MT 1

Question 1

Basso Continuo

Answer 1

The practice of creating an accompaniment from a bass part by playing the bass notes and improvising harmonies above them. The harmonies were derived from a set of figures that specified intervals above the given bass note.

Question 2

Opera

Answer 2

A drama with continuous or nearly continuous music, staged with scenery, costumes, and action

Question 3

Monody

Answer 3

A solo vocal style having a single melodic line and instrumental accompaniment

Question 4

Recitative

Answer 4

A style of text setting that imitates and emphasizes the natural inflections, rhythms, and syntax of speech

Question 5

Aria

Answer 5

A section an Italian strophic poem for a solo singer

Question 6

Libretto (little book)

Answer 6

the literary text of an opera

Question 7

Chamber music

Answer 7

small ensemble music with one player per part

Question 8

Oratorio

Answer 8

An extended setting of a text on a religious topic for soloists, chorus, and orchestra

Question 9

Doctrine of affections

Answer 9

Notion that music has power to arouse specific emotions from listener

Question 10

Passion

Answer 10

an extended oratorio-like setting of the story of the crucifixtion

Question 11

Cantata

Answer 11

a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and swung to an instrumental accompaniment

Question 12

Toccata

Answer 12

A composition in the style of an improvisation, for the piano, organ, or other keyboard instrument, intended to exhibit the player’s technique

Question 13

Ricercare

Answer 13

A composition with one or more themes in contrapuntal imitation (precursor to fugue)

Question 14

Fantasia

Answer 14

A composition with a free form, often in improvisatory style

Question 15

Canzone

Answer 15

an instrumental work in several contrasting sections, usually beginning with imitative counterpoint

Question 16

Sonata

Answer 16

an instrumental composition for solo or small ensemble

Question 17

Variations

Answer 17

a form in which a theme is varied contrapuntally, melodically, or harmonically

Question 18

Dance Suite

Answer 18

a group of movements in which each is based on the meter and rhythms of a dance type

Question 19

Ode

Answer 19

a festive musical setting, usually in free form, that customarily includes sections of chorus, soloists, and orchestra

Question 20

Villancico

Answer 20

Spanish vernacular form that featured on or more choirs, often accompanied by continuo. Originally secular but became sacred in 17th century

Question 21

Zarzuela

Answer 21

light operatic setting, usually based on mythology, which alternates between speech and song

Question 22

Concerto grosso

Answer 22

orchestral composition that contrasts small solo group with full orchestra

Question 23

Chorale cantata

Answer 23

sacred composition for voices and instruments in which the organizing principle is the words and music of a chorale