The oratorio - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Ch. 10 BaroqueBaroque Period - correct answer ornamented, contrasts in tempo, dynamics, and tone color Concerto - correct answer a composition for orchestra and one or more solo instruments Sonata - correct answer Usually consists of 4 independent pieces called movements, with a specific order of characteristics Opera - correct answer Dramatic work set to music for singers and instrumentalists Cantata - correct answer Music for singers, solo instruments, and a small orchestra, often ...

Ch. 10 Baroque Study Guide Test 2024. Baroque Period - correct answer ornamented, contrasts in tempo, dynamics, and tone color Concerto - correct answer a composition for orchestra and one or more solo instruments Sonata - correct answer Usually consists of 4 independent pieces called movements, with a specific order of characteristics Opera - correct answer Dramatic work set to music for singers and instrumentalists Cantata - correct answer Music for singers, solo instruments, an...

BaroqueSelect the three countries whose cultures most influenced Bach's musical style. - correct answer Italy Germany France Select all that apply Select the three principal ways of varying the subject of a fugue. - correct answer Presenting the subject in diminution Presenting the subject in inversion Presenting the subject retrograde Select all that apply Select all the responsibilities of the music director of a church. - correct answer Training choristers for their performan...

Baroque Period Questions and Answers Already Passed Characteristics of Baroque bizarre, flamboyant, ornamented, extreme emotion Baroque AKA ____________ "Age of Absolutism" 2 major composers Handel and Back Other well known composers Monteverdi, Purcell, Corelli, Vivaldi Early baroque favored... homophonic texture over poly Late baroque ... polyphonic returned Characteristics of Baroque Usually expresses ONE MOOD, unless vocals are involved Affections moods (joy, grief, agitation) Baro...

UNIT 5 The Baroque Period Study Guide Test 2024. What are figured bass and basso continuo? How are they related? - correct answer The figured bass (also known as thoroughbass) is a musical notation using numbers to indicate chords, intervals, and other aspects in relation to the bass note of the music. The numbers were generally placed under the bass line to indicate the intervals that the bass note should use. The figured bass was closely related to what is known as the basso continuo (or shor...

Quiz 2 Baroque EraBaroque Dates - correct answer The three giants of Baroque composition were Bach and - correct answer Vivaldi and Handel Two main keyboards of the baroque were organ and - correct answer harpsichord Bass part of a baroque accompaniment with numerals above the notes indicating chords and some improvising is called - correct answer figured bass The organization of musical sections within a piece of music is called - correct answer movement Musical drama with scene...

Baroque EraBaroque - correct answer Began as a term of "disapproval" -Jewelers used this term to describe oddly colored or misshapen pearls -Today it is no longer a negative term Life in the Baroque Era - correct answer -Was a period of absolute monarchs -The political instability and wars that had dominated Europe for so many years gave way to a period of international peace and economic expansion -Many political repressions, punitive taxation. and gross social inequities, but there ...

Baroque Era (Genres)Genres in the Baroque Period - correct answer Fugue, Concerto, Sonata, Opera (Aria, Recitative, Chorus), Oratorio, Cantata, Suite, Ritornello Characteristics of Baroque Music - correct answer A. There were two practices: the prima practice and the second practice The prima practica approach was conventional and basically was polyphonic writing in the modal system. (Artists: Josquin, Victoria, Palestrina, Gesualdo, Weelkes, Le Jeune) The seconda practica approach bre...

Chapter 48 At which point in the Libera me does the choir sing : A. Dires irae text B. "die illa tremenda" ("that fearful day") C. "Requiem aeternam" ("grant them eternal rest") D. "lux perpetua" ("perpetual light") A. Dires irae text Chapter 48 A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called : A. a Requiem B. an oratorio C. the Mass Proper D. the Ordinary A. a Requiem Chapter 48 Faure's Requiem : A. was discovered in 1989 and only recently performed for the fir...

14. BAROQUE COMPOSERS EXAM QUESTIONS CORRECTLY ANSWERED 2024. is considered the master of counterpoint in Baroque music - correct answer Bach Choose the true statement. - correct answer Handel's Messiah is a sacred oratorio. A(n) _____ is an instrumental piece that typically introduces an opera. - correct answer overture