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Question 1

2 out of 2 points

Which of the following letter schemes best represents the formal plan of a da capo aria?Answer

Selected Answer: ABA

Correct Answer: ABA

Question 2

2 out of 2 points

Patronage of seventeenth-century music consisted of _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

wealthy patrons, churches, and public performances of operas and concerts

Correct Answer:


Question 3

0 out of 2 points

The style of monody in which a solo singer sings speechlike dialogue to the accompaniment of simple chords is _____.Answer

Selected Answer: aria

Correct Answer: recitative

Question 4

0 out of 2 points

The composer known for his performance on the violin was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: Alessandro Scarlatti

Correct Answer: Arcangelo Corelli

Question 5

0 out of 2 points

Monteverdi developed Stile concitato to depict _____.Answer

Selected Answer: scenes of extreme sadness

Correct Answer: agitation

Question 6

0 out of 2 points

How did Cromwell’s prohibition against stage plays affect music performances?Answer

Selected Answer:

All music was banned from the stage.

Correct Answer:

The addition of music and elements from the masque made stage plays acceptable.

Question 7

2 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes a typical sonata da chiesa?Answer

Selected Answer:

It consisted of four movements, usually in slow-fast-slow-fast order.

Correct Answer:


Question 8

2 out of 2 points

Artusi criticized Monteverdi’s Cruda Amarilli because it _____.Answer

Selected Answer: violated Zarlino’s counterpoint rules

Correct Answer: violated Zarlino’s counterpoint rules

Question 9

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes the state of Lutheran church music after the Thirty Years’ War?Answer

Selected Answer:

Lutherans believed that only the minor mode should be used for the following thirty years.

Correct Answer:

Lutherans were divided in their opinions about the type of music that should be used.

Question 10

0 out of 2 points

The scholar whose study of ancient Greek texts led him to believe that all Greek plays had been sung was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: Galilei

Correct Answer: Mei

Question 11

0 out of 2 points

Composed Jewish liturgical polyphonic musicAnswer

Selected Answer: Lodovico Viadana

Correct Answer: Salamone Rossi

Question 12

0 out of 2 points

The large instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _____.Answer

Selected Answer: collegium musicum

Correct Answer: concerto grosso

Question 13

0 out of 2 points

Cesti composed his most famous opera for audiences in which region?Answer

Selected Answer: Northern Italy, including Venice

Correct Answer: Austria

Question 14

2 out of 2 points

The term Baroque is now applied to _____.Answer

Selected Answer: music from ca. 1600–1750

Correct Answer: music from ca. 1600–1750

Question 15

0 out of 2 points

The Florentine Camerata was _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

a traveling band of musicians and actors who brought music and theater to small-town audiences

Correct Answer:

members of the count of Florence’s private chapel

Question 16

2 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes the use of chromaticism in the Baroque era?Answer

Selected Answer:

Chromaticism expressed only emotions at first, but later was used in harmonic exploration.

Correct Answer:


Question 17

0 out of 2 points

Seventeenth-century sculpture sought to _____.Answer

Selected Answer: break down the barriers between art and science

Correct Answer: portray more drama and emotion

Question 18

0 out of 2 points

The text for an opera is called a(n) _____.Answer

Selected Answer: lyrical poem

Correct Answer: libretto

Question 19

0 out of 2 points

The texture of Baroque music is marked by _____.Answer

Selected Answer: equality of all voices

Correct Answer: a polarity between bass and treble lines

Question 20

0 out of 2 points

What instrument was most commonly featured in solo sonatas?Answer

Selected Answer: trumpet

Correct Answer: violin

Question 21

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes Schütz’s training and career?Answer

Selected Answer:

He learned violin, keyboard, and composition from his father, and succeeded his father in the service of the elector of Hanover.

Correct Answer:

He studied with Gabrieli in Venice, then worked in Kassel and Dresden.

Question 22

0 out of 2 points

A repeating bass line used as the basis of variations is called _____.Answer

Selected Answer: basso continuo

Correct Answer: ostinato bass

Question 23

0 out of 2 points

Figured bass is _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

a bass line notated with embellishments to equal embellishments in the top voice

Correct Answer:

a bass line notated with numbers to indicate chords above it

Question 24

2 out of 2 points

The Passion is a _____.Answer

Selected Answer: multi-movement work depicting the last days of Christ

Correct Answer: multi-movement work depicting the last days of Christ

Question 25

0 out of 2 points

The count who hosted gatherings of poets and musicians at his home was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: Mei

Correct Answer: Bardi

Question 26

0 out of 2 points

In Baroque music, “affections” can be defined as _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

the Church’s belief that God’s love was called forth with the proper performance of vocal music

Correct Answer:

the spirits or “humors” believed to harbor emotions, and which could be brought into balance with contrasting moods of music

Question 27

0 out of 2 points

Published more cantatas than any other composer of the early seventeenth centuryAnswer


Correct Answer: Barbara Strozzi

Question 28

0 out of 2 points

Public concerts of instrumental music first began in _____.Answer

Selected Answer: France

Correct Answer: England

Question 29

0 out of 2 points

An opera by Lully might also be called a(n) _____.Answer

Selected Answer: ouvrage

Correct Answer: tragédie en musique or tragédie lyrique

Question 30

0 out of 2 points

Which of these statements is true of the role of improvisation in Baroque music?Answer

Selected Answer:

Everything was written out, with no room for improvisation.

Correct Answer:

Part of the accompaniment was written out, the rest improvised, and the melody could be embellished.

Question 31

0 out of 2 points

In Rome, roles for high voices were sung by _____.Answer

Selected Answer: professional female singers

Correct Answer: men who had been castrated as boys

Question 32

0 out of 2 points

The earliest opera plots were based on _____.Answer

Selected Answer: historical events

Correct Answer: mythological characters and events

Question 33

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes the Renaissance antecedents of opera?Answer

Selected Answer:

There was no staged music before opera, but dance songs sometimes included dialogue.

Correct Answer:

Opera arose directly from the madrigal cycle without other influences.

Question 34

2 out of 2 points

In the seventeenth century, _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

colonies in the Americas imported villancicos from Spain and metric psalmody from England

Correct Answer:


Question 35

2 out of 2 points

The seventeenth century was an era in which _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

scientists combined deductive reasoning and direct observation for the first time

Correct Answer:

scientists combined deductive reasoning and direct observation for the first time

Question 36

0 out of 2 points

Stadtpfeifers were _____.Answer

Selected Answer: members of amateur music-making clubs

Correct Answer: musicians hired to provide music for the city

Question 37

2 out of 2 points

Jean-Baptiste Lully is best known for his contribution to the development of _____.Answer

Selected Answer: opera

Correct Answer: opera

Question 38

0 out of 2 points

Divisions and partite are terms for _____.Answer

Selected Answer: dance steps that divide or partition the measure

Correct Answer: variations movements

Question 39

2 out of 2 points

The term Baroque was first applied to _____.Answer

Selected Answer: overly ornate embellishments in architecture

Correct Answer: overly ornate embellishments in architecture

Question 40

2 out of 2 points

Tuning systems in the Baroque era gradually came to favor _____.Answer

Selected Answer: equal temperament

Correct Answer: equal temperament

Question 41

0 out of 2 points

Music of the Great Stable was _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

music performed in the area in front of the stage in a theater

Correct Answer:

an ensemble composed of wind, brass, and timpani players who provided military and outdoor music for the French monarchy

Question 42

0 out of 2 points

The concertato medium consisted of _____.Answer

Selected Answer: two treble instruments plus a keyboard

Correct Answer: a mixed grouping of voices and instruments

Question 43

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes the Italian secular cantata?Answer

Selected Answer:

a mini-opera with scenery and costumes

Correct Answer:

many short, contrasting sections with recitatives and arias for solo voice with continuo

Question 44

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes a typical sonata da camera?Answer

Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:

It consisted of several stylized dances preceded by a prelude.

Question 45

0 out of 2 points

Monteverdi called his approach to composition _____.Answer

Selected Answer: doctrine of affections

Correct Answer: seconda pratica

Question 46

0 out of 2 points

The genre cultivated for Christmas and Easter in colonial Latin America was the _____.Answer

Selected Answer: carol

Correct Answer: villancico

Question 47

0 out of 2 points

The zarzuela was _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

an Italian adaptation of French ballet

Correct Answer:

the predominant genre of musical theater in Spain for several centuries

Question 48

2 out of 2 points

Louis XIV and other members of the nobility took part in performances of which genre?Answer

Selected Answer: the court ballet

Correct Answer: the court ballet

Question 49

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best defines the cantata in the seventeenth century?Answer

Selected Answer:

A series of variations on a well-known song

Correct Answer: A succession of arias and recitatives in a brief, unstaged work

Question 50

0 out of 2 points

The leading composer of church music in France during the late seventeenth century was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: Jean-Baptiste Lully

Correct Answer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Question 1

0 out of 2 points

The main patron(s) of music in the French Baroque was/were _____.Answer

Selected Answer: the Cathedral of Notre Dame

Correct Answer: Louis XIV

Question 2

0 out of 2 points

The main composer of Roman oratoriosAnswer


Correct Answer: Giacomo Carissimi

Question 3

0 out of 2 points

Monteverdi’s seventh and eighth books of madrigals are best known for _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

being attacked by Artusi because they break counterpoint rules

Correct Answer: including madrigals in the concertato medium

Question 4

2 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes the form of the French overture?Answer

Selected Answer:

a slow opening marked by dotted rhythms, followed by a fast fugal section, with an optional slow closing section

Correct Answer:


Question 5

0 out of 2 points

San Petronio in Bologna was known for being a center for developments in _____.Answer

Selected Answer: sacred concerto

Correct Answer: instrumental music

Question 6

0 out of 2 points

Realization is _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

Monteverdi’s term for the compositional techniques that Artusi criticized

Correct Answer:

filling in the chords above a bass line according to the numbers above the line

Question 7

2 out of 2 points

Alessandro Scarlatti is known mainly for works in which genre(s)?Answer

Selected Answer: secular cantata and opera

Correct Answer: secular cantata and opera

Question 8

0 out of 2 points

Jean-Baptiste Lully is best known for his contribution to the development of _____.Answer

Selected Answer: oratorio


Question 9

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: Alessandro Scarlatti


Question 10

0 out of 2 points

Fiori musicali was _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

a treatise on composing church music according to revised principles of the prima pratica

Correct Answer:

a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass

Question 11

0 out of 2 points

Stylized dance music suites in France were most often performed by _____.Answer

Selected Answer: the Vingt-quatre violons du Roi

Correct Answer: lute or harpsichord

Question 12

2 out of 2 points

The small instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _____.Answer

Selected Answer: concertino

Correct Answer: concertino

Question 13

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 14

0 out of 2 points

In 1722, Rameau developed an influential theory of _____.Answer

Selected Answer: embellishment

Correct Answer: harmony

Question 15

0 out of 2 points

Henry Purcell’s employer was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: the Church of England

Correct Answer: the English monarchy

Question 16

0 out of 2 points

Which scoring is typical of Lully’s orchestration?Answer

Selected Answer: two violins plus continuo

Correct Answer: fivepart string orchestra augmented by woodwinds

Question 17

2 out of 2 points

Which genre substituted for opera when public theaters were closed?Answer

Selected Answer: oratorio

Correct Answer: oratorio

Question 18

0 out of 2 points




Question 19

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 20

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Question 21

0 out of 2 points




Question 22

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best defines the cantata in the seventeenth century?Answer

Selected Answer:

A series of variations on a well-known song

Correct Answer: A succession of arias and recitatives in a brief, unstaged work

Question 23

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 24

2 out of 2 points



Correct Answer: Mei

Question 25

0 out of 2 points




Question 26

2 out of 2 points




Question 27

0 out of 2 points

An opera by Lully might also be called a(n) _____.Answer

Selected Answer: ouvrage

Correct Answer: tragédie en musique or tragédie lyrique

Question 28

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:

He was the first major composer to be trained and employed exclusively in German-speaking lands.

Correct Answer:


Question 29

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: women who had been trained in the church


Question 30

0 out of 2 points




Question 31

2 out of 2 points

Published the first book of sacred music with basso continuoAnswer


Correct Answer: Lodovico Viadana

Question 32

0 out of 2 points

The tonal organization of a dance movement in binary form (assuming a major key) can best be summarized as _____.Answer

Selected Answer: ||: I :|| ||: I :|| ||: I :|| etc.

Correct Answer: ||: I–V :|| ||: V–I :||

Question 33

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 34

0 out of 2 points

The poet who wrote the text for some of the first operas was _____.Answer


Correct Answer: Rinuccini

Question 35

0 out of 2 points

Cesti composed his most famous opera for audiences in which region?Answer

Selected Answer: Northern Italy, including Venice

Correct Answer: Austria

Question 36

0 out of 2 points

Antonio Stradivari was instrumental in the development of the _____.Answer

Selected Answer: organ


Question 37

0 out of 2 points

The form of the typical late-seventeenth-century toccata is _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

a series of entrances on a theme, followed by improvisatory music

Correct Answer:

a series of short sections in free style alternating with longer ones in imitative counterpoint

Question 38

0 out of 2 points




Question 39

2 out of 2 points

Which of the following is not characteristic of Roman oratorios?Answer

Selected Answer: They were elaborately staged.

Correct Answer: They were elaborately staged.

Question 40

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 41

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 42

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following letter schemes best represents the formal plan of a da capo aria?Answer

Selected Answer: AAAAA

Correct Answer: ABA

Question 43

0 out of 2 points




Question 44

0 out of 2 points

Published more cantatas than any other composer of the early seventeenth century

Answer



Question 45

0 out of 2 points

What was the most common instrumentation for the sonata after ca. 1650?Answer

Selected Answer:

Any instrument or combination of instruments could be used.

Correct Answer: One or two treble instruments (usually violin(s)) and harpsichord

Question 46

0 out of 2 points

The large instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _____.Answer


Correct Answer: concerto grosso

Question 47

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:

the first large ensemble of the violin family

Correct Answer:


Question 48

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes the use of chromaticism in the Baroque era?Answer

Selected Answer:

Chromaticism was used only for expression of strong emotions.

Correct Answer:


Question 49

0 out of 2 points

The earliest opera plots were based on _____.Answer

Selected Answer: historical events

Correct Answer: mythological characters and events

Question 50

0 out of 2 points

Le nuove musiche was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: Monteverdi’s term for the modern style

Correct Answer: a collection of songs in monody by Caccini

Question 1

2 out of 2 points

Henry Purcell is best known for composing in which genres?Answer

Selected Answer: English opera, semi-opera, and incidental music for plays

Correct Answer: English opera, semi-opera, and incidental music for plays

Question 2

0 out of 2 points

Monody is the modern term for _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

the use of repeated pitches over a sustained chord

Correct Answer: all accompanied solo singing of the early seventeenth century

Question 3

2 out of 2 points

Artusi criticized Monteverdi’s Cruda Amarilli because it _____.Answer

Selected Answer: violated Zarlino’s counterpoint rules

Correct Answer: violated Zarlino’s counterpoint rules

Question 4

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: Stradella


Question 5

2 out of 2 points

The standard order of movements in seventeenth-century French suites was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue

Correct Answer: allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue

Question 6

0 out of 2 points

The center for opera development after its initial development in Florence was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: Venice

Correct Answer: Rome

Question 7

0 out of 2 points

The form of the typical late-seventeenth-century toccata is _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

a series of entrances on a theme, followed by improvisatory music

Correct Answer:

a series of short sections in free style alternating with longer ones in imitative counterpoint

Question 8

0 out of 2 points




Question 9

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 10

0 out of 2 points

Monteverdi developed Stile concitato to depict _____.Answer

Selected Answer: scenes of extreme sadness

Correct Answer: agitation

Question 11

2 out of 2 points

Two of Monteverdi’s pupils and his successors as composers of Venetian opera were _____.Answer

Selected Answer: Cavalli and Cesti

Correct Answer: Cavalli and Cesti

Question 12

0 out of 2 points




Question 13

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 14

2 out of 2 points




Question 15

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 16

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 17

0 out of 2 points

The composer who collaborated on the first operas of the Florentine Camerata was _____.Answer


Correct Answer: Peri

Question 18

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 19

2 out of 2 points

The typical movements of a Torelli concerto are _____.Answer

Selected Answer: fast-slow-fast

Correct Answer: fast-slow-fast

Question 20

0 out of 2 points

The Banchetto musicale was _____.Answer

Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:

a collection of suites using dance movements in a standard sequence

Question 21

0 out of 2 points




Question 22

2 out of 2 points

The main chamber instruments in seventeenth-century Spain were _____.Answer

Selected Answer: harp and guitar

Correct Answer: harp and guitar

Question 23

0 out of 2 points

The poet who wrote the text for some of the first operas was _____.Answer


Correct Answer: Rinuccini

Question 24

0 out of 2 points

Arioso is best defined as _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

a compositional style aimed at showing off a singer’s virtuosity

Correct Answer: a singing style midway between aria and recitative

Question 25

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: They were elaborately staged.


Question 26

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 27

0 out of 2 points

Musical figures were _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

the English version of agrments

Correct Answer:

counterpoint patterns that had become associated with specific emotions

Question 28

0 out of 2 points

Figured bass is _____.Answer

Selected a bass line notated with embellishments to equal

Answer: embellishments in the top voice

Correct Answer:

a bass line notated with numbers to indicate chords above it

Question 29

2 out of 2 points



Correct Answer: Mei

Question 30

0 out of 2 points

Antonio Stradivari was instrumental in the development of the _____.Answer

Selected Answer: organ


Question 31

2 out of 2 points




Question 32

0 out of 2 points




Question 33

0 out of 2 points




Question 34

0 out of 2 points

Published more cantatas than any other composer of the early seventeenth centuryAnswer



Question 35

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: the Cathedral of Notre Dame


Question 36

0 out of 2 points

Stile brisé, developed by lutenists, was imitated in _____.Answer

Selected Answer: opera arias

Correct Answer: harpsichord music

Question 37

0 out of 2 points

Concerts of sacred music given by Buxtehude were called _____.Answer

Selected Answer: Singspiels

Correct Answer: Abendmusiken

Question 38

0 out of 2 points




Question 39

0 out of 2 points

Stadtpfeifers were _____.Answer

Selected Answer: members of amateur music-making clubs

Correct Answer: musicians hired to provide music for the city

Question 40

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:

the first large ensemble of the violin family

Correct Answer:


Question 41

0 out of 2 points

The text for an opera is called a(n) _____.Answer

Selected Answer: lyrical poem

Correct Answer: libretto

Question 42

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass

Correct Answer: a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass

Question 43

2 out of 2 points

La pœrpura de la rosa was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: the first opera produced in the New World

Correct Answer: the first opera produced in the New World

Question 44

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 45

0 out of 2 points

Monteverdi’s seventh and eighth books of madrigals are best known for _____.Answer

Selected Answer: compositions in the prima pratica style

Correct Answer: including madrigals in the concertato medium

Question 46

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:

wealthy patrons who hired musicians for their private chapels

Correct Answer:


Question 47

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 48

0 out of 2 points

What was the most common instrumentation for the sonata after ca. 1650?Answer

Selected Answer:

Any instrument or combination of instruments could be used.

Correct Answer: One or two treble instruments (usually violin(s)) and harpsichord

Question 49

0 out of 2 points




Question 50

2 out of 2 points

Alessandro Scarlatti is known mainly for works in which genre(s)?Answer

Selected Answer: secular cantata and opera

Correct Answer: secular cantata and opera

Question 1

0 out of 2 points

The instrumentation for a trio sonata typically consisted of _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

two treble instruments and a cello

Correct Answer:

two treble instruments, an optional cello or viola da gamba, and harpsichord or organ

Question 2

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: Salamone Rossi


Question 3

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer: It consisted of several stylized dances preceded by a prelude.

Question 4

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: ostinato bass


Question 5

2 out of 2 points

Stile brisé, developed by lutenists, was imitated in _____.Answer

Selected Answer: harpsichord music

Correct Answer: harpsichord music

Question 6

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 7

2 out of 2 points

The most important composer of toccatas in the early seventeenth century was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: Frescobaldi

Correct Answer: Frescobaldi

Question 8

2 out of 2 points

In the seventeenth century, _____.Answer

Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 9

2 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes the form of the French overture?Answer

Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 10

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier


Question 11

2 out of 2 points

Which scoring is typical of Lully’s orchestration?Answer

Selected Answer: fivepart string orchestra augmented by woodwinds

Correct Answer: fivepart string orchestra augmented by woodwinds

Question 12

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 13

0 out of 2 points

Though a nun, she published a collection of her compositions.Answer

Selected Answer: Giacomo Carissimi

Correct Answer: Lucrezia Vizzana

Question 14

2 out of 2 points

The forces for the small-scale sacred concerto typically consisted of _____.Answer

Selected Answer: one or more solo singers with organ and one or two violins

Correct Answer: one or more solo singers with organ and one or two violins

Question 15

0 out of 2 points

Tonal organization in the Baroque featured _____.Answer

Selected Answer: the twelve church modes

Correct Answer: major and minor tonalities

Question 16

0 out of 2 points

Musical figures were _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

rhythmic patterns derived from dance steps that were sometimes used in an aria to suggest the moral qualities of the character singing it

Correct Answer:

counterpoint patterns that had become associated with specific emotions

Question 17

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:

They were performed in the oratory portions of Roman churches.


Question 18

0 out of 2 points

Monteverdi called his approach to composition _____.Answer

Selected Answer: doctrine of affections

Correct Answer: seconda pratica

Question 19

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: Peri

Correct Answer: Mei

Question 20

0 out of 2 points

The style of monody in which a solo singer sings speechlike dialogue to the accompaniment of simple chords is _____.Answer

Selected Answer: aria

Correct Answer: recitative

Question 21

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Question 22

0 out of 2 points

The instruments of the continuo group usually consist of _____.Answer


Correct Answer: one bass instrument, such as a viol, plus a keyboard or lute

Question 23

0 out of 2 points

Monody is the modern term for _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

the use of repeated pitches over a sustained chord

Correct Answer: all accompanied solo singing of the early seventeenth century

Question 24

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 25

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass

Correct Answer: a collection of organ music composed for use in Mass

Question 26

0 out of 2 points

Arioso is best defined as _____.Answer

Selected Answer:

a compositional style aimed at showing off a singer’s virtuosity

Correct Answer: a singing style midway between aria and recitative

Question 27

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following statements best describes the use of chromaticism in the era?Answer

Selected Answer:

Chromaticism was used only for expression of strong emotions.

Correct Answer:


Question 28

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 29

0 out of 2 points




Question 30

0 out of 2 points




Question 31

0 out of 2 points

Which of the following is not true of mid-seventeenth-century Italian opera style?Answer

Selected Answer:

There was a concentration on solo singing, with more arias per act.

Correct Answer:

Singers and spectacle had replaced drama as the focus of interest.

Question 32

2 out of 2 points

Henry Purcell is best known for composing in which genres?Answer

Selected Answer: English opera, semi-opera, and incidental music for plays

Correct Answer: English opera, semi-opera, and incidental music for plays

Question 33

0 out of 2 points


Selected Lutherans believed that only the minor mode should be used

Answer: for the following thirty years.

Correct Answer:


Question 34

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 35

0 out of 2 points




Question 36

0 out of 2 points

In modern editions of Baroque music, small notes in a keyboard part indicate _____.Answer

Selected Answer: alternate pitches

Correct Answer: editorial suggestions to flesh out unnotated parts

Question 37

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 38

0 out of 2 points

Seventeenth-century sculpture sought to _____.Answer

Selected Answer: replicate classical aesthetics

Correct Answer: portray more drama and emotion

Question 39

0 out of 2 points

Le nuove musiche was _____.Answer

Selected Answer: Monteverdi’s term for the modern style

Correct Answer: a collection of songs in monody by Caccini

Question 40

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 41

2 out of 2 points


Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Question 42

0 out of 2 points


Selected Answer: collegium musicum


Question 43

2 out of 2 points

Published the first book of sacred music with basso continuoAnswer


Correct Answer: Lodovico Viadana

Question 44

0 out of 2 points




Question 45

2 out of 2 points

The Passion is a _____.Answer

Selected Answer: multi-movement work depicting the last days of Christ

Correct Answer: multi-movement work depicting the last days of Christ

Question 46

0 out of 2 points

The Banchetto musicale was _____.Answer

Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:

a collection of suites using dance movements in a standard sequence

Question 47

2 out of 2 points

Jean-Baptiste Lully is best known for his contribution to the development of _____.

Answer

Selected Answer: opera


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Question 50

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Selected Answer: middle-class concert audiences


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