WorksheetsTest #3 Review Game - Baroque Era
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
The ___________ was a group of artists, writers, and musicians who wanted to resurrect the Musical-dramatic art of ancient Greece.
Thespians Society
Florentine Camarata
Art Deco Committee
Unipol Gruppo
Venice was the first city that _________________ was performed in?
Opera
Basso Continuo
Oratorio
Orchestral Music
The Libretto is the (a) of an opera.
Which Composer brought opera out of the royal courts and into the general public?
Purcell
Handel
Cozzolani
Monteverdi
A festive orchestra includes what types of instruments
Strings
Basso Continuo
Piano
Winds
What type of composition features a solo instrument and an orchestra?
Fugue
Sonata
Baroque Concerto
Toccata
Toccata means (a) and is a type of baroque keyboard music that is written to sound improvised.
(a) means "to sing" in Italian, and is a piece for voices and orchestra, often used in the Lutheran church for services.
Barbara Strozzi was a composer and singer from the baroque era, and was famous for writing arias about ________________, and published 8 volumes of music in their lifetime.
Unfulfilled Love
Tragedy
Life and Death
Love Triangles
A concerto Grosso is a type of composition features up to ____ soloists with orchestra?
2
3
4
5
Figured Bass is a series of numbers under the notes, and is a system of notation used by what instrument?
Violin
Basso Continuo
Oboe
Sackbut
Allemande, Minuet, and Sarabande are all types of dances from what type of composition (a) ?
Who wrote a treatise on harmony that established Major and Minor chords?
Claudio Monteverdi
Barbara Strozzi
Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Jean-Philippe Rameau
(a) is the study of persuasive speaking?
______________________ is the Catholic lead response to the Protestant Reformation
Cantate domino
Counter-Reformation
95 Theses
William Wallace
What type of tuning allows instruments to play in any key or octave without sounding out of tune?
Pure Temperament
Platonic Temperament
Unruly Temperament
Equal Temperament
What does the word “Baroque” mean?
(a)
What skill defined social status within the noble class of the Baroque Courts?
(a)
How much more would you enjoy classical music performance if there were "Claques" - audience members who were paid or bribed by performers to cheer, boo, or hiss certain performers?
A lot more, that could be very entertaining
about the same
That would just be weird
A little more
LESS
Time stops in an opera for this metrical song where the singer expresses their emotions through music. What is this called?
Recitative
Sonata
Aria
Con Sord
