MUSI 1307 - Test #2 Flashcards
Amateur music-making contributed to the development of genres and styles in regional languages
that were easy to sing, pleasing, and had direct music-text relationships.
T/F
ANS: T
The development of inexpensive methods to print music contributed to the rise in music
literacy in the sixteenth century.
T/F
ANS: T
The madrigal was the dominant secular vocal genre of the sixteenth century.
T/F
ANS: T
The earliest composers of Italian madrigals were native Italians.
T/F
ANS: F
What is a madrigalism (or example of word painting)? Give a few examples.
[Answers will vary.] A madrigalism is a musical gesture that evokes the text literally—for example, using long rhythmic values on the word slow, an ascending melody on the word climb, or a descending melody on the word down.
Why are madrigals through-composed?
ANS: An essential characteristic of the madrigal is matching the music to the meanings of individual words, phrases, and moods. This demands a line-by-line approach to the text. Strophic forms or forms with refrains, in which multiple stanzas are set to identical music, would be incompatible with this aspect of the madrigal.
Which fifteenth-century invention was essential to the growth of amateur music-making and
the rise of music literacy in the sixteenth century?
a. the lute d. the telescope
b. parchment e. the windmill
c. the printing press
c. the printing press
The word used to describe a poem about the idealized world of shepherds and rustic figures in beautiful landscapes i
a. classical. d. pastoral.
b. humanistic. e. sacred.
c. mythological.
d. pastoral.
Which group intently studied the writings of the ancient Greeks about music?
a. Shakespeare’s acting troupe d. the Camerata
b. Henry IV’s court e. the Capella at St. Mark’s
c. the Puritans
d. the Camerata
The term baroque was first applied to art and music by
a. critics in the early 1600s who preferred the new style.
b. critics in the mid-1700s who disliked the style.
c. composers in the 1600s who created new genres and styles.
d. patrons who supported seventeenth-century composers.
e. musicians and actors who performed avant-garde works.
b. critics in the mid-1700s who disliked the style.
The practice of basso continuo reflects what trend that occurred around 1600?
a. a preference for polyphony
b. composers’ interest in theatricality and dramatic expression
c. increased word painting
d. increased dissonance and chromaticism
e. increased emphasis on the melody and bass lines
e. increased emphasis on the melody and bass lines
In music, the Baroque period lasted from approximately
a. 1550–1650. d. 1650–1750.
b. 1600–1700. e. 1650–1775.
c. 1600–1750.
c. 1600–1750.
Ground refers to what type of bass movement?
a. movement by leap d. movement by step
b. an ascending tetrachord e. circle-of-fifths by root movement
c. a repeating pattern
c. a repeating pattern
What important step for opera occurred in 1637?
a. Galilei published his Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music.
b. Caccini published Le nuove musiche.
c. L’Euridice premiered.
d. L’Orfeo premiered.
e. The first public opera house opened.
e. The first public opera house opened.
Opera originated
a. ca. 1450. d. ca. 1637 .
b. ca. 1550. e. ca. 1650.
c. ca. 1600.
c. ca. 1600.
The two statues below reflect the shift in artistic values from the ________ era to the ________. How does the one on the right reflect emerging values?
ANS: Renaissance/Baroque; It depicts motion and change; it suggests dramatic action and evokes an emotional response.
