Music of the Baroque Era - Ch. 13 questions with correct answers graded A+ 2023/2024

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 Monteverdi's Cruda Amarilli? - correct answer unprepared dissonances How did Baroque musicians view musical scores? - correct answer as a framework for performance How did basso continuo engender (cause or give rise to a feeling, situation, or condition) a shift in thinking about dissonance? - correct answer It encouraged consideration of consonance and dissonance within chords, rather than as individual sets of intervals In Baroque music, what is an elaborate passage that decorates an important cadence? - correct answer cadenza In basso continuo - correct answer *a melody (or melodies) and bass line are notated, the remaining music is to be filled in harmonically is left for improvisation In seventeenth-century Europe, where did musicians stand to earn the best living? - correct answer Italy In the seventeenth century, the modal system declined and was eventually replaced by - correct answer tonality In the seventeenth century, what were the affections? - correct answer emotional states of the soul What did composers think was the healthiest way to use the affections? - correct answer They believed that a range of affections could bring people into better balance. What is one fundamental part of our musical life that originated in the seventeenth century? - correct answer public concerts What is one of the most important themes in seventeenth-century artistic output? - correct answer theatricality What is the term for the performance of a figured bass line? - correct answer realization What was the prevailing texture of seventeenth-century music? - correct answer melody and accompaniment dominated by treble and bass lines When did art historians first use the term "Baroque" to refer to artistic movements between 1600 and 1750? - correct answer the nineteenth century Which of the following was a common continuo instrument? - correct answer theorbo Which of the following writers was active during the seventeenth century? - correct answer William Shakespeare Who was among the proponents of the second practice? - correct answer Claudio Monteverdi Who wrote the treatise The Passions of the Soul, cataloguing the affections? - correct answer René Descartes How did Baroque artists, poets, and musicians evoke theatricality in their works?. - correct answer by using contrasts and motion to arouse feelings