Test 2 Flashcards
- The oratorios composed by Handel between 1739 and 1749 would fill about 40 CDs
A.True
- Sacred music remained almost exclusively vocal music through the end of the 16th century
A.True
- Productive contemporary artists typically put out an album
C. Every year or two
- Cantatas were not always intended for church use, there were also
D. Secular cantatas
- Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of JS Bach considered his father:
C. Old fashioned
- Handel’s oratorio Messiah used _________ instead of _______
A. English, Italian
- Among the most significant of the annual performances of Messiah were those to support the
D. Foundling Hospital
- Two significant changes in the relationship between sacred and secular music were
E. Both answers
- In 1842 a group of Irish peasants formed an opera company the Guild of Royal Talent and engaged Handel as a music director
B.False
- Handel was the most cosmopolitan composer of the early 18th century
A.True
- Castration prior to puberty conserved the castratos singers voice into the female range
A. True
- What is the dictionary definition of a primma donna?
E. Both answers
- About a century after the Camerata first formulated the idea of opera
C. The Arcadian academy decided to reform opera
- Handel composed
D. more than 40 operas
15.Giulio Cesare in Egitto was based on the love affair of
C. Caesar and Cleopatra
- John Gay was
B. an English poet and dramatist, not a composer
- Two of the characters in the beggars opera were
C. Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit
- Like so many innovation in popular music, the beggars opera grew out of
D. new ways of combining old materials and ideas
- When Corelli composed his violin sonatas at the end of the 17th century, the violin was a very primitive instrument and was difficult to keep in tune
B. False
- The sound produced by the plucking on the harpsichord has a dull attack followed by a ringing tone that lingers
B. False
- Bach had 20 children yet produced an astounding amount of music in his lifetime
A. True
- The unique texture and sound of the continuo are defining features of Baroque music
A. True
- Stringed instruments are
A. basically the same now as they were 300 or more years ago
- A plectrum is
C. a plucking device made of quill to pluck one or more strings
- Continuo can refer to the combination of
A. a bass instrument such as the cello and a chord producing instrument such as the harpsichord
- Following the Baroque era, the consistent steady movement of the bass
C. disappeared until the swing era of the 1930s
- The sonata typically had four movements
C. slow fast slow fast
- Lully died from an infection….
A. True
- The Baroque concerto
B. the most popular orchestral genre of the early 18th century
- The Baroque era was a time of
C. energy, virtuosity, motion, and ornamentation
- The solo concerto
C. features a single solo instrument such as a violin or flute
- Late Baroque concertos
A. typically have 3 movements
- Vivaldi’s music was
C. a significant influence on JS Bach
- The Brandenburg concertos
B. very diverse in instrumentation
- Bach seemed to compose from
C. an overpowering inner need
- Instrument choice is not important in a concerto as demonstrated in a commercial where Jimi Hendrix finds success as an accordion player
B. False
- Heavy metal guitarist Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple acknowledged borrowing from Bach for his classic solo Highway Star
A. True
- Learning to play the piano became a customary part of the education of young people with any signs of musical ability
A. True
- George Frederic Handel was an entrepreneur as well as a composer
A. True
- The music of the great Baroque composers was the product of the following two major developments
C. the growth of music as a business and the almost universal adoption of common practice harmony by European composers
- The new keyboard, the pianoforte, got its name because
A. performers could play both soft and loud by changing their touch
- The following composers all settled in Vienna
B. Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
- Beethoven left his birthplace of Bonn to seek fame and fortune to study with
D. Haydn
- The term Baroque originally referred to
E. an irregularly shaped pearl or convoluted thought process
- We refer to music of the latter part of the 18th century as
B. classical music
- By using the term “baroque” historians were calling attention to
A. the extravagant and even bizarre qualities of the music
- The new use of homophony began around 1600 and made possible
D. the emergence of opera
- Baroque musicians tried to move their audience by
A. the artful imitation of emotion
- Composers quickly abandoned the aria style used in “possente spirto” in favor of more tuneful melodies with an underlying pulse
A. True
- Dido and Aeneas was Henry Purcell’s only opera
A. True
- The ultimate destiny of Aeneas was to find the city of Rome
A. True
- Librettos are
A. the texts to be sung in operas
- Operatic plots typically reveal themselves over
B. 3 acts
- English audiences accepted opera
B. slowly because there was relatively little demand for opera in England
- The musical revolution in northern Italy 400 years ago produced opera compared in the text to
A. the one that produced rock in 1950s and 1960s
- Frank Sinatra
C. called Rock and Roll “ the most brutal…..”
- Musical innovators from the past include
C. Franz Joseph Haydn, Claude Debussy, Louis Armstrong, The Beatles
- Two musicians who were able to combine the prevailing style of the music of the next generation were
B. Beethoven and Moteverdi
- Monterverdi was a skilled vocalist and violinist and he grew up in Cremona which was
A. The center of fine violin making
- Claudio Monteverdi was
D. the first important composer of opera and a key figure in the transition…and Baroque music
- By the time he composed Orfeo in 1607, Monteverdi was already
D. a highly esteemed composer
- Monteverdi provided two versions of the melody “Possente Spirito”
A. one is an absolutely bare boned version and the other lavishly ornamented
- Monteverdi’s way of combinging voice and instruments points to the future not only to his later operas but also
C. all of opera as a genre
- Thomas Morley and Thomas Weelkes were known as the composing Thomas duo
B. False
- Josquin could assume that everyone who heard on of his masses would have the text firmly in mind
A. True
- The Catholic hierarchy tried to ban polyphonic music during the Counter-Reformation
A. True
- Thomas Morley was a one man music industry
A. True
- In 2006 British rocker ______________ recorded a collection of songs for lute and voice by Elizabthan composer _______.
B. Sting and John Dowland
- The term a cappella refers to
D. singing without instrumental accompaniment
- Oriana referred to
B. Queen Elizabeth the first
- Elizabeth I
B. was herself a skillful musician
- Thomas Morley and Thomas Weelkes
D. composed madrigals as well as music
- An obbligato is
C. a second melody playing under the main melody
- “O mistresse Mine” was almost certainly
B. a popular song known only in oral tradition before Morleys arrangement of it
- Consort is a term used in England during the 16th and 17th centuries to identify
D. a small group of diverse instruments
- Singing in vernacular made worship services less appealing to the common man
B. False
- In the wake of Luthers Reformation Nearly all Protestant denominations adopted congregational singing
A. True
- John Wesley encouraged the enthusiastic and heartfelt singing of hymns
A. True
- Martin Luther was the father of
E. Both…
- Meistersingers were
C. German lyric poets of the 14th – 16th centuries
- ______________ which served as a commentary on scripture…..
C. Hymns
- Martin Luther’s original setting of “Fin feste Burg” includes distinct features of a hymn which are all of the following except
E. syncopated rhythms and off beat entrances
- Luther’s frequent collaborator and the other key figure in the rise of Lutheran Hymns was:
B. Johann Walter
- There was a business aspect to choral production which involved all of the following except the:
C. Recording of demos
- What did Martin Luther say about the music of Josquin
C. It was as free as the song of the finch
- The Jesuit missionaries thought the music of the Huron Indians sounded frightful, as if demons were singing in hell
A. True
- The plains Indians were all nomadic
B. False
- The early missionaries compared the singing of the Abenakis to:
D. The cries and the howlings of wolves
- For the Plains Indians, the War Dance was:
E. Intended to ensure success in battle
- The colonies under French, Portuguese, and Spanish rule allowed slaves to retain African customs and practices
A. True
- Music is not important to Santeria rituals
B. False
- Yoruba religious practices by African slaves, mainly from what is now Nigeria, were adopted as:
B. Santeria
- One researcher tracked down 98 versions of “Barbara Allen” in Virginia alone
A. True
- The movie Songcatcher (2000) documents the story of…
A. True
- The folk song “Barbara Allen” must have come to US with the:
B. Earliest English and Scottish Immmigrant
- About 2/3 of the dances in Playford’s anthology are in compound duple meter
A. True
- Rufus Guinchard was only 15 when he recorded the version of “Boston Laddie” in this text
B. False
- National anthems emerged during a century of tumultuous change in Europe and North America
A. True
- The adoption of hymn like anthems in England was a ____, unlike the commissioned anthems in Austria
A. Happy Accident
- Franz Joseph Haydn was:
C. The most celebrated composer in Europe
