Music History Study Guide Questions and Answers Rated A+
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Music History Study Guide Questions
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What term is used for the stylistic feature in Baroque music where the melody has rapid,
ornamented passages to enhance emotional expression?
Coloratura.
Which Renaissance composer is known for his use of "imitation" in choral mus...
Music History Study Guide Questions
and Answers Rated A+
What term is used for the stylistic feature in Baroque music where the melody has rapid,
ornamented passages to enhance emotional expression?
✔✔ Coloratura.
Which Renaissance composer is known for his use of "imitation" in choral music, where
different voices repeat the same melodic material?
✔✔ Palestrina.
What musical period is marked by the rise of the piano, operatic innovation, and the
development of symphonic form?
✔✔ Classical period.
Which Baroque dance form, often used in a suite, is known for its stately rhythm and elegant
structure?
✔✔ Sarabande.
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, What is the term for the use of a single, recurring theme or subject throughout a composition,
used especially in fugue writing?
✔✔ Subject.
Which Classical composer, besides Beethoven, is known for writing music that is both
emotionally intense and formally structured, especially in symphonies and piano concertos?
✔✔ Franz Schubert.
In Medieval music, which style was used to expand the harmonic texture by adding a second
voice to a chant, creating a form of early polyphony?
✔✔ Organum.
What is the practice of adding musical commentary or improvisation around a written theme,
popular during the Baroque era, called?
✔✔ Continuo.
Which 20th-century composer is associated with the development of minimalist music,
characterized by repetitive patterns and gradual transformation?
✔✔ Steve Reich.
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