Test 2

Question 1

Drama that is sung

Answer 1

Opera

Question 2

New style that features solo voice

Answer 2

Monody

Question 3

Baroque time period

Answer 3

1600-1750

Question 4

Florentine Camerata

Answer 4

Group of Italian artists, musicians and philosophers that first developed Opera

Question 5

Basso Continuo

Answer 5

Accompaniment for a recitative. 2 instruments, one melodic one chordal

Question 6

Figured Bass

Answer 6

Shorthand, harmonic notation for basso continuo

Question 7

Castrati

Answer 7

Young singers castrated to conserve their high voices

Question 8

Recitative

Answer 8

Sparse accompaniment, not much rhythm involved, ‘speech like text’ often dialogue

Question 9

Aria

Answer 9

Full orchestra accompaniment, more of a rhythmic pulse with a defined meter

Question 10

Secco Recitative

Answer 10

Sparse accompaniment, just basso continuo, and fast speech like delivery of text

Question 11

Recitative Accompagnato

Answer 11

Recitative with whole orchestra accompanying

Question 12

Liberato

Answer 12

text of an opera

Question 13

de capo aria

Answer 13

Aria in ABA form with vocal embellishments in return of A section

Question 14

overture

Answer 14

orchestral introduction to opera

Question 15

Choruses

Answer 15

unnamed characters representing ‘the people’ used often in climatic finishes

Question 16

Opera seria

Answer 16

Italian style of Opera with a serious/tragic plot ex:Handel’s Julius Caesar

Question 17

Oratorio

Answer 17

Large scale dramatic genre with sacred text performed by solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. not staged or costumed

Question 18

Relentless driving rhythm, continuously expanding melody , major/minor tonality

Answer 18

Basic traits of Baroque style

Question 19

Suite

Answer 19

Collection of dances written for instruments

Question 20

traits of a suite

Answer 20

Each movement in the same key, movements often binary (AB) or tertiary (ABA), each movement modulates to a new key at the end of each section, and can be for many instruments or solo

Question 21

prelude

Answer 21

Usually precedes a suite

Question 22

Genre that features either solo or small group of instruments, set against a large ensemble such as orchestra. usually 3 movements fast-slow-fast and 2nd movement in a contrasting key

Answer 22

Concerto

Question 23

Solo Concerto

Answer 23

Soloist with large ensemble

Question 24

Concerto Grosso

Answer 24

Small group of instruments with large ensemble

Question 25

Ritornello Form

Answer 25

refrain based, ‘it returns’

Question 26

Program Music

Answer 26

Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations

Question 27

Sontana

Answer 27

instrumental genre in several movements for solo or small ensemble

Question 28

trio Sontana

Answer 28

3 separate parts for 4 players (violinists and basso continuo)

Question 29

solo sontana

Answer 29

for solo instrument such as violin or harpsicord

Question 30

Well-Tempered Clavier

Answer 30

written to celebrate invention of equal temperament, invention of a new tuning system that made it possible to play in every key

Question 31

Equal temperamet

Answer 31

new tuning system that made it possible to play in every key

Question 32

Fugue

Answer 32

polyphonic form in which one or more themes are developed by imitative counterpoint

Question 33

The art of combining two or more melodic lines

Answer 33

Counterpoint

Question 34

Subject

Answer 34

first statement of a theme

Question 35

Answer

Answer 35

subsequent statements of a theme in higher or lower pitches

Question 36

Countersubject

Answer 36

Accompaniment line heard during the answer

Question 37

Exposition

Answer 37

First section of fugue where each voice presents the theme

Question 38

Episodes

Answer 38

moments where the theme is not heard

Question 39

inversion

Answer 39

theme written upsidedown

Question 40

retrograde

Answer 40

theme written backwards

Question 41

retrograde inversion

Answer 41

theme written backwards and upside down

Question 42

Augmentation

Answer 42

Theme written in longer rhythmic values (sounds slower)

Question 43

Diminution

Answer 43

Theme written in shorter rhythmic values (sounds slower)

Question 44

Cantata

Answer 44

simular to oratorio, voices (solo and chorus) and orchestra, has recitative and aria, has narrative storyline. some are sacred, not secular