Baroque Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Music of the Baroque Era - Ch. 13 According to Monteverdi, what musical style represents the first practice? - correct answer Polyphony codified by Gioseffo Zarlino According to proponents of the second practice, why could compositional rules be broken? - correct answer for text expression Before it was applied to an artistic period, what was the meaning of the term "baroque"? - correct answer abnormal, bizarre, or in bad taste For what reason did Giovanni Maria Artusi criticize Mont...

Baroque EraBaroque - correct answer Began as a term of "disapproval" -Jewelers used this term to describe oddly colored or misshapen pearls -Today it is no longer a negative term Life in the Baroque Era - correct answer -Was a period of absolute monarchs -The political instability and wars that had dominated Europe for so many years gave way to a period of international peace and economic expansion -Many political repressions, punitive taxation. and gross social inequities, but there ...

Baroque Art The Loves of the Gods - correct answer Carracci -located in Farnese Palace -hired by Cardinal Farnese -scenes of love from Ovid, Metamorphoses Carracci - correct answer -Brothers, studio on Bologna -Tried to create drama of immeasurable heaven -inspired ceiling frescos -used Di sotto in su -used Quadratura created The Loves of the Gods, Farnese Palace define:Quadro riportato - correct answer wall mural on a curved ceiling *viewer must stand in a particular spot for...

Baroque art - characteristics, artworkWhat are the characteristics of Baroque art? - correct answer - realism - depict true or biblical events - dramatic - naturalistic what was the purpose of Baroque artwork - correct answer propaganda from the Roman Catholic Church, proclaim supremacy of the Catholic faith, and incite Protestants to return to the fold what movement is rooted in Baroque art - correct answer Counter Reformation Name the Baroque artists - correct answer - Caravaggio ...

Baroque Period Questions and Answers Already Passed Characteristics of Baroque bizarre, flamboyant, ornamented, extreme emotion Baroque AKA ____________ "Age of Absolutism" 2 major composers Handel and Back Other well known composers Monteverdi, Purcell, Corelli, Vivaldi Early baroque favored... homophonic texture over poly Late baroque ... polyphonic returned Characteristics of Baroque Usually expresses ONE MOOD, unless vocals are involved Affections moods (joy, grief, agitation) Baro...

Baroque The Ornate AgeOverview of Baroque Period - correct answer Baroque art () succeeded in marrying the advanced techniques and grand scale of the Renaissance to the emotion, intensity, drama and drama of Mannerism, thus making the Baroque era the most sumptuous and ornate in the history of art. While the term "baroque" is often used negatively to mean over-wrought and ostentatious, the seventeenth century not only produced such exceptional artistic geniuses as Rembrandt and Velazquez but e...

Baroque Definition - correct answer a jeweler's term for large pearls of irregular shape. Baroque Period - correct answer Time period: "Early" Baroque c. 1600 - 170 Baroque Rhythm - correct answer Single or similar rhythm often heard throughout piece or major segment of piece Baroque Meter - correct answer Emphasized •strong & weak beats played in clear & concise manner -Systematized •bar lines regularly used; strong beat at bar lines Baroque Texture - correct answer Both ...

BaroqueSelect the three countries whose cultures most influenced Bach's musical style. - correct answer Italy Germany France Select all that apply Select the three principal ways of varying the subject of a fugue. - correct answer Presenting the subject in diminution Presenting the subject in inversion Presenting the subject retrograde Select all that apply Select all the responsibilities of the music director of a church. - correct answer Training choristers for their performan...

ITALIAN BAROQUEBY THE END OF THE 17th CENTURY: baroque - correct answer BY THE END OF THE ____ CENTURY: -Some say it is derived from a Portuguese word to describe asymmetrical or irregularly shaped pearls. IN THE 18TH CENTURY: Baroque - correct answer it implies excessive freedom and a departure from classical rules of order, simplicity, clarity, symmetry. Common to all these derivations or meanings is the implication that Baroque means imbalance and excessive complication. BY LATE 19TH ...

BaroqueEurope in the 17th Century - correct answer Goals - correct answer -Understand the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on art and architecture in 17th century Italy and Spain -Recall hallmark formal devices used by Baroque artists and architects -Identify representative Baroque artists and their works -Identify representative Baroque architects and their works -Recognize and cite artistic terminology from this period Baroque Art - correct answer - Recognize the distinctive ...