MUSI 1306 EVALUATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔A very short unstaged opera is called a(n)
opera buffa.
grand opera.
cantata.
cantabile. - ✔✔cantata
✔✔In a concerto, drama and contrast are created as solo and ripieno carry on an
instrumental
competition.
round.
dialogue.
argument. - ✔✔dialogue
✔✔Without the basso continuo, Baroque music would
have a less powerful bass line.
be easier to play.
have a more powerful bass line.
be louder. - ✔✔have a less powerful bass line
✔✔The Baroque era was a period of absolute monarchs. Which monarch raised the
power of the king to unparalleled heights?
Louis XIV
Leopold II
John Dunstable
Guillaume DuFay - ✔✔Louis XIV
,✔✔During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a radical change took place in
philosophical and scientific thinking. Who was the foremost scientist of the age?
Isaac Newton
Thomas Weelkes
Thomas Morley
Josquin Desprez - ✔✔Isaac Newton
✔✔How did Baroque music mimic Baroque art?
Baroque composers were inspired by the artistic model set by Louis XIV.
They created contrast and illusion through the use of dynamics and contrasting
performing groups.
Baroque composers applied Newton's scientific laws to their music.
Baroque composers, like Baroque artists, were inspired by art of the Middle Ages. -
✔✔They created contrast and illusion through the use of dynamics and contrasting
performing groups.
✔✔Contrast can be heard in a concerto
in the changes in tempo.
between male and female singers.
within the woodwind section.
between the entire orchestra and a small group of instruments or a single instrument. -
✔✔between the entire orchestra and a small group of instruments or a single
instrument.
✔✔Why was the Baroque era an important period of transition in terms of audiences?
A wider concert-going public emerged.
Concerts were held in churches, which made them only accessible to the nobility.
Aristocratic courts routinely held public concerts, which anyone could attend.
, Only small, elite, aristocratic audiences attended concerts. - ✔✔A wider concert-going
public emerged.
✔✔Opera based on some story from ancient history and involved dramatic situations,
two pairs of lovers, and a prince or king who resolves the situation in the end is known
as
opera buffa.
opera seria.
da capo opera.
camera di chiesa. - ✔✔opera seria
✔✔Between appearances of the ritornello in a Baroque concerto, the solo instrument
plays passages of contrasting material, which are known as
solos.
sonatas.
episodes.
movements. - ✔✔episodes
✔✔Why might a fugue be called "strict"?
It is a carefully worked out polyphonic composition that uses a theme (or "subject") that
occurs in all the voices.
It always has an ABA form.
It is a rambling, improvisatory piece.
It has one voice. - ✔✔It is a carefully worked out polyphonic composition that uses a
theme (or "subject") that occurs in all the voices.
✔✔Bach's two Passions are based on
stories from the Old Testament.
the Catholic Mass.
the Gospels of St. John and St. Matthew.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔A very short unstaged opera is called a(n)
opera buffa.
grand opera.
cantata.
cantabile. - ✔✔cantata
✔✔In a concerto, drama and contrast are created as solo and ripieno carry on an
instrumental
competition.
round.
dialogue.
argument. - ✔✔dialogue
✔✔Without the basso continuo, Baroque music would
have a less powerful bass line.
be easier to play.
have a more powerful bass line.
be louder. - ✔✔have a less powerful bass line
✔✔The Baroque era was a period of absolute monarchs. Which monarch raised the
power of the king to unparalleled heights?
Louis XIV
Leopold II
John Dunstable
Guillaume DuFay - ✔✔Louis XIV
,✔✔During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a radical change took place in
philosophical and scientific thinking. Who was the foremost scientist of the age?
Isaac Newton
Thomas Weelkes
Thomas Morley
Josquin Desprez - ✔✔Isaac Newton
✔✔How did Baroque music mimic Baroque art?
Baroque composers were inspired by the artistic model set by Louis XIV.
They created contrast and illusion through the use of dynamics and contrasting
performing groups.
Baroque composers applied Newton's scientific laws to their music.
Baroque composers, like Baroque artists, were inspired by art of the Middle Ages. -
✔✔They created contrast and illusion through the use of dynamics and contrasting
performing groups.
✔✔Contrast can be heard in a concerto
in the changes in tempo.
between male and female singers.
within the woodwind section.
between the entire orchestra and a small group of instruments or a single instrument. -
✔✔between the entire orchestra and a small group of instruments or a single
instrument.
✔✔Why was the Baroque era an important period of transition in terms of audiences?
A wider concert-going public emerged.
Concerts were held in churches, which made them only accessible to the nobility.
Aristocratic courts routinely held public concerts, which anyone could attend.
, Only small, elite, aristocratic audiences attended concerts. - ✔✔A wider concert-going
public emerged.
✔✔Opera based on some story from ancient history and involved dramatic situations,
two pairs of lovers, and a prince or king who resolves the situation in the end is known
as
opera buffa.
opera seria.
da capo opera.
camera di chiesa. - ✔✔opera seria
✔✔Between appearances of the ritornello in a Baroque concerto, the solo instrument
plays passages of contrasting material, which are known as
solos.
sonatas.
episodes.
movements. - ✔✔episodes
✔✔Why might a fugue be called "strict"?
It is a carefully worked out polyphonic composition that uses a theme (or "subject") that
occurs in all the voices.
It always has an ABA form.
It is a rambling, improvisatory piece.
It has one voice. - ✔✔It is a carefully worked out polyphonic composition that uses a
theme (or "subject") that occurs in all the voices.
✔✔Bach's two Passions are based on
stories from the Old Testament.
the Catholic Mass.
the Gospels of St. John and St. Matthew.
