MUS203 Review

The term 'Baroque' comes from...

• French for post-Renaissance

• Portuguese for irregular pearl

• German for broken

• Italian for ornate

Monteverdi represented the seconda pratica which describes vocal polyphony with music and words as equal partners

• True

• False

Flat/ sharp signs above or below the bass notes which indicate the precise notes required in thoroughbass are called

• basso continuo

• accidentals

• musica ficta

• figured bass

Which of the following is NOT a forerunner of opera

• musical

• madrigal

• pastoral drama

• intermedio

This German term refers to a work of art that is the sum total of the individual genres that comprise it

• Lieder

• Gesamtkunstwerk

• Ursatz

• Empfindsamer

This term describes speech set to music for one singer

• recitative

• aria

• concerto

• sonata

The group of instruments who provides a harmonic structure for the upper voices by improvising over a written-out chord progression is

• camerata

• harpsichord

• basso continuo

• recorder concerto

This term describes a specific, extremely popular style of aria where the singer sings a section of music, then sings a contrasting section, and then goes back and repeats the first section again.

• da capo aria

• sonata

• lied

• art song

These arias were occasionally inserting from other operas (by other composers!)

• da capo aria

• trunk aria

• opera buffa

• opera seria

This anonymous publication was a satire on the Venetian professional opera world in the 1700s.

• Musica Enchiriadis

• Ospedalli

• San Marco

• Il Teatro alla Moda