Mus Ch 5 questions and answers graded A+ 2023/2024

Mus Ch 5Age of Absolutism - correct answer () Monarchs believed that God chose them to rule. Harmonic minor - correct answer raises the seventh tone one half step occur between the sixth and seventh tone. Most common minor scale in Baroque period. Melodic minor - correct answer more closely related to major. Ascending the half steps are between the second and third tones and the seventh and eighth tones. Cadences - correct answer Provided logical resting points in the music and gave a feeling of order to the musical phrases and larger forms. Baroque actually meant - correct answer grotesque, in bad taste, or of irregular and disproportionate shape. Which composer was well traveled and famous? - correct answer George Frideric Handel A(n) -- is a solo section of an opera, and had orchestral accompaniment and strict rhythm. - correct answer Aria A large scale sacred vocal work, which also uses arias, recitatives and choruses is called - correct answer Oratorio A(n) -- is a solo section of an opera, and had very little if any accompaniment, no strict rhythm, and was half-singing, half-talking. - correct answer Recitative Recitative - correct answer section of an opera during which dialogue is sung with the timing and inflections of regular speech. Little if any instrumental accompaniment and no strict rhythm during a recitative. Aria - correct answer song performed as a vocal solo with the accompaniment of an instrumental ensemble. Regular meter and fuller instrumental accompaniment. Arias w/ 2+ singers are called duets, ensembles, or choruses.. Overture - correct answer performed in order to get the audience and the cast ready to perform and create the proper mood. Thematic ideas from the entire opera were included in the overture. cantata - correct answer A composition in several movements for solo voice(s), instruments, and perhaps also chorus. Depending on the text, cantatas are categorized as secular or church cantatas oratorio - correct answer a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text virtuoso - correct answer (n.) a brilliant performer; a person with masterly skill or technique; (adj.) masterly or brilliant basso continuo - correct answer A Baroque music ensemble containing one chordal instrument and one bass melody instrument prelude - correct answer (n.) an introduction; that which comes before or leads off fugue - correct answer a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement subject - correct answer presented as a single melodic line, which in turn is replayed in many other lines. counterpoint - correct answer involves the skill of harmonizing note against note, while maintaining the integrity of each melodic line. passacaglia - correct answer is a unique form of theme and variations, a repeated bass line, called a ground bass, is the central theme.