MUSI302 Midterm

Question 1

How did musicians make a living in the late baroque?

Answer 1

writing music for political or religious institution

Question 2

How did Northern German, London, and Italian styles vary or overlap?

Question 3

What is an oratorio?

Answer 3

musical work for orchestra and voice

Question 4

What is a cantata?

Answer 4

a piece for voice with instrumental accompaniment

Question 5

Bach and Handel genres?

Answer 5

oratorios

Question 6

enlightenment?

Answer 6

a period of rebirth of renaissance which focus on the interest and values of people

Question 7

galant style?

Answer 7

songlike melodies, short phrases, frequent cadences, light accompaniment

Question 8

classical style?

Answer 8

emphasizes on melody over light accompaniment,

Question 8

learned style?

Answer 8

special formation of texture in 18th C music

Question 9

empfindsamer style?

Answer 9

cloes to galant style, surprising turns of harmony, chromaticism, nervous rhythms, speechlike melodies

Question 10

fantasia?

Answer 10

composisition with roots in improvisation

Question 11

harmonic rhythm?

Answer 11

determines how many beats a chord will last before you change to the next chord

Question 12

periodicity, period?

Answer 12

repetition of music structure

Question 13

alberti bass

Answer 13

broken chord pattern

Question 14

public concerts

Answer 14

performance outside political or religious institutions

Question 15

opera buffa

Answer 15

comedy and humorous opera

Question 16

aria

Answer 16

piece for voice with or without accompaniment

Question 17

recitative

Answer 17

accompanied solo piece

Question 18

intermezzo

Answer 18

performed between the acts of a play, light instrumental composition

Question 19

patter, buffa bass

Answer 19

a person who sings opera roles

Question 20

opera seria

Answer 20

serious style of opera music

Question 21

da capo aria

Answer 21

form of aria that was famous in baroque era

Question 22

opera comique

Answer 22

opera containing spoken dialogue and arias

Question 23

ballad opera

Answer 23

english type of mic opera

Question 24

singspiel

Answer 24

german light opera

Question 25

querelle des bouffons

Answer 25

battle of musical philisophies, paris, 1752-1754

Question 26

reform opera

Answer 26

orchestra added emotions to the plot

Question 27

clavichord, harpsichord, clavier

Answer 27

stringed rectangular keyboard instrument, largely used in the Late Middle Ages

Question 28

fortepiano

Answer 28

sudden dyanmic change

Question 29

piano, pianoforte

Answer 29

soft-loud

Question 30

string quartet

Answer 30

two violin, one viola, one cello

Question 31

symphony

Answer 31

agreement or concord of sound, large composition for orchestra

Question 32

sinfonia

Answer 32

orchestral prelude to a vocal work

Question 33

mannheim rocket

Answer 33

technique perfected by Mannheim Orchestra, scale or arpeggio speeded up and louder

Question 34

concerto

Answer 34

composition for instruments, solo vs orchestra

Question 35

ritornello form

Answer 35

recurring musical section

Question 36

binary form

Answer 36

ABAB, two-part musical form, V - I

Question 37

rounded binary form

Answer 37

ABA, I - V - I (shortened)

Question 38

sonata form

Answer 38

ABC, exposition, developement, and recapitulation

Question 39

coda

Answer 39

concluding section of music

Question 40

minute & trio

Answer 40

ABA form, A = minute; B = Trio)

Question 41

theme and variation

Answer 41

melody repeated, some changes each repeat