Test - Baroque - Sept 30, 2023 with answers

Question 1

1.
Name the composer for the following statement.

This composer was a great master of the contrapuntal arts.

Answer 1

JS Bach

Question 2

2.
Name the composer for the following statement.

This composer’s works have a sense of pageantry and dramatic theatrical style through grandiose gestures.

Answer 2

Handel

Question 3

3.
Answer the following questions of the audio clip:

Title of the entire work
Composer
Genre of the entire work
What is the poetic image
Give the musical depiction: (description of the music)

Answer 3

Title of the entire work - Four Seasons
Composer: Vivaldi
Genre of the entire work - violin concerto
What is the poetic image: sleeping goatherd, leaves moving, barking dog
Give the musical depiction: (description of the music)
- barking dog in viola ostinato

Question 4

4.
Answer the questions of the audio clip:

Title of the entire work
Title of this movement
Composer
Genre of the entire work
Genre of this movement
What is the texture demonstrated in the audio clip

Answer 4

Title of the entire work - Messiah
Title of this movement - Hallelujah
Composer - Handel
Genre of the entire work - oratorio
Genre of this movement: chorus
What is the texture demonstrated in the audio clip: homorhythmic

Question 5

5.
Answer the following questions of the audio clip:

Title of the entire work
Composer
Genre of the this movement
Texture(s) of this movement

Answer 5

Title of the entire work: Prelude in Prelude & Fugue in B Flat major
Composer: Bach
Genre of the this movement: Prelude/keyboard
Texture(s) of this movement: homophonic & polyphonic

Question 6

6.
Answer the questions of the audio clip:

Title of the entire work
Title of this movement
Composer
Genre of the entire work
Genre of this movement
What is the predominant rhythm

Answer 6

Title of the entire work: Messiah
Title of this movement; Overture
Composer: Handel
Genre of the entire work: oratorio
Genre of this movement: French Overture
What is the predominant rhythm: dotted rhythm

Question 7

7. Answer the following questions of the audio clip:

Title of the entire work
Title of this movement
Composer
Genre of the entire work
Genre of this movement
Give one word painting

Answer 7

Title of the entire work: Messiah
Title of this movement : Rejoice Greatly
Composer: Handel
Genre of the entire work: oratorio
Genre of this movement: aria (soprano)
Give one word painting: melisma on re-joice to express joy

Question 8

8.
Name the composer for the following statement.

This composer’s works often have alternation of homorhythymic (homophonic) with contrapuntal textures (polyphonic).

Answer 8

Handel

Question 9

9.
Name the composer for the following statement.

This composer developed idiomatic writing for strings and contributed to the development of the three-movement concerto structure.

Answer 9

Vivaldi

Question 10

10.
Name the composer for the following statements.

This composer composed works in virtually every genre except opera. His personal faith was a source of inspiration for his works.

Answer 10

JS Bach

Question 11

11.
Answer the following questions of the audio clip:

Title of the entire work
Composer
Genre of the entire work
What is the poetic image
Give the musical depiction: (description of the music)

Answer 11

Title of the entire work: Four Seaons
Composer: Vivaldi
Genre of the entire work: violin concerto
What is the poetic image: spring
Give the musical depiction: (description of the music):
sounds happy/joyful

Question 12

12.
Answer the following questions of the audio clip:

Title of the entire work
Composer
Genre of the this movement
Texture(s) of this movement
How many voices are in this piece?
What kind of answer?

Answer 12

Title of the entire work - Fugue in B flat major (from book I of Well Tempered Clavier)
Composer: Bach
Genre of the this movement; Fugue
Texture(s) of this movement: polyphonic
How many voices are in this piece? 3
What kind of answer? tonal