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Music 101 Hinckley Exam 2 BYUQuestions and Answers
Baroque Era - Answer-1600-1750
Johann Sebastian Bach (about) - Answer-Country: Germany
1685-1750
Spent most of his life working in the Lutheran church
Wrote famous secular keyboard music
Not famous as a composer during his lifetime
Went blind in the last 10 years of life
Johann Sebastian Bach (best known for) - Answer-Genre: Lutheran cantatas and
Masses; secular keyboard and orchestral music
Baroque Orchestra - Answer-Bigger than in the past, range from about 7 instruments to
80
Basso Continuo - Answer-Low instruments that all play the same notes. Keyboard or
guitar-like instrument improvises while playing the right notes
Cadenza - Answer-During the concerto the orchestra arrived at a cadence chord and
stopped playing while the soloist improvised an unaccompanied solo for as long as the
soloist deemed appropriate
Castrati - Answer-Soprano men who were castrated before puberty to prevent their
voices from dropping in pitch. Died out in Baroque Era
Concerto (Baroque Era) - Answer-An instrumental genre featuring one solo instrument
and an orchestra. Focus on the interplay between solo and orchestra
Concerto Grosso (Baroque Era) - Answer-A concert that had more than one soloist
De Capo Aria - Answer-A song in 3 sections- ABA. The second time through the singer
improvises. Da capo means "from the top" so you go back to start. Meant to show off
the singer's voice.
Figured Bass (Technique or Form) - Answer-A set of symbols written above or below
the bass line to help keyboardists realize the bass line
Genres that used figured bass - Answer-Any compositions that feature basso continuo
can also use _____
, French Overture - Answer-Begins a multi-movement composition like an opera or
ontario
Has two sections
1. Slow opening section with dotted rhythms
2. Faster section featuring imitative polyphony, often a fugue
Fugal device (retrograde) - Answer-Backwards
Fugal device (inversion) - Answer-Played upside down
Fugal device (retrograde inversion) - Answer-Upside down and backwards
Fugal device (diminution) - Answer-Making the note values shorter
Fugal device (augmentation) - Answer-Making the note values longer
Fugal device (fragmentation) - Answer-Chopping the musical material up and only using
pieces of it
Fugue (form) - Answer-Highly structured and featured almost non-stop imitative
polyphony
Genres that use fugue form - Answer-Any genre. Usually paired with other pieces of
music or as a section within a piece of music.
Fugue Exposition - Answer-First section of a fugue
Began with the main melody being sounded by a single "voice" (most were
instrumental)
Fugue Subject - Answer-The main melody stated by "voice one"
Represented in the diagram by a jagged line
Fugue Voices - Answer-Composers could use as many as they wanted. Most had three
or four . Each would state the subject
Fugue Bridge - Answer-Extra musical material to stretch the piece out. It could NOT be
placed between voice one and two
Fugue Episode - Answer-After the last voice finishes the subject and the exposition is
over, this part begins. The composer reworked the material that had already been
presented
Ground Bass - Answer-A bass line where the succession of pitches (the melody of the
bass line) repeat over and over again. Can be throughout a piece or just used for
sections in a piece
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