Musical Appreciation

The word baroque has a various times meant all of the following except

naturalistic

Baroque style flourished in music during the period.

1600 - 1750

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and

Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ___ of his day

Organist

Claudio Monetverdi, an early baroque composer, strove to create music that was ____

Passionate and dramatic

A baroque musical composition usually expresses ____ within the same movement

One basic mood

Terraced Dynamics refers to ____

The sudden alternation from dynamic level to another

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the ____

Harpsichord

In the baroque period, the ordinary citizen’s opportunities for hearing music usually came from the ____

Church

A concert grosso most often has ______ movements

Three (3)

The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the ____

Tutti

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in form

Ritornello

The main theme of a fugue is called the ____

Subject

_______ is a musical procedure in which a fugue subject is imitated before it is completed

Stretto

A ______ ia a single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while the other voices produces a series of changing harmonies against it

Pedal Point

An ____ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action

opera

The text, or book, of a musical dramatic work is called _____

Libretto

The _____ is the person who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians, and controls the balance among instruments and voices

Conductor

The earliest opera that has preserved is Jacopo Peri’s

Euridice

Embellishments are ____

Ornamental tones not printed in the music that seventeenth — and eighteenth - century performers were told to add to the melody

Baroque trio sonatas usually involve ______ performers

Four

Antonio Vivaldi was famous and influential as a virtuoso _____

Violinest

Bach was recognized as the most eminent _____ of his day

Organist

Improvisation is ______

Music created at the same time as it is performed

Sets of dance — inspired movements are called ____

Suites

A _____ is a hymn tune for congregational use

Chorale

A large — scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text, is called ___

Oratorio

George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is an example of ______

the Old Testament

Castri is what

All of the above