of Mantua

• St. Mark's Cathedral

Monteverdi wrote primarily sacred music

• True

• False

Monteverdi wrote the earliest operatic masterpiece. What was it?

• Erydice

• Dido and Aeneas

• Ceasar

• Orfeo

Which one of these composers was a bridge from the Renaissance era to the Baroque era?

• Purcell

• Monteverdi

• Corelli

• Vivaldi

What did Monteverdi use to create music of emotional intensity?

• Dissonance, orchestral effects such as pizzicato and tremolo

• Consonance, many major triads

• A small consort of strings

• Grand special effects in his opera

What does Tu se' morta mean?

• Two dead people

• You are scared

• You say death?

• You are dead

Henry Purcell was from

• England

• Italy

• Germany

• France

Purcell's only true opera is

• Erydice

• Dido and Aeneas

• Caesar

• Orfeo

Purcell was one of many truly great English composers from the Baroque era through the 20th Century

• True

• False

A musical idea in the bass which is repeated over and over while the melodies above it change is known as

• ground bass, or basso ostinato

• figured bass, or basso continuo

• profound bass, or basso profundo

• comic bass, or basso buffo