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Quiz 3
Final Review
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Music
Undergraduate 1
04/16/2014

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Briefly define the term Baroque
Definition
Baroque is a period from 1600-1750. It was very dramatic, flamboyant, decorative, and emotion in the arts. Music, literature, and story telling all helped or were a part of the music
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Outline at least three socio-economic influences on the Baroque era
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Counter Reformation was a movement towards the church. Although the Reformation from before that time played a role, the counter Reformation played a big role. Also, the 30 Year War was also a big influence because people didn't want to worry about fighting, but it brought them back to the church
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Briefly describe the functions of Baroque music
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One function of Baroque music was to get music out of solely the church and focus more on the instrumental aspect than the vocal aspect. Another function was to tell a story without people or props or like an opera with people, props, and lighting
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When was the Baroque era?
Definition
1600-1750
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Who were the two giants of Baroque composition?
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Bach and Handel
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By about 1680, what kind of scales were the tonal basis of most compositions, replacing the church modes
Definition
Major and minor
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True or false: Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the late Baroque
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True
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True or false: Baroque melodies often are elaborate and ornamental
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True
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The sudden change from one dynamic level to another
Definition
Terrace dynamic
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What are the main keyboard instruments of the Baroque?
Definition
Harpsichord and the clavichord
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What family of instruments was perfected by Corelli during the Baroque
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String
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A piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a large composition
Definition
Movement
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True or false: A large court during the Baroque might employ as many as 80 performers
Definition
True
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Where did the ordinary citizen's opportunity to hear music come from during the Baroque?
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Church
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How many movements does a Concerto or Concerto grosso have?
Definition
3
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What are the tempo markings of the movements of a concerto or concerto grossos?
Definition
Fast, slow, fast
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A polyphonic composition based on one main theme, a cornerstone of Baroque music
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Fugue
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The main theme of fugue
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Subject
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A play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes and action
Definition
Opera
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The text, or book, of a dramatic work
Definition
Librerto
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A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment which usually allows the soloist to "show of"
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Aria
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A vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech
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Recititive
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True or false: Since its beginnings in Italy around 1600, opera has spread to many countries and remains a powerful form of theatre today
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True
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The person who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians and controls the balance among instruments and voices
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Conductor
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An orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic production
Definition
Overture
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True or false: Antonio Vivaldi is closely identified with the musical life of Venice
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True
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True or false: Vivaldi wrote around 450 concertos or concerto grossos
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True
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Where was the longest period of Bach's professional life spent as Director of Music at St. Thoma's Church
Definition
Leipzig
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True or false: Bach was recognized as the most eminent composer during his life
Definition
False
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Bach created masterpieces in every Baroque form except which form?
Definition
Opera
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True or false: In bach's time, the Lutheran Church service was the social event of the week and lasted about four hours
Definition
True
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True or false: Music was not a significant part of the Lutheran service
Definition
False
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A small version of an oratorio, generally performed in churches
Definition
Cantata
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True or false: Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no acting, scenery or costumes
Definition
True
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Handel's "Messiah" is an example of what?
Definition
Oratorio
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Handel was born in 1685, the same as who?
Definition
Bach
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Handel spent the major portion of his life where?
Definition
England
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True or false: Handel's oratorios are usually based on the Old Testament
Definition
True
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