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Music Appreciation Baroque Period UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Affections - CORRECT ANSWER- Emotional states like joy, grief, and agitation represented in baroque music although specific musical languages Terraced Dynamics - CORRECT ANSWER- Abrupt alternation between lou...

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Music Appreciation Baroque Period
UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Affections - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Emotional states like joy, grief, and agitation
represented in baroque music although specific musical languages


Terraced Dynamics - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Abrupt alternation between loud and soft
dynamic levels; characteristic of baroque music


Clavichord - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Baroque keyboard instrument in which sound is
produced by means of brass blades striking strings, capable of making gradual dynamic
changes, but within a narrow volume range


Basso Continuo - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Baroque accompaniment made up of a bass part
usually played by two instruments: a keyboard plus a low melodic instrument


Figured Bass - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Bass part of a baroque accompaniment with
figures (numbers) above it indicting the chords to be played


Movement - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Piece that sounds fairly complete and independent
but is part of a larger composition


Concerto Grosso - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Composition for several instrumental soloists
and small orchestra; common in late baroque music.


Tutti - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔In Italian, all; the full orchestra, or a large group of
musicians contrasted with a smaller group


Ritornello - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Refrain; a repeated section of music usually played
by the full orchestra, or tutti

, Ritornello form - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Compositional form usually employed in the
baroque concerto grosso, in which the tutti plays a ritornello, or refrain, alternating with one
or more soloist playing new material


Fugue - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Polyphonic composition based on one main theme, or
subject


Subject - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Theme of a fugue



Prelude - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Short piece usually serving to introduce a fugue or
another composition; a short piece for piano


Countersubject - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔In a fugue, a melodic idea that accompanies the
subject fairly constantly


Pedal Point - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Single tone, usually in the bass, which is held while
the other voices produce a series of changing harmonies against it; often found in fugues.


Inversion - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Variation of a fugue subject in which each interval of
the subject is reversed in direction


Retrograde - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Variation of a fugue subject in which the subject is
presented by beginning with its last note and proceeding backward to the first.


Stretto - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Compositional procedure used in fugues, in which a
subject is imitated before it is completed; one voice tries to catch the other.


Librettist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Dramatist who writes the libretto, or text, of an oprea



Libretto - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Text of an opera.



Opera - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Drama that us sung to orchestral accompaniment, usually
a large-scale composition employing vocal soloists, chorus, orchestra, costumes, and scenery.

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