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| What type of qualities do madrigals and lute songs portray? |
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| Compositions saw an increase in what? |
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| Time period when lute songs were most popular |
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| What three countries did lute songs flourish? |
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| Two well-known composers of lute songs |
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| Lute songs emphasized what? |
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| Which enlightened despot advocated the divine rights of kings and declared "I am the State"? |
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| Who was executed in 1649 while still wearing his crown? |
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| Which war was fought mainly in the German territory? |
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| After which war was followed by a short-lived Republic in which the new king was restored? |
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| English Civil War (1642-1649) |
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| When and where was the 1st permanent english colony in the new world? |
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| Irregular, round, shape of a pearl, gawdy |
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| Baroque art stresses what? |
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| Ornatenous, large scenes with story, and spectacle. |
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| Baroque architecture is simple. True or False? |
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| FALSE. Emphasizes extra detail not needed such as columns, scrolls, and assorted filigree. |
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| Significant baroque artist who created "Ecstacy of St. Theresa". |
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| Gianlovenzo Bernini (1598-1680) |
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| What caused the Renaissance? |
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| What is the influential group working towards antiquity? |
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| Florentine Camerata (1573-1587) |
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| Important Historian/archeiologist apart of the Florentine Camerata. |
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| Which well-known composer functioned as a musical bridge between the Renaissance and Baroque? |
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| Which theorist published an attack on Monteverdi's madrigals in 1600? |
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| Artusi. He claimed that his madrigals lacked a good foundation by defying the old rule of counterpoint. |
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| Specific quality that instruments can create. |
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| What is the first existing opera? |
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| Who wrote the Doctrine of Affections? |
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| What are the six affections listed in the doctrine by Rene Descartes? |
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1. Wonder
2. Passion
3. Hatred
4. Desire
5. Joy
6. Sadness |
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| Who wrote the Doctrine of the figures? |
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| What were the two main points in the Doctrine of the Figures? |
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| In what year was the first public opera house opened in Venice? |
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| In 17th-century Baroque opera, what new technique permitted solo voices to declaim large quantities of text quickly but comprehensibly? |
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| Which of the following is not an important composer in the world of early opera? |
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| The late-16th century term for a cycle of madrigals connected by a dramatic theme is what? |
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| In what way does Monteverdi's 1641 Poppea not differ from his 1607 Orfeo? |
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| Poppea is not in Italian; Orfeo is |
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| In the score for Orfeo, does Monteverdi ask specific instruments to play at specific times? |
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| Did Monteverdi write any sacred music? |
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| According to the Composer Profile (on pp 235-36/3ed: pp 224-225), did Heinrich Schutz study in Venice at any time? |
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| Which city did Schutz not visit? |
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| Did Monteverdi or Schutz ever abandon the prima prattica entirely? |
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| Did 17th-century composers apply the principles of the seconda prattica to sacred music as well as secular? |
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| The collection Le nuove musiche contains pieces by which composer? |
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| Approximately when did the shift away from modes and towards diatonic major/minor harmony occur? |
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| What is not a development in music of the Baroque? |
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| Emphasis on women performers |
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| Did the seconda prattica emphasize greater or lesser freedom than the prima prattica? |
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| What is not a development in music of the Baroque? |
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| According the list "Music in the Baroque Era: A Stylistic Overview," what did the basso continuo provide? |
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| Harmonic and contrapuntal support |
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| What was not an element in French ballet de cour? |
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| What allowed Lully to control which sung dramas were produced in France? |
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| What is not part of a tragédie en musique? |
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| Did the German composer GF Handel ever compose operas in Italian? |
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| In which genre did Henry Purcell not work? |
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| Music for large ensembles |
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| The English composer Henry Purcell's Dioclesian, King Arthur, and The Fairy Queen may best be described as ______. |
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| Philippe Quinault contributed what to the new genre of tragédie en musique? |
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| Opera eventually developed in the 17th-18th centuries; Which region is not cited as having its own form of dramatic entertainment? |
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| Jean-Baptiste Lully was originally born in what country? |
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| Who is not a notable French dramatist? |
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| Was Purcell's Dido and Aeneas very popular upon its first appearance? |
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| In the 17th and 18th centuries, did opera develop quickly outside Italy? |
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| what French author said "It is not to be wonder'd that the Italians think our musick dull and stupefying . . if we consider the nature of the French airs compar'd to those of the Italian"? |
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| What is the term used to describe the genre of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera? |
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| Galileo Galilei was what? |
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| Which idea did the adjective 'baroque' originally convey? |
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| The Baroque era coincides with the age of which philosophy? |
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| In the Baroque period, which absolute ruler is quoted as saying ‘‘I am the state’‘? |
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| Did the arts flourish in England under Oliver Cromwell? |
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| Peter the Great established __________ as the capital of Russia. |
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| Which genre did GF Handel not compose? |
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| Who was the leading soprano in the performance of Caldara's Abisai witnessed by Uffenbach? |
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| What is not a characteristic of the 17th-century cantata? |
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| Of the women who published music in Italy between 1566-1700, approximately how many were nuns? |
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| In the 17th-18th centuries, did the demand for sacred music expand or contract? |
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| Did convents play a role in musical life in Milan in the 1600s? |
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| Oratorio was a sacred counterpart to what secular genre? |
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| During the period 1650-1750, was a large or a small amount of sacred music composed? |
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| Did composers in the late 16th century continue to write any polyphonic vocal music? |
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| Beginning in the middle of the 16th century, writers and musicians began to reassess the balance between what two art forms? |
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| Beginning in the middle of the 16th century, writers and musicians began to reassess the balance between what two art forms? |
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| In his 1555 treatise, which composer/theorist said "the composer's sole obligation is to animate the words"? |
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| In 17th-century French secular poetry and song, syllables are differentiated by what parameter? |
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| In what way does the 17th-century concertato madrigal not differ from the 16th-century madrigal? |
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| Did Monteverdi work only in the seconda prattica? |
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| What genre did Monteverdi not compose? |
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| The basic mood of Francesca Caccini's Lasciatemi qui solo is what? |
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| Was Monteverdi the first composer to employ controversial dissonance to illustrate texts? |
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| What 17th-century theorist attacked Monteverdi's use of dissonance in various madrigals? |
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| which Renaissance theorist said, in Le istitutioni armoniche, "when music is recited with taste, staying close to the usage of the ancients . . then the effects are observed"? |
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| In the 1589 entertainment organized by Bardi for a Medici wedding, what is/are the topics of the six intermedi composed by various members of the Florentine Camerata? |
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| Various mythological and allegorical stories and scenes |
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| When Zarlino says "music universally pleases more when it is simple than when fashioned with much artifice", is he expressing a preference for monody or polyphony? |
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| What is the definition of the term "camerata"? |
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| In the Baroque, were new compositions or old compositions more highly valued? |
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| Was the term ‘‘Baroque" used in the 17th and early 18th century to describe music in the period? |
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| In the Baroque, the single predominant emotion which it was thought every piece of music can and should convey was called what? |
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| Were the original connotations of the term ‘‘Baroque" positive or negative? |
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| What was the first existing opera? |
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| Where and when was the first opera house opened? |
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| Venice, Italy in the 1620's |
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| Three main types of opera in France |
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Ballet de cour
Comedie ballet
Tragedie en musique |
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| Fugue consists of these three musical ideas |
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| Concerted sound is harmonious. TRUE/FALSE. |
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Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gigue |
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| Sonata is meant to be performed by vocalists. TRUE/FALSE. |
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| FALSE. Meant for instrumentalists. |
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| Four important bass lines |
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Chaconne
Passacaglia
Passamezzo
Folia |
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| Who wrote the first German opera? |
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| Main difference between Oratorio and Cantata |
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| Oratorio contains a storyline/narrative. |
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| Half-sung/half-spoken styles: |
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Opera comique: France
Zarzuela: Spain
Singspiel: Germany
Ballad opera: England |
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| Main librettist of opera seria |
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| What is the south-seed bubble? |
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| First stock market crash in Europe (1720) |
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| What was the first opera in America? |
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| "The Disappointment" or "The Force of Crudelity" in 1760 |
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