NEMCC music appreciation midterm questions
with verified answers
A lengthy sacred (religious) music work for voices and orchestra is:
Ans✓✓✓oratorio
A multi-movement work contrasting a small instrumental group with an
orchestra is called a: Ans✓✓✓concerto grosso
A new philosophical outlook during the Renaissance was
Ans✓✓✓humanism
A solo song in opera that features virtuosic singing is called:
Ans✓✓✓aria
A style of singing found in opera that covers the text expressively and is
speech-like is called: Ans✓✓✓recitative
Allegro Ans✓✓✓moderately fast, cheerful
Andante Ans✓✓✓walking tempo
beat Ans✓✓✓regular pulse of music
chant Ans✓✓✓primary music of the early church
, Claudio Monteverdi, a major composer of the early Baroque Period,
composed what is considered the first opera masterpiece,
____________________, in 1607. Ans✓✓✓Orfeo
Dynamics Ans✓✓✓The loudness or softness of music.
Even though operas premiered in various countries by composers of
multiple nationalities, the popular language for opera was
_____________ for almost two hundred years. Ans✓✓✓italian
Forte (f) Ans✓✓✓loud
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) wrote the most famous oratorio of
all time, ___________________. Ans✓✓✓Messiah
Gregory 1 Ans✓✓✓A leader in the organization of the early church's
music and liturgy
Homophonic Ans✓✓✓music that features a melody with harmonic
accompaniment
In 1725, Antonio Vivaldi, also known as "The Red Priest," published his
most famous set of concertos called: Ans✓✓✓The Four Seaons
with verified answers
A lengthy sacred (religious) music work for voices and orchestra is:
Ans✓✓✓oratorio
A multi-movement work contrasting a small instrumental group with an
orchestra is called a: Ans✓✓✓concerto grosso
A new philosophical outlook during the Renaissance was
Ans✓✓✓humanism
A solo song in opera that features virtuosic singing is called:
Ans✓✓✓aria
A style of singing found in opera that covers the text expressively and is
speech-like is called: Ans✓✓✓recitative
Allegro Ans✓✓✓moderately fast, cheerful
Andante Ans✓✓✓walking tempo
beat Ans✓✓✓regular pulse of music
chant Ans✓✓✓primary music of the early church
, Claudio Monteverdi, a major composer of the early Baroque Period,
composed what is considered the first opera masterpiece,
____________________, in 1607. Ans✓✓✓Orfeo
Dynamics Ans✓✓✓The loudness or softness of music.
Even though operas premiered in various countries by composers of
multiple nationalities, the popular language for opera was
_____________ for almost two hundred years. Ans✓✓✓italian
Forte (f) Ans✓✓✓loud
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) wrote the most famous oratorio of
all time, ___________________. Ans✓✓✓Messiah
Gregory 1 Ans✓✓✓A leader in the organization of the early church's
music and liturgy
Homophonic Ans✓✓✓music that features a melody with harmonic
accompaniment
In 1725, Antonio Vivaldi, also known as "The Red Priest," published his
most famous set of concertos called: Ans✓✓✓The Four Seaons
