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WorksheetsBaroque Era in Music
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What were affections, in the Baroque?
Love interests
A desire for good music
Another name for emotions
The interaction between music and listener
Performances of music by several spatially separated choirs of voices and/or instruments is knowns as what?
A sonata
Linear polyphony
Polychoral music
A round, or canon
Giovanni Gabrieli:
Created a great deal of polychoral music for instruments
Wrote many compositions for St. Mark's basilica
Was first to use written dynamics in his music
All of these
Appreciation for contrasts led to music compositions that consisted of semi-independent sections that are called:
Movements
Affections
Stile antico
None of these
A system where every note of the major or minor scales bears a specific relationship to every other note, and all are related to tonic:
The Doctrine of Affections
The Tonal System
The Piano Keyboard
The First and Second Practice
Claudio Monteverdi was known for which of the following:
Articulating what stile antico and stile moderno was
Wrote the first known musical drama called Opera
Pioneered the use of recitative and aria
All of these options
The First and Second Practices were:
The first two rehearsals (practices) of the very first opera
A description of how music should be for both the church, and secular performances
A description for how to create recitative and arias, in opera
The idea that performances should take only two practices to prepare for
What are librettos?
Singers who had a very high range
The dogmatic use of recitative and aria
The text of an opera
The Italian word for dancers
Composers in the Baroque period recognized the need for two types of solo singing, specifically in operas. They were:
the First and Second Practice
Melody and Harmony
Aria and Recitative
Form and Analysis
George Frideric Handel is best remembered for what type of composition?
Oratorios
Operas
Sonatas
Cantatas
How were oratorios and cantatas different?
Oratorios were in Latin, cantatas in the vernacular
Cantatas were intended for church performance, while oratorios were secular
Oratorios had religious texts, cantatas did not
Cantatas were German, while oratorios were English
A fugue is a polyphonic composition with two to six melodic lines. What was the basic form for a fugue?
Subject / Answer / Subject / Answer
Subject / Predicate / Subject / Predicate
A B A C A
None of these options
A multimovement work, typical of sets of dance pieces is known as what?
Sonata
Cantata
Suite
Toccata and Fugue
A type of shorthand for the basso continuo, placing numbers below the bass line, is known as what?
Figured bass
Jazz notation
Concertato principle
None of these options
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of chamber music?
Pieces performed by a small instrumental ensemble
One instrument per line of music
Music intended for a smaller performance hall, or room
Multiple instruments per line of music
What is the main difference between a Concerto Solo and a Concerto Grosso?
Concerto grossos are intended for the church, solos are not
Concerto solos are intended for one soloist, grossos are multiple soloists
Concerto solos are so low they are hard to hear, while grossos are just gross
None of these options
