AOS2 Concerto Through Time

Question 1

What is a concerto?

Answer 1

a musical composition for a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra, especially one conceived on a relatively large scale.

Question 2

What does tutti mean?

Answer 2

Tutti is when all the orchestra in a concerto plays

Question 3

What is a Cadenza?

Answer 3

A virtuoso solo passage inserted into a movement in a concerto or other musical work, typically near the end.

Question 4

How would a musician play virtuosically?

Answer 4

They would play in quick scales/arpeggios at extreme registers, large leaps (ornamentation).

Question 5

What are themes in a concerto?

Answer 5

(Musical phrases and ideas) are passed between the soloist and the orchestra.

Question 6

When was the Baroque era in music? (Name the year period not century)

Answer 6

1600-1750

Question 7

What are terraced dynamics?

Answer 7

It is when the whole ensamble will change volume suddenly with hardly any crescendo’s or diminuendo’s. And every part of the ensamble is at the same dynamic at that time.

Question 8

What is a continuo section? (Cello, lute, harpsichord/organ)

Answer 8

The cello would play the bass line while the chordal instrument play chords to fill in the texture.