Music Appreciation Exam III The Baroque Era UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Music Appreciation Exam III The Baroque
Era UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
1. The Baroque era can be characterized as, extravagant, bizarre, a period of energy and
motion of ornamentation and extremes: - CORRECT ANSWER- True
2. During the Baroque era, in all the arts the ...
Music Appreciation Exam III The Baroque
Era UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
1. The Baroque era can be characterized as, extravagant, bizarre, a period of energy and
motion of ornamentation and extremes: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
2. During the Baroque era, in all the arts the expression of one particular emotion known as
affect became all-important: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
3. In the Baroque era a nation's splendor was measured in cultural terms as well as political
and economic terms: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
4. Baroque style flourished in music during the period: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1600-
1750
5. The musical giants of the baroque period were: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Bach and
Handel
6. In the music of the Baroque era, textures, harmonies, and forms tend to be more free and
unpredictable: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
7. A small ensemble (in the Baroque era), which provides an underlying bass line and
harmonies is called: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Basso Continuo "Continuous bass"
8. The instruments that make up the basso continuo ensemble are: - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Bass viol/cello or bassoon/lute or harpsichord
9. During the Baroque period the makeup of the orchestra: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔was
flexible and could vary from piece to piece
10. In a musical ensemble, a group of instruments or voices with similar timbres or roles is
called: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔section
, 11. The Italian word for "big concerto" is: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔concerto grosso
12. An instrumental genre for a soloist (or sometimes more than one soloist) and a larger
group is called: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔concerto
13. The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the: - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔tutti
14. Ritornello (in Italian), or little return (in English) is the statement and the return of the full
ensemble, in a work alternating between the orchestra and soloist or soloists: - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔True
15. The baroque composer who took the art of virtuoso violin playing to new levels was: -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Antonio Vivaldi
16. During the early eighteenth-century in northern Italy violin making and violin playing
were at their very peak. One of the best violin makers (who is mentioned in our text book)
was: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Antonio Strativari
17. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 features multiple soloists such as the: - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔trumpet, oboe, violin, recorder
18. The main theme of the fugue is called: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔subject
19. A passage in a fugue, in which the subject is NOT present, is called episode: - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔True
20. A well known work by Johann Sebastian Bach which uses a subject, middle entries and
episodes is called: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Organ Fugue in G minor (little fugue)
21. A play set to music and sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and
action is called: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔opera
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