Baroque Period questions with correct solutions 2023/2024

Baroque PeriodBaroque style fills space with ___ and ___ - correct answer Action, movement Painters, sculptors, and architects became interested in forming a ___ ___ - correct answer Total illusion The ___ was enormously rich and powerful during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - correct answer Aristocracy Baroque period is known as the... because ... - correct answer Age of absolutism Rulers exercised absolute power over subjects During the Baroque period, Europe was split into ___ and ___ areas - correct answer Catholic Protestant Along with the aristocracy, ___ ___ also shaped the baroque style - correct answer Religious institutions ____ ___ led to new inventions and the gradual improvement of medicine, mining, navigation, and industry - correct answer Scientific inventions Two giants of the Baroque period - correct answer George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Baroque period can be divided into ___ phases: - correct answer 3 Early () Middle () Late () Italian composers of the early baroque created... - correct answer Opera While most of the population barely managed to survive, European rulers... - correct answer Surrounded themselves with luxury Early Baroque composers favored ____ texture while the late Baroque period favored ____ - correct answer Homophonic Polyphonic To depict emotions in the text, early Baroque composers used ____ with a new freedom - correct answer Dissonance During the Middle phase of the Baroque, ____ gradually gave way to _____ and ____ scales. There was also a new importance of ____ music. - correct answer Church modes Major Minor Instrumental During the late Baroque period, many aspects of ____ arose and ____ music became just as important as ____ music for the first time! - correct answer Harmony Instrumental Vocal Mood - correct answer Usually expresses the same mood throughout the piece- unity of mood Prime exception to the baroque principle of unity of mood - correct answer Vocal music Rhythm - correct answer Continuity of rhythm, rhythmic patterns heard throughout Melody - correct answer Feeling of continuity