Test 2

Question 1

Baroque Period

Answer 1

17th and first half of 18th century

Question 2

Baroque aesthetics

Answer 2

complex, detailed, and dramatic

Question 3

Harpsichord

Answer 3

plucks strings, sometimes plays basso continuo part

Question 4

baroque orchestra

Answer 4

smaller, 15-20 people often strings

Question 5

Opera

Answer 5

Begins with overture, interlude, choir, aria/recitative

Question 6

Overture

Answer 6

starts the opera, no music

Question 7

Dido and Aenas

Answer 7

Dido’s lament sung by Dido

Question 8

Aria

Answer 8

times stands still and the character says how they feel, metric and melodic, orchestra accompanies

Question 9

Recitative

Answer 9

conversational, plot moves forward, talk singing, can’t really tap your foot to it, stops and starts

Question 10

Libretto/librettist

Answer 10

Text of an opera, librettist is someone who writes the text of an opera

Question 11

Antonio Stradivari

Answer 11

famous violin maker, tweaked violin and made it what it is today

Question 12

Basso Continuo

Answer 12

Usually two people, bass driven chordal support, accompanying instrument was often a lute (or harpsichord)

Question 13

Trio Sonata

Answer 13

ensemble, genre, 3 parts. 2 soloists then basso continuo part which is 2 people. Four people in it

Question 14

Antonio Vivaldi

Answer 14

composer and violinist, worked at girls orphanage (Ospedalle della Pieta) spring, concerto

Question 15

Concerto

Answer 15

orchestra vs. soloist. One or more soloists play with or against an orchestra

Question 16

concerto grosso

Answer 16

orchestra vs. group of soloists

Question 17

Ritornello

Answer 17

theme that comes back regularly and is played by whole group

Question 18

Programmatic

Answer 18

story, extra musical associations, means music has unspoken story, spring by vivaldi very programmatic

Question 19

absolute

Answer 19

no extra musical associations

Question 20

J.S. Bach

Answer 20

first worked for court of weimar, had main job at city of leipzig
educate young children in music, established collegium musicum which is public concerts that are ticketed

Question 21

Fugue

Answer 21

genre that has imitative polyphony, chamber, orchestra could be played on anything. Has a subject and an answer that means other voices are repeating melody. The exposition contains subject AND answer. If it has augmentation, retrograde, inversion, diminution it is a fugue

Question 22

George Handel

Answer 22

Born in Germany, studied in Italy, opera in particular then began to compose other things,stature only grew larger on the international stage. During his lifetime he became the most famous composer in Europe and a treasured national institution in England

Question 23

Oratorio

Answer 23

No costumes, no sets, no acting. Same form and pieces as an opera but set as a concert and about sacred topics

Question 24

Da capo aria

Answer 24

ABA

Question 25

Classical Period

Answer 25

late eighteenth century, 1750-1800, “high art”, philospher thought of it as dionysian and apollonian

Question 26

patronage system vs. freelance

Answer 26

kings who wanted a “soundtrack” you worked FOR rich people as a job
freelance system= making music for the public serving multiple people rather than just one

Question 27

Sonata Form

Answer 27

piece with solo and piano accompoenment but can have movements.
Exposition, Development, Recapitulation
Home keys, not home keys, chaotic keys, home keys

Question 28

4 and 3 movement plan

Answer 28

four- symphony, string quartet

three- sonata, concerto

Question 29

minuet and trio

Answer 29

contrasting character, dance like triple meter,

medial caesura?

Question 30

symphony

Answer 30

four movements
1-sonata
2-whatever (theme and variations)
3- minuet and trio
4- sonata

Question 31

string quartet

Answer 31

attaca quartet. Two violins, viola, cello, “emporer quartet” a melody that Haydn composed in response to the military and political events of his day

Question 32

sonata

Answer 32

something-sonata form- trio and minuet-sonato

Question 33

Wolfgang Amaeus Mozart

Answer 33

Trained his family, musical children prodigies, mozart family tour, performed for kings and queens works first or arch bishop

Question 34

Don Giovanni

Answer 34

called drama giocoso, lements of both categories of opera

Question 35

Opera buffa/opera seria

Answer 35

buffa- 2 acts, silly funny, contemporary characters

opera seria- serious, deep, 3 acts, tragic greek mythology

Question 36

dramma giocosso

Answer 36

don giovanni, has elements of both buffa and seria

Question 37

ludwig van beethoven

Answer 37

lifetime extends, bridging the gap in between styles, unhappy childhood, wrote symphony no.3 orginally supposed to be napolean symphony

Question 38

Heiligenstadt Testament

Answer 38

Beethoven’s letter to his brother when he was going deaf

Question 39

Symphony No. 5

Answer 39

fast-slow-fast

tonic-not tonic-tonic-tonic

Question 40

opus

Answer 40

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