Exam 2

Question 0

Pope Gregory

Answer 0

Gregorian chant

Question 1

Chant

Answer 1

Plainchant, music of early Christian church

Question 2

Melisma

Answer 2

Notes set to a single syllable

Question 3

Troubadours

Answer 3

Poor musicians in southern France

Question 4

Organum

Answer 4

Plain chant was decorated with one or more simultaneous interweaving musical

Question 5

Hildegard of bingen

Answer 5

The daughter of a noble couple who promised her, as their 10th child, to service the church as a tithe

Question 6

A Capella

Answer 6

Choral music performed without instrumental accompaniment

Question 7

Motet

Answer 7

Single Latin text

Question 8

Word painting

Answer 8

Musical pictorialization of words as an expressive device feature of Renaissance

Question 9

Mass

Answer 9

Central service of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 10

Council of Trent

Answer 10

Long meeting with the church

Question 11

Opera

Answer 11

Music drama that is sung throughout

Question 12

Libretto

Answer 12

Text and scripture of opera and musical

Question 13

Aria

Answer 13

Lyric song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment, intense emotion, opera

Question 14

Da capo aria

Answer 14

Lyric song in ternary, a-b-a opera

Question 15

Recitative

Answer 15

Solo vocal declamation that focuses the inflections of the text, resulting in a distjunct vocal style

Question 16

Overture

Answer 16

Introductory movement, as in a opera or oratorio orchestra work for concert performance

Question 17

Church cantata

Answer 17

Of Johann Sebastian Bach were mostly written for the Lutheran church service

Question 18

Oratorio

Answer 18

One of the great baroque sacred vocal forms, decended of the counter reformation

Question 19

Chorale

Answer 19

Congregational hymn of the German Lutheran church

Question 20

Terraced dynamics

Answer 20

Volume levels shift abruptly between soft and loud

Question 21

Concerto grosso

Answer 21

Baroque concerto type based on the opposition btw a small group of solo instruments

Question 22

Dance suite

Answer 22

Dance peices in the same key

Question 23

Fugue

Answer 23

Polyphonic form popular in the baroque era, one or more themes are developed by imitative counterpoint

Question 24

Program music

Answer 24

Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations

Question 25

Embellishments/ornaments

Answer 25

Melodic decoration, either improvised or indicated through ornamentation signs in the music

Question 26

Prelude/ toccata

Answer 26

Instrumental work proceeding a larger work

Question 27

Kyrie

Answer 27

Lord, have mercy

Question 28

Gloria

Answer 28

Glory to God

Question 29

Credo

Answer 29

I believe..

Question 30

Sanctus

Answer 30

Holy, holy, holy

Question 31

Agnus Dei

Answer 31

Lamb of god

Question 32

Dona nobis pacem

Answer 32

Grant US peace

Question 33

Dido and Aeneas

Answer 33

Purcell

Question 34

Pope Marcellus mass

Answer 34

Giovanni Palestrina

Question 35

Orfeo

Answer 35

Claudio monteverdi

Question 36

The Brandenburg concerti

Answer 36

JS Bach

Question 37

The four seasons

Answer 37

Antonio Vivaldi

Question 38

Messiah

Answer 38

George Fredrick Handel

Question 39

Water music

Answer 39

George Handel

Question 40

Machaut

Answer 40

Wrote the first complete polyphonic setting of the ordinary of the mass

Question 41

Joaquin

Answer 41

Renaissance composer who became popular due to printed music

Question 42

Palestrina

Answer 42

Composer of Catholic Church music who wrote over 100 settings of the mass

Question 43

Monteverdi

Answer 43

Italian composer of motels, madrigals, and the first real opera

Question 44

Purcell

Answer 44

Greatest English composer of the baroque era

Question 45

Vivaldi

Answer 45

Italian priest, violinist, and educater who wrote over 450 concerti

Question 46

JS Bach

Answer 46

Church organist choir master in Germany who wrote over 200 church cantatas as well as instrumental music and choral works

Question 47

Handel

Answer 47

German musician who traveled to Italy and England, writing over 40 Italian operas before turning to oratorio