Music History Final Exam Listening Examples

Question 1

Cruda Amarillis

Answer 1

Monteverdi, late 1590s

seconda practica, late madrigal, Artusi/Monteverdi controversy

Question 2

L’Orfeo Tu se Morta

Answer 2

Monteverdi, 1607

Recitative, early opera, monody, basso continuo

Question 3

In ecclesiis

Answer 3

Giovanni Gabrieli, 1610

polychoral vocal style, corri spezzati, concertato style

Question 4

Saul, was verfolgst du mich

Answer 4

Heinrich Schütz, 1650

Question 5

Armide, Overture

Answer 5

Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1686

Tragédie en musique, French Overture, Récitatif ordinaire

Question 6

Suite No. 3 in A Minor, keyboard suite from Pièces de clavecin

Answer 6

Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, 1687

Question 7

Dido and Aeneas, Lament, When I am laid in earth

Answer 7

Henry Purcell, 1689

Question 8

Trio Sonata, Op. 3, No. 2, Grave

Answer 8

Arcangelo Corelli, 1680s

Question 9

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 3, No. 6

Answer 9

Antonio Vivaldi, 1710

Question 10

Chorale Prelude on Durch Adams Fall

Answer 10

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1716

Question 11

Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, No. 1, Chorus

Answer 11

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1724

Question 12

Giulio Cesare, opera: Act II, scenes 1–2, V’adoro pupille

Answer 12

George Frideric Handel, 1724