Baroque Era Test

Which is a true statement regarding the music of J. S. Bach?

Bach achieved unrivalled mastery of contrapuntal composition.

In times such as the Baroque era, when women had few choices in their lives, what was the only honorable alternative to marriage?

entering a convent

While serving as the abbess and prioress at St. Radegunda, ________ created sacred polyphonic music for the nuns to sing despite an attempt to ban the practice by religious authorities.

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

Many women composers in the Baroque era felt a particularly strong affinity with which biblical character?

the Virgin Mary

Barbara Strozzi published more arias than any male singer-composer of her time.

True

The most important new genre of the Baroque era was

opera.

Which is NOT true of the Baroque oratorio?

It used scenery, acting, and costumes, just like opera.

The Baroque oratorio evolved out of events that took place during the Counter-Reformation.

True

Guarneri, Stradivarius, and Amati were all noted Baroque makers of which instrument?

violin

During the Baroque era, the strings on stringed instruments were made of

gut.

In Baroque instrumental music, ________ were used to suggest pastoral scenes.

woodwind instruments

Which of the following is NOT a standard dance in a Baroque suite?

tango

What is sometimes found at the beginning of a Baroque suite

overture

During the Baroque era, instrumental music rose to a position equal with vocal music, eventually becoming the central feature of Western concert music in the following century.

True

In recent years, Baroque performing ensembles have sought to perform Baroque music authentically on Baroque-style instruments.

True

The concerto

was a new instrumental genre of the Baroque era.

The Baroque genre that is characterized by one or more solo instruments and orchestra is

the concerto.

The Baroque concerto was first developed in

Italy.

Which composer established ritornello form as a basic procedure in the Baroque era concerto?

Antonio Vivaldi

Who were the students at the Conservatorio dell’Ospedale della Pietà in Baroque Venice?

young orphaned girls

Which Baroque composer was known as “the red priest”?

Antonio Vivaldi

Which were important keyboard instruments in the Baroque era?

harpsichord and organ

Which is a true statement about the organ

Organs have multiple keyboards including a pedalboard for the feet.

The principal components of opera include arias, recitatives, overtures, and

choruses.

Which is NOT a true statement about Baroque opera?

Baroque opera aims to depict events realistically.

The text of an opera is known as a

libretto.

Which is NOT true of an overture?

It is generally played as an introduction and again between scenes.

Between scenes of an opera, the orchestra may play

sinfonias.

Who of the following was an early composer of Italian opera recognized for his successful works in the new genre?

Monteverdi

At the time Monteverdi wrote the opera The Coronation of Poppea, what type of opera houses were were opening in Venice?

public

The _______ was an English entertainment that combined music and poetry.

masque

Where was Purcell employed when he wrote Dido and Aeneas?

He was a music teacher at a girls’ boarding school.

The libretto for Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas, is based on

Virgil’s Aeneid.

Bach composed in all genres except

opera.

Early oratorios

All possible answers.

How is the oratorio similar to opera?

They both feature arias, recitatives, and choruses.

Handel’s oratorios combined elements of all of the following except

German opera.

Which genre is Handel said to have invented?

English oratorio

Why did Handel create the English oratorio?

As an entrepreneurial venture because opera had become too costly to produce.

The Royal Academy of Music was founded for the purpose of producing Italian opera.

True

Handel composed in all genres except opera.

False

The Collegium Musicum consisted of

forty to fifty university students and professional musicians.

Which of the following describes the chorale?

 

All answers are correct.

One of Bach’s most important keyboard works is a set of forty-eight preludes and fugues in two volumes called

The Well-Tempered Clavier.

Which of the following characterizes shape-note notation?

All answers are correct.

Which of the following describes the career of William Billings?

He knew several leaders of the American Revolution.

Which of the following were musical developments in seventeenth-century America?

All answers are correct.

The mixed-language and mixed-imagery devotional songs written by Gaspar Fernandes are called villancicos.

True

The opening section of a fugue, in which all voices successively present the subject, is called the

exposition.

Which of the following are contrapuntal devices that alter the original subject of a fugue?

All answers are correct.