Exam 3 Flashcards
(91 cards)
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While living in Canon Park, Handel had access to the local parish which allowed room for concert music and included the organ behind the alter.
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True
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Handel was in love with _____ opera and had plans to bring it to the ______ audience.
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Italian; London
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Handel’s Messiah is written in
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English
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Despite Handel being active in England, he was born in
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Germany
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Handel’s father banned all instruments from home and discouraged his son to become a musician
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True
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One of the impacts of “The Beggar’s Opera” was that:
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Handel’s opera company went bankrupt
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Handel’s opera Acis and Galatea is special because
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It is Handel’s first opera in English
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England’s King George I introduced himself to the people of London by traveling on a barge over the Thames river. What was the name of Handel’s music used for that occasion?
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Water Music
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Handel was a public figure and as such he had many supporters but also many critics. Some of the critics even made cartoons of him depicting him as a:
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“Pig in a wig”
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Handel’s most famous composition is probably:
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Messiah
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Corelli spent most of his life in
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Rome
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Who composed the violin concertos “The Four Seasons”
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Vivaldi
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Who composes the opera “Julius Ceaser”
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Handel
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born in
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Germany
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One of the most well known compositions by Handel is
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Oratorio Messiah
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Vivaldi was born and active in
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Venice
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Bach began his professional life more as an organist than a composer
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True
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Handel was a German composer that spent a large part of his life in London
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True
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The basic difference between concerto and concerto grosso is the number of soloists
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True
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The most common form used in the movements for concerto grosso is ritornello form
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True
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The group of soloists in a concerto grosso is called tutti
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False
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The structure of Ritomello form could be defined as
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Alteration between solo and tutti
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Composers from periods after Bach such as Mozart, Beethoven, Schumman, Chopin, etc. learned how to compose by playing pieces of Bach
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True
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What is the name of one of the composers that has a dramatic influence on Bach
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Vivaldi
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During his years in Leipzig, working at the Thomaskirche, Bach's music included numerous
Cantatas
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When composing his cantatas Bach did not have any pressure of time. He had the luxury to compose the cantatas over several weeks and months
False
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Bach's only wife died a few days after Bach's death
False
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At age 18, Bach secured his first official post as organist at the Neuekirche in Amstadt
True
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Due to his own religious upbringing, Bach's music is associated with which religion
Lutheran ?
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Johann Sebastian Bach was the first musician in his family
False
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When Bach died he was mourned more as an organist and keyboard player than as a composer
True
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Biologist Lewis Thomas expressed that the best message to send to the outer space was the complete works by Johann Sebastian Bach
True
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_________ was a popular form of baroque. Using in general a baroque orchestra (violins, violas, cellos, basses, and keyboard). And a soloist(any instrument).
Concerto
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The orchestra, which acts as accompaniment, is often called
Tutti meaning all
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The concertos had in general _______
3 contrasting movements
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The order of the movements are
Fast, slow, fast, slow
First and third are written in ritornello form
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Movement is
Major structural unit- part of a whole
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In ______________, the tutti orchestra opens in general with a themes called ______ (refrain).
Ritornello form, ritornello
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Then this musical theme alternates with sections of the concertino in this way
```
Tutti (ritornello)
Solo
Tutti
Solo
Tutti
Solo
```
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Ritornello form means the little thing that returns. It is a returning/opening theme and starts as tutti
True
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Concerto gross is similar to concerto except with the number of ______.
Soloists
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Fugue is a type of ________ composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as _____, irrespective of whether the work is vocal or instrumental.
Polyphonic, "voices"
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_________ has described what is commonly regarded as the most fully developed procedure of imitative counterpoint.
Fugue
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A ______ opens with one main theme, the ________, which then sounds successively in each voice in imitation; when each voice has entered, the _______ is complete; usually this is followed by a connecting passage, or ______, developed from previously heard material; further "entries" of the subject then are heard in related keys.
Fugue, the subject, exposition, episode
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Episodes and entries are usually alternates until the "final entry" of the subject, by which point the music has returned the opening key, or tonic, which is often follows by closing material, the coda.
Subject, countersubject, exposition, episode
Fugue
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Fugue has _________
Layered harmonies
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In opera, if the range is high,
Soprano and tenor
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In opera, if the range is medium,
Mezzo- soprano, baritone
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In opera, if the range is low
Contralto, basses
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If range is high, soprano or tenor, the character is
Decent, hero, the good girl or guy
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In opera, if range is medium, mezzo-soprano or baritone, the character is
Servant or low class
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In opera, if range is low, contralto or bass, the character is
Old or bad
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Opera signifies drama that is sung to an orchestral accompaniment.
True
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The structure of the opera is
Series of songs alternating with dialogues.
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The songs in the opera received a special name depending on the number of singers participating as follows:
```
1 singer = aria
2 singers = duet
3 singers = trio
4 singers = quartet
Many singers = chorus
```
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The dialogues were not exactly dialogues but rather something in between singing and speaking. They were called _______.
Recitatives
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The structure of the opera was an overture followed by an alternation of arias, duets, trios, choruses, and recitatives as follows:
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Overture
Aria
Recitative
Duet
Recitative
Aria
Recitative
Trio
Recitative
Etc.....
```
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The text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, oratorio, cantata, musical, and ballet.
Libretto
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The instrumental introduction to a dramatic, choral, or occasionally instrumental composition. In modern opera the _______ is general nothing more definite than that portion of the music that takes place before the curtain rises.
Overture
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Any expressive melody performed by a singer, usually with orchestral accompaniment. Most common context is opera although there are many that form movements of oratorios and cantatas.
Aria
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A style of delivery in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech. Used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas.
Recitative
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Aria for 2 singers
Duet
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Aria for three singers
Trio
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Aria for a choir
Chorus
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______ is a large musical composition for orchestra, vocal soloists and chorus. It differs from an opera in that it does not have scenery, costumes, or acting. ______ closely mirrors opera in all ages in musical style and form, except that choruses are more prominent in _______ than in opera. The peak period was around 17-18 centuries.
Oratorio, oratorio
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Most oratorios from the common practice period to the present day have biblical themes. The theme of an oratorio is meant to be weighty, and can include such topics as the creation of the world, the life of Jesus, or the career of a classical hero or biblical prophet.
True
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Oratorios usually contain
An overture, for instruments alone
Various arias, sung by vocal soloists
Recitative, usually employed to advance the plot
Choruses, if then monumental and meant to convey a sense of glory. Frequently the instruments for oratorios include timpani and trumpets
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Handel's Messiah is a popular
Oratorio
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In opera, oratorio, and cantata there are all
Overtures, arias, recitatives, duets, choruses, the language is vernacular
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Opera is the only one with staging and costumes
True
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Cantata is the only one with a choral
True
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Opera's libretto is
Historic, mythological
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Oratorio's libretto is
Biblical
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Cantata's libretto is
Biblical
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Opera is performed at a
Theater
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Oratorio is performed at a
Church but not for the service
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Cantata is performed at the
Protestant church for and during service
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Protestant choral vs Catholic Church mass
Mass was mellismatic, long phrases, Latin, polyphonic.
Choral was syllabic, short phrases, vernacular, homophonic
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Cantata is a vocal composition with instrumental accompaniment typically in several movements often involving a choir.
True
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Cantata was the response of the Protestantism to the type of music performed in the Catholic Church.
The main part of the cantata is that it was performed as part of the Protestant religious liturgy
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_______ (to sound) means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (to sing). The term evolved through history of music, designating a variety of forms. In the baroque era, this term applied to a variety of works, including for solo instrument such as keyboard or violin and for a SMALL group of instruments.
Sonata
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Sonata = small group
True
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A ______ is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces.
Suite
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In the baroque era, the suite was more precisely defined with the pieces unified by key and consisting of danced usually preceded by a prelude or overture.
True
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The suite often consisted of allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue, in that order. Many later suites included other movements placed between sarabande and gigue. Common examples are the minuet, gavotte, passepied, and bourree.
True
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The suite during baroque was not meant to be danced
True
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Suite is usually just _____ musician playing.
One
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Suite has no vocals
True
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The organ was one of the most important instruments in the Baroque
True
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Baroque dates between
1600-1750
Rome, Italy
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________ is where the monarch as absolute power over the people. 1550-1800?
True
