Era Quiz The Baroque Era questions and answers graded A+ 2023 passed

Era Quiz The Baroque Era Vivaldi wrote instrumental music that depicts a scene without the use of sung words, a style called -. - correct answer program music In eighteenth-century New England, a new type of notation called - notation evolved to improve solfège instruction. - correct answer shape-note Singing a specific ___________ together with the congregation was a critical part of weekly Lutheran religious services. - correct answer chorale At the time of Monteverdi's opera The Coronation of Poppea, what type of opera houses were beginning to open in Venice? - correct answer public The system in which syllables are used to memorize notes in a diatonic scale is called -. - correct answer solfege A(n) - is a large-scale - that is sung. - correct answer opera, drama Lutheran musical worship is structured around - hymns known as -, which are specific to a particular service. - correct answer congregational, chorales The seventeenth-century system in New England in which church leaders sang each line of a psalm and the congregation repeated the lines back is called -. - correct answer lining-out For which church did Bach write his cantatas? - correct answer Lutheran Which of the following genres is a group of dance movements, usually in the same key? - correct answer suite The rise of opera popularized virtuosic male soprano roles in Baroque dramas; these roles were sung by a singer known as a -. - correct answer castrato The two main keyboard instruments of the Baroque era were the organ and the __________. - correct answer harpsichord Baroque trumpets were still "natural," meaning that they -. - correct answer had no valves Baroque composers often employed which of the following techniques in an attempt to create musical drama? - correct answer - Dynamic contrasts - Dissonance As musical instruments developed technically, the level of virtuosity rose in the Baroque. - correct answer True The most notable Baroque innovation was the development of "drama through music," which we now call -. - correct answer opera Match each definition to the genre it describes. - correct answer overture - an orchestral introduction. libretto - the text / script of an opera. recitative - a kind of musical declamation or speech. aria - a song, usually of a higher emotional nature. Click on the image of a Baroque violin. - correct answer The top right instrument Match the following definition to the appropriate compositional term that it describes. (Image is present for reference purposes only.) - correct answer inversion - pitches of the subject are stated upside down. retrograde - pitches of the subject are stated backwards. diminution - subject is presented in shorter time values. augmentation - subject is presented in longer time values.