Baroque & Classical Era Flashcards
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An intimate vocal composition featuring a solo singer accompanied by a “basso continuo,” staged without scenery or costumes.
Cantata
A style of singing intended to approximate the natural inflections of speech.
Recitative
A staged dramatic entertainment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially popular in England?
Masque
Henry Purcell’s “When I Am Laid in Earth” comes from one of the first English operas to use music throughout to unify a dramatic whole. What was the name of this opera?
Dido and Aeneas
A Baroque instrumental composition in several dance-like movements, intended for performance in a chamber.
Sonata da camera
Allemande
German dance in duple meter
Although he was an ordained priest, Vivaldi served principally as music director of an orphanage/convent for girls in which city?
Venice
What term describes the initial theme of a fugue?
The Subject
A pitch, usually in the bass, that is sustained while other parts move more rapidly above it.
Pedal Point
Which of the following genres did Bach compose?: Cantata, Opera, Fugue, Concerto, Sonata
Cantata, Fugue, Concerto, Sonata.
NOT Opera.
A church cantata in which one or more movements use a chorale melody
Chorale Cantata
Which term describes Italian comic opera?
Opera Buffa
Did Classical composers prefer major or minor keys?
Major
Bartolomeo Cristofori invented this instrument around 1720, giving performers access to a wider range of dynamics than previous instruments of the same type.
Fortepiano
Which of the following forms features a main theme set in the tonic, known as the refrain, that alternates with contrasting sections, known as episodes, that introduce new keys and themes?
Rondo
Composer who perfected the String Quartet
Haydn
What aristocratic family employed Haydn for several years?
Esterházy
A German opera that featured tuneful solo numbers and spoken dialogue instead of recitative?
Singspiel
Which of Mozart’s pieces is considered especially rich in Masonic symbolism?
The Magic Flute
In honor of what famous historical figure did Beethoven originally compose his Symphony No. 3, commonly known as the Eroica or Heroic Symphony?
Napoleon Bonaparte
The four-note motive in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 occurs in how many movements?
All of them—Four
