Baroque

Question 1

What are opera and oratorio and how are they related?

Answer 1

Operas are secular, about non religious stories, with acting, costumes, and scenery. Oratorios are secular about religious texts, without costumes, acting, and scenery. Operas and oratorios both have arias. Operas are musical theater, and oratorios are concert pieces. Operas have acting and characters interact with each other, oratorios do not. Opera=Orfeo, Oratorio=Messiah

Question 2

Affections

Answer 2

emotion, feeling, sentiment

Question 3

Terraced Dynamics

Answer 3

abrupt shift

Question 4

Basso Continuo

Answer 4

an accompanying part that includes a bass line and harmonies, typically played on a keyboard instrument and with other instruments such as cello or bass viol

Question 5

Figured Bass

Answer 5

bass part with numbers

Question 6

Movement

Answer 6

sounds like its own piece, but is part of a larger work

Question 7

Fugue

Answer 7

composition with one main theme

Question 8

Aria

Answer 8

a long, accompanied song for a solo voice`

Question 9

Libretto

Answer 9

text of an opera

Question 10

Overture

Answer 10

short composition, purely instrumental, introduces an opera or any longer work

Question 11

Suite

Answer 11

a set of instrumental compositions, originally in dance style, to be played in succession.

Question 12

Opera

Answer 12

a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists

Question 13

Oratorio

Answer 13

(Messiah) Large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative text, but without acting, scenery, or costumes; often based on biblical stories

Question 14

What does the term baroque mean?

Answer 14

Bizarre, flamboyant, ornamented

Question 15

Baroque time period?

Answer 15

1600 - 1750

Question 16

George Frideric Handel?

Answer 16

Went to England for 47 years, composer, Messiah, started in Germany, wrote opera and oratorios, queen Anne’s favorite composer, 3,000 mourners

Question 17

Johann Sebastian Bach?

Answer 17

Organist, organ teacher, composer, most eminent organ player

Question 18

When does instrumental music become as important as vocal?

Answer 18

late

Question 19

What are the affections?

Answer 19

Emotion of the performer

Question 20

What does repeated rhythmic patterns provide in music?

Answer 20

Energy and drive

Question 21

Describe baroque melodies?

Answer 21

Heavily ornamented

Question 22

A melodic sequence is?

Answer 22

Where melody is repeated at different pitch level

Question 23

What were the keyboard instruments of the baroque era? Which one was considered for home use?

Answer 23

Harpsichord, clavichord, pipe organ. Clavichord.

Question 24

What is basso continuo?

Answer 24

Continuous bass, keyboard and low string instruments make a continuous bassline

Question 25

Which bass part has numbers that tell a musician what to play?

Answer 25

Figured bass

Question 26

What instrument family becomes the major part of the orchestra?

Answer 26

strings(violin family)

Question 27

What is a music director’s responsibilities? And what is their social standing?

Answer 27

Pay was high, was a high class servant

Question 28

Why does Bach write the harpsichord into the Brandenburg Concertos as a soloist?

Answer 28

Employer bought brand new instrument, so he wrote it in as a solo to feature it

Question 29

What is the main theme of a fugue called? And what is it called when it is restated in the dominant key?

Answer 29

Subject, answer

Question 30

What is set to music, accompanied by an orchestra, has scenery, costumes, action, and is full of drama?

Answer 30

opera

Question 31

What is the text of an opera called?

Answer 31

libretto

Question 32

An opera song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called?

Answer 32

aria

Question 33

In opera if two main voices are singing it is called a…?

Answer 33

duet

Question 34

In opera if three or more main voices are singing it is called an…?

Answer 34

ensemble

Question 35

What is the conductor’s role with an opera?

Answer 35

Shapes work with tempos, cues, dynamics

Question 36

When is an overture played during an opera?

Answer 36

The beginning

Question 37

When and where did the first public opera house open?

Answer 37

Venice in 1637

Question 38

What is the name of Orpheus’s wife?

Answer 38

Eurydice

Question 39

What are the castrati?

Answer 39

Group of male singers who were castrated before puberty

Question 40

Where is Henry Purcell buried, and why did he get that honor?

Answer 40

Beneath the organ in Westminster Abbey, because he was the organist for the church, and he was a great opera writer.

Question 41

Where did Vivaldi spend his life teaching?

Answer 41

Pieta in Venice, a school for orphaned girls

Question 42

What piece of program music is Vivaldi famous for?

Answer 42

Spring

Question 43

What did Bach do when he was in Leipzig?

Answer 43

DIrector of music at St. Mark’s church

Question 44

Bach was the most ________ of his day?

Answer 44

Eminent organ player

Question 45

Where did Bach pull his musical style from?

Answer 45

Italian concertos, French dance, German church music

Question 46

What are suites?

Answer 46

sets of dance inspired movements

Question 47

What is like an opera, but draws its material from the bible and doesn’t have acting or costumes?

Answer 47

oratorios

Question 48

What composer was born the same year as Bach?

Answer 48

Handel

Question 49

Where did Handel take an extended leave to?

Answer 49

England