Test 2

Question 1

When was the Baroque period?

Answer 1

1600-1750

Question 2

What were the Baroque aesthetics?

Answer 2

random babies in the art, confusing, busy

Question 3

What makes the harpsichord different from the piano?

Answer 3

harpsichord plucks the strings and has no dynamics

Question 4

What is unique about the Baroque orchestra?

Answer 4

mostly stringed instruments, small, 15-20 people

Question 5

What is the purpose of the opera?

Answer 5

music to be like a speech

Question 6

What is the difference between an aria and a recitative?

Answer 6

aria: character sings how they feel, time stops
recitative: plot moves forward, conversations

Question 7

What is an overture?

Answer 7

the intro to an opera, instrumental

Question 8

What are some things to know about ‘Dido and Aeneas’?

Answer 8

they fall in love, he leaves, she throws herself off a balcony, written by Nahum Tate, composed by Henry Purcell

Question 9

What is the title of the person that writes the opera’s text?

Answer 9

librettist

Question 10

Who is a famous violin maker in the Baroque period?f

Answer 10

Antonio Stradivari

Question 11

What is a basso continuo part?

Answer 11

the bass accompaniment, played by 2 people, piano and gamba or harpsichord and gamba

Question 12

What does a trio sonata consist of?

Answer 12

4 people playing 3 parts, 2 on the basso continuo part

Question 13

What are some things to know about Antonio Vivaldi?

Answer 13

called the “red priest”, worked at a girls’ orphanage, wrote sonatas and concerti for the girls to perform, wrote Spring

Question 14

What is a concerto?

Answer 14

two groups going back and forth, orchestra vs. soloist

Question 15

What is a ritornello?

Answer 15

a refrain that comes back a lot, played by everyone

Question 16

What is something to know about Antonio Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’?

Answer 16

programmatic work, comes with a poem

Question 17

What is a programmatic work?

Answer 17

a piece with extra musical associations

Question 18

What is an absolute work?

Answer 18

a piece with no lyrics and no extra musical associations

Question 19

Who was in charge of Collegium Musicum?

Answer 19

J.S. Bach

Question 20

What was the Collegium Musicum?

Answer 20

a group of people who got together to play for leisure and would sometimes put on public concerts

Question 21

What is a fugue?

Answer 21

a melody played by itself followed by other voices repeating it, imitative polyphony

Question 22

Who was George Handel?

Answer 22

a German guy writing Italian operas in England

Question 23

What is an oratorio?

Answer 23

about religious topics, put on like a concert, not acted out, e.g. Messiah

Question 24

What genres have 3 movements?

Answer 24

concerti and sonatas

Question 25

What genres have 4 movements?

Answer 25

symphonies and string quartets

Question 26

What era had more woodwinds in the symphonies?

Answer 26

classical era

Question 27

What does the key structure look like in a Da Capo Aria?

Answer 27

tonic-not tonic-tonic

Question 28

When was the Classical Period?

Answer 28

1750-1800

Question 29

What were the aesthetics of the Classical period?

Answer 29

high art, more refined, a point to the art

Question 30

What was the patronage system?

Answer 30

an artist worked for a patron, lived in their manor or whatever and wrote music for them

Question 31

What was a freelance artist?

Answer 31

someone who went wherever they wanted and composed for different things

Question 32

What are the 3 components of sonata form?

Answer 32

exposition, development, recapitulation

Question 33

What is the form of the third movement in a four movement plan?

Answer 33

minuet and trio

Question 34

What is a symphony?

Answer 34

music composed for an orchestra, 4 movements

Question 35

What instruments, and how many of each, are in a string quartet?

Answer 35

2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello

Question 36

What is a sonata, the genre?

Answer 36

multiple works with piano accompaniment

Question 37

What did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart do for a living?

Answer 37

started off in the patronage system but got kicked out and became a freelancer in Vienna

Question 38

What is the famous opera that Mozart wrote?

Answer 38

Don Giovanni

Question 39

What type of opera was Don Giovanni?

Answer 39

dramma giocoso

Question 40

What is a dramma giocoso?

Answer 40

a mix between opera seria and opera buffa

Question 41

What is opera seria?

Answer 41

historical, tragic, usually dealing with Greek mythology

Question 42

What is opera buffa?

Answer 42

silly, funny, contemporary characters

Question 43

What was the Heiligenstadt Testament?

Answer 43

Beethoven’s letter to his brothers explaining the fact that he was going deaf

Question 44

What is the ‘Symphonia Eroica’?

Answer 44

symphony no. 3, written by Beethoven originally in honor of Napoleon, but changed the title to heroic symphony

Question 45

What is unique about Beethoven’s symphony no. 5?

Answer 45

uses motives instead of themes

Question 46

What is a set of compositions ordered by the date of publication called?

Answer 46

opus

Question 47

What is it called when the theme occurs in more than one movement to unify the piece?

Answer 47

cyclical

Question 48

What is scherzo?

Answer 48

means joking, faster, triple meter

Question 49

What are the tempi of the 4 movements in a 4 movement plan?

Answer 49

fast, slow, medium, fast

Question 50

What are the forms of the 4 movements in a 4 movement plan?

Answer 50

sonata, something, minuet and trio, sonata