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Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a concerto?

a)

A musical composition for a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra

b)

a lengthy form of musical composition for orchestra, normally consisting of several large sections, or movements

c)

a composition for an instrumental soloist, often with a piano accompaniment, typically in several movements with one or more in sonata form.

d)

rt of combining different melodic lines in a musical composition

2.

What are the tempos of "Summer?"

a)

Slow slow fast

b)

Slow fast slow

c)

Fast slow fast

d)

Fast fast slow

3.

True or false: Vivaldi wrote sonnets, or poems, for each part of the Four Seasons.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

What is program music?

a)

Music that is in a program

b)

Music that has a program

c)

Music that is intended to tell a story

d)

Programmable music

5.

What year did Vivaldi die?

a)

1768

b)

1741

c)

1735

d)

1761

6.

What year was Vivaldi born?

a)

1687

b)

1678

c)

1680

d)

1670

7.

What year did Vivaldi write The Four Seasons?

a)

1720

b)

1719

c)

1718

d)

1717

8.

How many concertos did Vivaldi write?

a)

200

b)

300

c)

400

d)

500

9.

Who hired Vivaldi to write music?

a)

Royalty

b)

Peasants

c)

Simpletons

d)

The president of the US

10.

True or false: Vivaldi was very poor when he died

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Who's Vivaldi?

11.

What is ritornello?

a)

A musical structure consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation

b)

a musical form in 2 related sections, both of which are usually repeated

c)

Music with a main theme that returns several times, with episodes that is played in between each theme

d)

a three-part musical form consisting of an opening section (A), a following section (B) and then a repetition

12.

What is basso continuo?

a)

an accompanying part that includes a bassline and harmonies typically played on a keyboard instrument and with other instruments such as cello or lute.

b)

a bass singer with an exceptionally low range

c)

a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch

d)

Italian term for a 'comic bass' (or baritone) voice, the type principally used for comic roles in 18th-century opera

13.

Cadenza?

a)

the ending of a phrase, perceived as a rhythmic or melodic articulation or a harmonic change or all of these

b)

a technically brilliant sometimes improvised solo passage toward the close of a concerto.

c)

I don't know

d)

Do you know?