Test - Baroque (with Answers) Flashcards
1.
Name the composer for the following statement.
This composer was a great master of the contrapuntal arts.
JS Bach
2.
Name the composer for the following statement.
This composer’s works have a sense of pageantry and dramatic theatrical style through grandiose gestures.
Handel
3.
Answer the following questions of the audio clip:
Title of the entire work
Composer
Genre of the entire work
What is the poetic image
Give the musical depiction: (description of the music)
Title of the entire work - The Four Seasons
Composer - Vivaldi
Genre of the entire work - Violin Concerto
What is the poetic image - the goatherd is sleeping and the dog is barking quietly. The leaves rustles.
Give the musical depiction: (description of the music) - slow, long melody to show the sleeping goatherd and viola’s dotted rhythm is the barking of a dog.
4.
Answer the questions of the audio clip:
Title of the entire work
Title of this movement
Composer
Genre of the entire work
Genre of this movement
What is the texture demonstrated in the audio clip
Title of the entire work: Messiah
Title of this movement: Hallelujah
Composer: Handel
Genre of the entire work: oratorio
Genre of this movement: choral
What is the texture demonstrated in the audio clip: homorhythmic texture (all voices in the same rhythm)
5.
Answer the following questions of the audio clip:
Title of the entire work
Composer
Genre of the this movement
Texture(s) of this movement
Title of the entire work - Prelude and Fugue in B flat major
Composer: JS Bach
Genre of the this movement: Prelude
Texture(s) of this movement: homophonic and polyphonic
6.
Answer the questions of the audio clip:
Title of the entire work
Title of this movement
Composer
Genre of the entire work
Genre of this movement
What is the predominant rhythm
Title of the entire work: Messiah
Title of this movement: Sinfony
Composer: Handel
Genre of the entire work: oratorio
Genre of this movement: French overture
What is the predominant rhythm: dotted
- Answer the following questions of the audio clip:
Title of the entire work:
Title of this movement:
Composer: Handel
Genre of the entire work: oratorio
Genre of this movement: solo soprano aria
Give one word painting
Title of the entire work: Messiah
Title of this movement: “Rejoice Greatly”
Composer: Handel
Genre of the entire work: oratorio
Genre of this movement: soprano aria
Give one word painting: melisma on “rejoice greatly” shows the joyful feeling
8.
Name the composer for the following statement.
This composer’s works often have alternation of homorhythymic (homophonic) with contrapuntal textures (polyphonic).
Handel
9.
Name the composer for the following statement.
This composer developed idiomatic writing for strings and contributed to the development of the three-movement concerto structure.
Vivaldi
10.
Name the composer for the following statements.
This composer composed works in virtually every genre except opera. His
personal faith was a source of inspiration for his works.
JS Bach
11.
Answer the following questions of the audio clip:
Title of the entire work
Composer
Genre of the entire work
What is the poetic image
Give the musical depiction: (description of the music)
Title of the entire work: The Four Seasons
Composer: Vivaldi
Genre of the entire work: solo violin
What is the poetic image: Spring
Give the musical depiction: (description of the music): bright and cheerful
12.
Answer the following questions of the audio clip:
Title of the entire work
Composer
Genre of the this movement
Texture(s) of this movement
How many voices are in this piece?
What kind of answer?
Title of the entire work: Prelude & Fugue in B flat major
Composer: JS Bach
Genre of the this movement: Prelude
Texture(s) of this movement: polyphonic
How many voices are in this piece? 3
What kind of answer? Tonal
13
Choose the correct term:
a speech-like style of singing used in operas, oratorios and cantatas
Ternary; idiomatic; recitative; prelude; basso continuo; subject
recitative
14
Choose the correct term:
the initial statement of the main theme of a fugue in the tonic key
Ternary; idiomatic; recitative; prelude; basso continuo; subject
subject
15
Choose the correct term:
Baroque performance practice that generally involves two performers - one playing the notated bass line and the other one playing the harmonies as indicated by the figured bass
Ternary; idiomatic; recitative; prelude; basso continuo; subject
Basso continuo
16
Choose the correct term:
a short keyboard work in improvisatory style
Ternary; idiomatic; recitative; prelude; basso continuo; subject
prelude
17
Choose the correct term:
ABA form
Ternary; idiomatic; recitative; prelude; basso continuo; subject
ternary
18
Choose the correct term:
opposite of ‘generic’. highlights the unique technical capabilities of an instrument
Ternary; idiomatic; recitative; prelude; basso continuo; subject
idiomatic
