FREE HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MUSIC

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FREE HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MUSIC

HISTORY EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -40 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: The dominant figure in music in seventeenth-century France was _____.

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Jean-Baptiste Lully Question 2: Giacomo Carissimi is regarded as the composer most responsible for the development of the _____.

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oratorio Question 3: The first dance movement in a seventeenth-century suite was most commonly a(n)

_____.

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allemande Question 4: For his collection of songs published in 1602 as Le nuove musiche, _____ wrote a preface that explained vocal ornamentation and the use of figured bass.

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Giulio Caccini

Question 5: _____ means a passage of rapidly overlapping imitative entries of the subject, often used to increase the climactic effect at the end of a fugue.

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stretto

Question 6: The first public opera house opened in _____ in 1637.

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Venice Question 7: The musical texture of solo voice with accompaniment by a lute or keyboard instrument is called _____.

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monody Question 8: Pietro Metastasio made his greatest contribution music as a(n) _____.

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opera librettist

Question 9: A sonata da chiesa was actually a _____.

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suite of dances

Question 10: The first opeera was composed primarily by _____.

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Jacopo Peri Question 11: As concert master at the court in Weimar, Bach became familiar with the style of

_____.

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Italian sonatas and concertos

Question 12: Handel's oratorios are structured in _____ parts or acts.

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three

Question 13: A _____ is a mood or state of mind; the six basic ones were love, hate, joy, sorrow, wonder, and desire.

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passion Question 14: In the middle of the seventeenth century the musical scholar _____ grouped the musical styles of the time into three classifications.

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Marco Scacchi Question 15: A recurring orchestral passage called _____ might be used to unify the structures of both the large-scale Italian opera aria and the concerto movement.

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ritornello Question 16: Since the beginning of the seventeenth century, the term _____ has implied any use of contrasting voices and/or instruments with separate functions.

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concertato Question 17: The intermezzo took its plots from the _____, which had been popular for a long time in Italy.

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commedia dell'arte Question 18: The leading musical entertainment at the French court in the first half of the seventeenth century was the _____.

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ballet Question 19: Handel spent most of his early twenties in _____, where he mastered the musical style of that country.

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Italy

Question 20: _____ developed a thoroughly rationalistic set of conventions for Italian opera seria around 1700.

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Apostolo Zeno Question 21: Georg Philipp Telemann worked in the city of Hamburg as a(n) _____.

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Kantor Question 22: New aesthetic principles for music were articulated in the late sixteenth century by a group of intellectuals who met in the city of _____.

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Florence

Question 23: The French opera overture had _____ main contrasting sections.

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two Question 24: When Handel gave up composing operas he turned instead to the _____.

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oratorio Question 25: Recitative supported by the entire ensemble of strings rather than only basso continuo is called _____.

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accompagnato Question 26: Keyboard composers in _____ often included in their suites movements with characteristic titles rather than merely the names of dances.

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France Question 27: _____ included all types of seventeenth-century vocal music except sacred music and opera.

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stylus cubicularis