Mus 121 Exam 3 Questions with CORRECT Answers
(Grade A+)
Question 1:
1600-1750
Answer:
Years of the Baroque Period:
Question 2:
Concerto grosso Baroque concerto type based on the opposition between a small group of solo
Answer:
instruments (the concertino) and orchestra (the ripieno).
Question 3:
Ritornello
Answer:
Short, recurring instrumental passage found in both the aria and the Baroque concerto
Question 4:
Tutti
Answer:
an Italian word literally meaning all or together and is used as a musical term, for the whole orchestra
as opposed to the solois
Question 5:
Fugue
Answer:
Polyphonic form popular in the Baroque era in which one or more themes are developed by imitative
counterpoint. -literally means "fight or escape"
, Question 6:
Inversion
Answer:
term that applies to chords, intervals, melodies, and 12-note-rows o Chords - chord construction was
not simply a matter of particular intervals arranged in ascending order, but of particular intervals placed
above a governing or fundamental bass o Intervals - applied to intervals by reversing the positions of
two notes o Melodies - inverted melodies follow the shape of the original mirror image (when the
original melody rises, the _______ descends) o 12-note-rows - inversion of a row or series of notes is
fundamental to twelve note or serial music; literal ________
Question 7:
Retrograde
Answer:
the backward-read version of a melody
Question 8:
Augmentation
Answer:
a compositional procedure in which the note values of a musical statement are lengthened (usually
doubled) as the climatic presentation of certain fugue subjects
Question 9:
Diminution
Answer:
a melodic device, often found in fugal compositions, in which time-values of the melody notes are
proportionally shortened
Question 10:
Trio sonata
Answer:
Baroque composition that has three melodic lines: two high ones, each played by one instrument; and a
basso continuo, played by two instruments.
(Grade A+)
Question 1:
1600-1750
Answer:
Years of the Baroque Period:
Question 2:
Concerto grosso Baroque concerto type based on the opposition between a small group of solo
Answer:
instruments (the concertino) and orchestra (the ripieno).
Question 3:
Ritornello
Answer:
Short, recurring instrumental passage found in both the aria and the Baroque concerto
Question 4:
Tutti
Answer:
an Italian word literally meaning all or together and is used as a musical term, for the whole orchestra
as opposed to the solois
Question 5:
Fugue
Answer:
Polyphonic form popular in the Baroque era in which one or more themes are developed by imitative
counterpoint. -literally means "fight or escape"
, Question 6:
Inversion
Answer:
term that applies to chords, intervals, melodies, and 12-note-rows o Chords - chord construction was
not simply a matter of particular intervals arranged in ascending order, but of particular intervals placed
above a governing or fundamental bass o Intervals - applied to intervals by reversing the positions of
two notes o Melodies - inverted melodies follow the shape of the original mirror image (when the
original melody rises, the _______ descends) o 12-note-rows - inversion of a row or series of notes is
fundamental to twelve note or serial music; literal ________
Question 7:
Retrograde
Answer:
the backward-read version of a melody
Question 8:
Augmentation
Answer:
a compositional procedure in which the note values of a musical statement are lengthened (usually
doubled) as the climatic presentation of certain fugue subjects
Question 9:
Diminution
Answer:
a melodic device, often found in fugal compositions, in which time-values of the melody notes are
proportionally shortened
Question 10:
Trio sonata
Answer:
Baroque composition that has three melodic lines: two high ones, each played by one instrument; and a
basso continuo, played by two instruments.
