Music Appreciation Baroque Period Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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Music appreciation
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Music Appreciation
Music Appreciation Baroque Period Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Affections - answerEmotional states like joy, grief, and agitation represented in baroque music
although specific musical languages
Terraced Dynamics - answerAbrupt alternation between loud and soft dynamic levels;
character...
Concerto Grosso - answer✔Composition for several instrumental soloists and small orchestra;
common in late baroque music.
Tutti - answer✔In Italian, all; the full orchestra, or a large group of musicians contrasted with a
smaller group
Ritornello - answer✔Refrain; a repeated section of music usually played by the full orchestra, or
tutti
Ritornello form - 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 - answer✔Polyphonic composition based on one main theme, or subject
Subject - answer✔Theme of a fugue
Prelude - answer✔Short piece usually serving to introduce a fugue or another composition; a
short piece for piano
Countersubject - answer✔In a fugue, a melodic idea that accompanies the subject fairly
constantly
Pedal Point - 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.
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