An intimate vocal composition featuring a solo singer accompanied by a “basso continuo,” staged without scenery or costumes.
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Cantata
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A style of singing intended to approximate the natural inflections of speech.
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Recitative
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A staged dramatic entertainment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially popular in England?
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Masque
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Henry Purcell’s “When I Am Laid in Earth” comes from one of the first English operas to use music throughout to unify a dramatic whole. What was the name of this opera?
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Dido and Aeneas
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A Baroque instrumental composition in several dance-like movements, intended for performance in a chamber.
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Sonata da camera
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Allemande
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German dance in duple meter
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Although he was an ordained priest, Vivaldi served principally as music director of an orphanage/convent for girls in which city?
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Venice
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What term describes the initial theme of a fugue?
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The Subject
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A pitch, usually in the bass, that is sustained while other parts move more rapidly above it.
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Pedal Point
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Which of the following genres did Bach compose?: Cantata, Opera, Fugue, Concerto, Sonata
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Cantata, Fugue, Concerto, Sonata.
NOT Opera.
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A church cantata in which one or more movements use a chorale melody
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Chorale Cantata
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Which term describes Italian comic opera?
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Opera Buffa
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Did Classical composers prefer major or minor keys?
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Major
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Bartolomeo Cristofori invented this instrument around 1720, giving performers access to a wider range of dynamics than previous instruments of the same type.
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Fortepiano
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Which of the following forms features a main theme set in the tonic, known as the refrain, that alternates with contrasting sections, known as episodes, that introduce new keys and themes?
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Rondo
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Composer who perfected the String Quartet
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Haydn
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What aristocratic family employed Haydn for several years?
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Esterházy
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A German opera that featured tuneful solo numbers and spoken dialogue instead of recitative?
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Singspiel
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Which of Mozart’s pieces is considered especially rich in Masonic symbolism?
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The Magic Flute
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In honor of what famous historical figure did Beethoven originally compose his Symphony No. 3, commonly known as the Eroica or Heroic Symphony?
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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The four-note motive in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 occurs in how many movements?
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All of them—Four
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