The Baroque Era questions & answers graded A+ 2023/2024

The Baroque EraAs musical instruments developed technically, the level of virtuosity rose in the Baroque. T/F? - correct answer True Baroque composers often employed which of the following techniques in an attempt to create musical drama? - correct answer Dissonance and dynamic contrasts 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 most notable Baroque innovation was the development of "drama through music," which we now call... - correct answer Opera 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 An opera is a large-scale ______ that is ______ - correct answer Drama, sung Overture - correct answer an orchestral introduction Aria - correct answer a song, usually of a highly emotional nature Libretto - correct answer The text or script of an opera Recitative - correct answer a kind of musical declamation or speech The purely instrumental sections that the orchestra performs in an opera are called: - correct answer The overture and sinfonia Lutheran musical worship is structured around ______ hymns known as ______, which are specific to a particular service. - correct answer congregational, chorales Singing a specific ______ together with the congregation was a critical part of weekly Lutheran religious services. - correct answer chorale For which church did Bach write his cantatas? - correct answer The Lutheran Which statements are true of a Baroque oratorio? - correct answer It was generally based on a biblical story and it featured arias, recitatives, ensemble numbers, choruses, and narration 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 In eighteenth-century New England, a new type of notation called ______________ evolved to help improve solfège instruction. - correct answer shape-note notation The system in which syllables are used to memorize intervals between notes in a standard scale pattern is called: - correct answer solfège What genres is a group of dance movements, usually in the same key? - correct answer a suite Some of the ______ in the Baroque suite were of ______ origin, bringing a bit of earthiness to the more ______ surroundings. - correct answer dances, peasant,formal Baroque trumpets were still "natural," meaning that they: - correct answer had no valves What dances were standard of a Baroque suite? - correct answer courante, allemande, sarabande, and gavotte One of the most important ______ genres in the Baroque era was the ______, which was a group of ______ dances. - correct answer instrumental, suite, short