Baroque opera - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Andante - walking pace Largissimo - slow and broad largo - long larghetto - slow, but not as slow as largo Lydian - Major scale with raised 4th Dorian Mode - a scale with the pattern of whole step, half, whole, whole, whole, half, and whole Locrian Mode - a scale or tonality in which half steps occur between notes 1-2 and 4-5, as if playing all the white keys from B to B Phrygian Mode - Scale in which half steps occur between notes 1-2 and 5-6, as if playing all white keys f...

vaMusic Praxis II (5114) Latest Update Graded A+ Antiquity 500 AD to 500 BC Medieval 500 BC to 1300 Renaissance 1300 to 1600 Baroque 1600 to 1750 Classical 1750 to 1820 Romantic 1820 to 1900 20th Century 1900- Aria operatic solo; a song sung by one person in an opera or oratorio Bourree French baroque dance in fast duple meter Cantata Music composition using sacred texts (Baroque) Chanson A french polyphonic song (late middle ages and Renaissance) Choral prelude composition for an org...

Baroque OperaWhat was the most important new genre of music in the Baroque? - correct answer Opera Define Opera - correct answer a large-scale music drama combining poetry, acting, scenery and costumes with singing and instrumental music What are the principal components of opera - correct answer orchestral overture, arias, recitatives and ensembles, including choruses Define aria - correct answer a lyrical song expressing an emotion Define recitative - correct answer speech-like dec...

Baroque Opera Exam Questions And Answers 2024. What was the most important new genre of music in the Baroque? - correct answer Opera Define Opera - correct answer a large-scale music drama combining poetry, acting, scenery and costumes with singing and instrumental music What are the principal components of opera - correct answer orchestral overture, arias, recitatives and ensembles, including choruses Define aria - correct answer a lyrical song expressing an emotion Define recitati...

Baroque OperaWhat was the most important new genre of music in the Baroque? - correct answer Opera Define Opera - correct answer a large-scale music drama combining poetry, acting, scenery and costumes with singing and instrumental music What are the principal components of opera - correct answer orchestral overture, arias, recitatives and ensembles, including choruses Define aria - correct answer a lyrical song expressing an emotion Define recitative - correct answer speech-like dec...

Baroque OperaWhat was the most important new genre of music in the Baroque? - correct answer Opera Define Opera - correct answer a large-scale music drama combining poetry, acting, scenery and costumes with singing and instrumental music What are the principal components of opera - correct answer orchestral overture, arias, recitatives and ensembles, including choruses Define aria - correct answer a lyrical song expressing an emotion Define recitative - correct answer speech-like dec...

Baroque Period Questions and Answers Already Passed Characteristics of Baroque bizarre, flamboyant, ornamented, extreme emotion Baroque AKA ____________ "Age of Absolutism" 2 major composers Handel and Back Other well known composers Monteverdi, Purcell, Corelli, Vivaldi Early baroque favored... homophonic texture over poly Late baroque ... polyphonic returned Characteristics of Baroque Usually expresses ONE MOOD, unless vocals are involved Affections moods (joy, grief, agitation) Baro...

Music Content Knowledge (5113) Latest 2024 Graded A+ Antiquity 500AD - 500BC Medieval 500 - 1400 - Monophonic (plain chant) Renaissance - Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments Baroque - Counterpoint, small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), harpsichord and organ become more popular Classical - Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music Romantic - More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalis...

Antiquity - 500AD - 500BC Medieval - 500 - 1400 - Monophonic (plain chant) Renaissance - - Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments Baroque - - Counterpoint, small orchestras, (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), string quartets, harpsichord and organ become more popular Classical - - Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music Romantic - - More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalism, symphonic poem 20th Century - - Rejection o...

BaroqueWhat are the boundaries (years) of early baroque? - correct answer Where did the Baroque style originate and why? - correct answer Venice -- it was a very rich city-state and wanted to show off its power to the world through its grandiloquent and majestic music (which was just the style of Baroque) What was a particular favorite sound in Venice in the beginning of Baroque? - correct answer double choir, organ, and low brass instruments "O magnum mysterium" was written by who a...