General Music
Music of the Baroque
Test

1.  The Baroque Period was named for a popular ___________________ style of _________________________.

2.  The music of the Baroque was also highly ____________________ and increasingly __________________.

3.  The Baroque practice of sudden shifts in volume is called ___________________ _____________________.

4.  The __________________ _______________________ was a group of noblemen, artists, and scholars working in Florence, Italy who are famous for the invention of _______________________.

5.  The first known opera was composed by ________________________ ______________________ in _____________ (year) for the wedding of Maria de Medici to King Henry IV of ______________________.

6.  ______________________ _________________________ wrote the earliest surviving opera in ____________________ (year), titled __________________________.

7.  What important American historical event happened in the same year?

8.  ______________ _________________ was an important Venetian composer in the development of the Concerto Grosso.

9.  The __________________ _________________________ was an important Baroque form which alternated and contrasted passages for the orchestra (large group, ripieno) with a small group (concertino).

10.  The ______________________ was an accompanied work in several sections for orchestra and chorus, usually with sacred text, which was a prominent component of the Protestant worship service.

11.  The _____________________ was a sectional form for soloists, chorus, and orchestra with sacred text, which evolved during the Baroque as an acceptably religious entertainment in response to the sacrificial Lenten season.

12.  ________________________ music is also called "counterpoint", meaning point against point or note against note.  

13.  The word _______________ literally means "flight," and describes a form descended from programmatic pieces intended to illustrate the hunt (ricercar, caccia).

14.  In the ______________ ____________________ tuning system, the octave is divided into twelve equal intervals (1/2 steps), making them equally "out of tune." 

15.  _________________________________ was such an important composer that historians close the Baroque period with the year of his death.