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WorksheetsG9 Music Alcala
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 3mins
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
The center of musical life in the Middle Ages was
the church
dance hall
court
plaza
The term used in the Baroque period to express emotion or mood
Agitation
Jealousy
Affections
Joy
A typical baroque operatic form was the da capo aria in ABA form in which the singer
Would make a literal repetition of the opening A section after the B section
Was expected to embellish the returning melody with ornamental tones
Would insert recitatives between the sections for added variety
Improvise new words for the returning A section
Which of the following forms originated in the Baroque period?
Fugue
Concerto grosso
Oratorio
Opera
all of the above
The Baroque 'trio sonata' is a somewhat misleading title in that it usually involves _____ performers.
3
4
5
2
Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no
Orchestral accompaniment
Acting, scenery, or costumes
Choral parts
Vocal Soloist
Music with one note per syllable wherein new syllables are enunciated at regular intervals regardless of the number of notes per syllable
(a)
The text setting to the Music showed many notes to one syllable is known as
(a)
It is considered as the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation
(a)
It is a style of plainsong (such as Gregorian chanting) in which each syllable is sung as two to four notes.
neumatic
syllabic
melismatic
