Baroque

Question 1

Suite

Answer 1

An ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces

Question 2

Oratorio

Answer 2

A large scale musical composition on a sacred subject for solo voices chorus or orchestra

Question 3

Concerto

Answer 3

Musical composition for instruments in which a solo instrument is set off against an orchestral ensemble

Question 4

Melodic sequence

Answer 4

A melodic idea that is immediately repeated a different pitch level

Question 5

Stretto

Answer 5

A passage at the end of a movement in faster tempo

Question 6

Trio texture

Answer 6

4 players

Question 7

Opera

Answer 7

An art form that tells a story through music and singing

Question 8

Ostinato

Answer 8

A motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice and the same pitch

Question 9

Recitative

Answer 9

A half singing, half reciting style of presenting words in opera, cantatas, etc.

Question 10

Fantasies

Answer 10

A musical composition that doesn’t have a strict form

Question 11

Figured bass

Answer 11

Musical notation where numbers and symbols appear above or below a note

Question 12

Answer

Answer 12

Second entry of the subject in a fugue

Question 13

Tocatta

Answer 13

To touch

Question 14

Hemiola

Answer 14

When there are 3 half notes in a 3/4 measure

Question 15

Fugue

Answer 15

A musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices

Question 16

Basso continuo

Answer 16

The bass line within music

Question 17

Cantata

Answer 17

A musical composition intended to be sung

Question 18

Notes inegales

Answer 18

Rhythmic convention where certain divisions of the beat move in alternately long and short values

Question 19

Pedal points

Answer 19

A sustained note in the bass

Question 20

Countersubject

Answer 20

A theme in a fugue that occurs simultaneously with the second

Question 21

Trio Sonata

Answer 21

4 movement piece with three instruments

Question 22

A cappella

Answer 22

Singing without instrument accompaniment

Question 23

Concertino

Answer 23

Solo instrument playing with an orchestra

Question 24

Terraced dynamics

Answer 24

A sudden change from one dynamic level to another without a crescendo or diminuendo

Question 25

Ripieno

Answer 25

Body of instruments accompanying the concertino

Question 26

Ground bass

Answer 26

Short melody that is repeated by the bass section

Question 27

Prima practica

Answer 27

The perfection of 16th century counterpoint

Question 28

Concerto grosso

Answer 28

Small groups of soloists with full orchestra

Question 29

Sonata

Answer 29

A type of composition for solo instrument or small instrumental

Question 30

Ode

Answer 30

A lyric poem with complex stanza forms

Question 31

Compound meter

Answer 31

Meters in which the beat divides into three

Question 32

Countertenor

Answer 32

When a male vocal range is equivalent to a sopranos

Question 33

Second practica

Answer 33

The need to express the meaning of words surpassed any other concern

Question 34

Doctrine of affections

Answer 34

Embraced the proposition that music is capable of having multiple emotions within the listener

Question 35

French overture

Answer 35

Musical form that is divided into two parts that are enclosed by double bars and repeat signs

Question 36

Subject

Answer 36

A recognizable melody in which part of all of a composition is based on

Question 37

Ritornello

Answer 37

A recurring passage

Question 38

Concertato

Answer 38

A style of music in which a group of instruments share a melody in alternation