Practice Test No. 3

THE BAROQUE PERIOD (1600-1750)                                          Answers

1.      In Opera when dramatic dialogue is half sung and half spoke it is called ______________.

2.      A Baroque instrumental piece based entirely on a systematic procedure of imitative polyphony based on a single theme is called______________.

3.      Which part of music history is applied to the period 1600 to 1750?

4.      The opening section of a fugue is called________________.

5.      The theme of a fugue is called the_______________.

6.      A passage in a fugue that doesn’t contain any complete entries of the fugue subject and occurs between restatements of the fugue subject is called_______________.

7.      Ritornello form is based on:

a.      a constant variation of a ground bass

b.      the alternation of various dance movements

c.      periodic return of a central homophonic theme

d.      persistent imitation of a single subject

8.      The medieval church modes gradually gave way to which scales in the Baroque period?

9.      The word Baroque has a various times meant all of the following except:

a.      elaborately ornamented

b.      flamboyant

c.      excessive

d.      naturalistic

10.     The two giants of Baroque composition were George Frederic Handel and_____________.

11.     A common variation type form in the Baroque based upon the use of a ground bass repeated over and over is a______________.

12.     The text, or book, on which an opera is based for its story line is called_______________.

13.     Sets of dance-inspired instrumental movements are called__________________.

14.     An opera-like composition on a religious subject is called__________________.

15.     The Baroque era witnessed the appearance of the:

a.         solo concerto

b.        concerto grosso

c.         both A and B

d.        neither A not B

16.     An important instrumental form of the Baroque, based on opposition between a small group of instruments and a larger group, was________________.

17.     Which two instruments  would most likely have played the basso continuo in the Baroque era?

18.     All of the following were important scientists of the Baroque era except:

a.         Newton

b.        Galileo

c.         Curie

d.        Kepler

19.     How many players are necessary to perform a trio sonata?

20.     Handel’s Messiah is what type of piece or genre?

21.     Which would best describes how Baroque musicians made a living?

22.     The greatest composer of fugues during the Baroque period was_________________.

23.     What is Opera Seria?

24.     A sonata is?

25.     What is the difference between an oratorio, cantata and an opera?

a.         they have no difference

b.        a cantata is instrumental

c.         two are religious and one is secular

d.        one is a religious and two are instrumental

26.     What is a cadenza and what purpose does it serve?

27.     What is the difference between recitative and aria?                   

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