G9 Music Alcala

As a Portuguese, my brother says the Baroque period is abnormal

• True

• False

Terraced dynamics involves…

• the sudden shift from soft to loud or from one level to another

• gradual changes through crescendo and decrescendo

• no change in dynamics throughout the piece

Tiny numbers under notes in a Baroque score that tell the musician what chords to play are referred to as...

• Alberti bass

• basso continuo

• figured bass

• counterpoint

In Baroque music, the idea that what is happy will remain happy, and what is sad will stay sad, is called

• change of mood

• unity of rhythm

• unity of mood

• mood stability

The period of European history between ancient and modern times is called what?

• Baroque Period

• Ancient Period

• Medieval Period

• Dark Ages

The Renaissance in music occurred between

• 1450 and 1600

• 450 and 1450

• 1600 and 1750

• 1750 and 1820

Hildegard of Bingen was

• A composer

• A visionary and mystic

• A nun

• all of the above

French nobles, called ----------, composed a large body of secular music during the 12th and 13th centuries.

• Successors

• Troubadours and Trouveres

• Jongleurs

• Minnesingers

The musical representation of specific poetic images is called

• Musical creativity

• Word painting

• Poetic imagery

• Word poems

In the Renaissance, vocal music was ----------- instrumental music

• More important than

• Approximately equal in importance to

• Less important than