Music Unit 3 Test

The composer of the Concerto for The Four Seasons is

• Johann Sebastian Bach.

• Henry Purcell.

• Antonio Vivaldi.

• Antonio Stradivarius.

Which do you hear in the first movement of Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons?

• contrast between ritornello and solo passages

• variation on a melody above a ground bass

• subjects and countersubjects

• A B A’ form

The Brandenburg Concertos were written by

• Johann Sebastian Bach.

• Antonio Vivaldi.

• Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.

• George Frideric Handel.

A concerto grosso emphasizes the contrast between an orchestra and

• a single soloist.

• a small group of soloists.

• another orchestra.

• a continuo.

The instruments heard in the first movement of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are

• oboe, organ, and string orchestra.

• trumpet, flute, harpsichord, and string orchestra.

• flute, violin, harpsichord, and string orchestra.

• violin, harpsichord, and string orchestra.

The Well-Tempered Clavier consists of preludes and fugues based on

• a German folk song.

• every key in both major and minor modes.

• melodies from nature.

• Baroque dance rhythms.

The application of “vocabulary of the emotions” occurs most easily in

• chamber music.

• vocal music.

• solo sonatas.

• orchestral music.

The most important genre in Baroque secular vocal music is

• madrigal.

• chanson.

• opera.

• motet.

Opera seria is a style of Baroque opera that originated in

• Italy.

• France.

• England.

• Germany.

Handel’s most famous oratorio, which is performed frequently today, is

• Julius Caesar.

• Water Music.

• Rodelinda.

• Messiah.