Chapter 6 music app questions n answers graded A+ 2023/2024

Chapter 6 music appThe music of the baroque would often as highly ornamented architecture and paintings of the period - correct answer True During the baroque period music declined in the importance in the Catholic Church - correct answer False In the Protestant churches almost all music disappeared during the baroque - correct answer False The gardens at Versailles are exquisite examples of the baroque artistic aesthetics - correct answer True Coffee, chocolate, and tobacco from the new world were available primarily to the upper classes of Europe - correct answer True The Baroque music that has come down to us was primarily written for the church in the nobility - correct answer False The basso continuo mine is played by two instruments: chordal instrument and a second playing the melodic bass line - correct answer True Basso continuo was used only in the operas - correct answer False The musical rhythm of recitative is very strict and rigid - correct answer False Secco recitative is accompanied by the full orchestra - correct answer False Operatic choral singing is often fairly homophonic - correct answer True Peri and Monteverdi composed operas based on the same object-the story of Orpheus - correct answer True The baroque opera was rarely based on Greek legends - correct answer False Francesca Caccini was an opera singer and composer at the court of the Medici family - correct answer True Heroic male roles in the baroque opera were often sung by castrati - correct answer True Today women frequently sing castrato roles - correct answer True Purcell's Dido and Aeneas marks the beginning of opera as a major art form - correct answer False The earliest public opera houses were built by 1637 - correct answer True Though many composers, such as Handel, composed opera, it never really became popular outside of Italy - correct answer False French opera during the baroque period was essentially the same as Italian opera because the primary opera composer, Lully, was Italian - correct answer False Which city was the leader of the European culture and design by the 18th century - correct answer Paris The greatest baroque church musician was - correct answer Johann sebastian bach The group of musicians and scholars who invented opera while trying to recreate the spirit of Greek drama were the - correct answer Camerata Homophonic music that allows the singers voice to predominate - correct answer Monody