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Baroque style flourished in music during the period
1600 - 1750
1000 - 1250
1250 - 1450
1450 - 1600
By about ____, major or minor scales were the tonal basis of most compositions
1680
1500
1600
1750
Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ____ period
Renaissance
early baroque
middle baroque
late baroque
Affections in baroque usage refers to
the nobility's manner of deportment
the doctrine of universal brotherhood
terraced dynamics
emotional states or moods of music
The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by
a dramatic text
complex harmonic progressions
repeated rhythmic patterns
the high dynamic level
Baroque melodies often are
elaborate and ornamental
being carelessly composed
tonal vagueness
dynamic expansion
Baroque melodies give the impression of
balance and symmetry
being carelessly composed
tonal vagueness
dynamic expansion
In the baroque era, dynamics consisted mainly of sudden alterations between loud and soft called
cantus firmus
terraced dynamics
basso continuo
basso ostinato
A large court during the baroque period might employ about ______ performers
18
24
80
120
The position of the composer during the baroque period was that of
a free agent working on commissions
an equal to the nobility, based on merit
a high-class servant with few personal rights
a low-class wandering minstrel
In the baroque period, the ordinary citizen's opportunities for hearing music usually came from the
corner tavern
church
concert hall
court
A section that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition is called a
movement
phrase
song
sentence
The orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the _____ family
violin
woodwind
brass
percussion
Transitional sections of a fugue that offer either new material or fragments of the subject or countersubject are called
answers
episodes
preludes
strettos
________ is a musical procedure in which a fugue subject is imitated before it is completed.
augmentation
diminution
retrograde
stretto
A _______ is a single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while the other voices produce a series of changing harmonies against it.
pedal point
pitch
basso continuo
basso ostinato
Turning the subject of a fugue upside down, or reversing the direction of each interval, is called
inversion
stretto
retrograde
countersubject
Presenting the subject of a fugue going from right to left, or beginning with the last and proceeding backward to the first note, is called
inversion
stretto
augmentation
retrograde
Presenting the subject of a fugue in lengthened time values is called
inversion
augmentation
retrograde
diminution
presenting the subject of a fugue in shortened time values is called
inversion
augmentation
retrogade
diminution
Very often an independent fugue is introduced by a short piece called a(n)
overture
prelude
concerto
pedal point
A concerto grosso most often has ______ movement(s)
one
two
three
four
The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the
concertino
orchestra
soloists
tutti
The concerto grosso most often has three movements whose tempo marking are
fast, slow, fast
fast, fast, slow
slow, fast, slow
slow, slow, fast
The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in _____ form
theme and variations
sonata
ritornello
ternary
A musical ornament consisting of the rapid alternation of two tones that are a whole or half step apart is a
trill
shake
blurb
wobble
A polyphonic composition based on one main theme, a cornerstone of baroque music, is the
subject
concerto
episode
fugue
The main theme of a fugue is called the
answer
countersubject
episode
stretto
In many fugues, the subject in one voice is constantly accompanied in another voice by a different melodic idea called a(n)
answer
countersubject
episode
stretto
The word baroque has at various times meant all of the following except
elaborately ornamented
flamboyant
bizarre
naturalistic
The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and
Johann Christian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Giovanni Gabrieli
Galileo Galilei
Monteverdi, an early baroque composer, strove to create music that was
difficult to perform
passionate and dramatic
extremely complex
placid and smooth
The early and late baroque periods differed in the composers in the early baroque
favored polyphonic texture
favored homophonic texture
used extremely complex harmonies
favored purely instrumental music
Melodic sequence refers to
a composition by Vivaldi
a preferred method of tuning an instrument
the successive repetition of a musical idea at higher or lower pitch levels
the pedagogical steps in learning to play an instrument
A characteristic often found in baroque melodies is
one long continuous phrase with long sustained notes
one short phrase followed by continuous repetition of the same phrase
a symmetrical frame with two long phrases of equal length
a short opening phrase followed by a longer phrase with an unbroken flow of rapid notes
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