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31 Cards in this Set
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Musicians date the Baroque period from about _____ to about ____.
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1600 to 1750
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(T/F) The term baroque means distorted or irregular.
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TRUE
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Eighteenth-century artists described seventeenth-century art as "baroque" because they found it to be
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strange and impassioned.
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All of the following ideas are characteristic of the Baroque period except
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-vivid contrasts and contradictions.
-affirmation of both sides of almost any question. X lack of interest in religion. -an increase in the importance of secular life. |
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All of the following occurred during the seventeenth century except
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-the opening of the first public opera house.
- the presentation of the first public concerts. X the increasing reliance of Baroque composers upon a small, aristocratic audience to accept their works. -the increasing trend among composers to seek public approval. |
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Handel's career as an opera composer made him more dependent on
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the support of the public.
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(T/F) The quality and quantity of Bach's secular concertos, suites, toccatas, and fugues reflect the increasing importance of secular music in the Baroque period.
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TRUE
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(T/F) During the seventeenth century, there were great strides made in scientific research, yet superstition was rampant and the belief in witchcraft, alchemy, and astrology firm.
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TRUE
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(T/F) The long and terrible religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries left central Europe largely Protestant and the northern countries largely Roman Catholic.
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FALSE
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(T/F) In England, the Anglican church harassed the Puritans, who fled to Holland and then sailed to the New World in 1620 to become America's Pilgrims.
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TRUE
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The first book printed in America (in 1640) was a psalter, the
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Bay Psalm Book
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The great artist Michelangelo died in 1564 on the same day that the scientific man of reason, ______________, was born.
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Galileo
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(T/F) Galileo's father was an influential member of the Florentine Camerata.
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TRUE
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Galileo's discoveries about the solar system
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-contradicted the teaching of the Roman Catholic church.
-aroused the attention of the Inquisition. -were rejected by Galileo himself under the threat of torture. ALL OF THE ABOVE |
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On the day in 1642 when the Italian Galileo died, _______________ was born.
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Isaac Newton
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Like Galileo, Newton was fascinated with all of the following except
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-the relationship between the planets and stars.
- the effects of gravity. - studies of the pendulum, which led to methods of measuring time in music. X the invention of the metronome in 1816. |
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The art of the Baroque is filled with each of the following except
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-tension.
-drive. X peace. -drama. |
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All of the following are characteristics of Baroque art except
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- the direction of the viewer's eye is often directed off the canvas.
-sculpted figures are seething with tension and strain. X buildings project a sense of repose and stability. -elaborate and complex decorative ornamentation. |
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Seventeenth-century painters shared with contemporary scientists a fascination with the properties and effects of
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light.
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The following are all famous Baroque artists except
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- Hals.
- Rubens. -Vermeer. X Moliere. |
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(T/F) Although the Church, the courts, and the city-state governments remained their primary employers, Baroque composers resisted submission to the taste and will of their patrons.
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TRUE
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Baroque musical style was affected by each of the following except
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-secular music becoming as important as sacred.
-as many fine instrumental compositions as vocal pieces. X homophonic texture becoming more important than polyphony. -contrasts of timbre, alternation of free and metered rhythms, and abrupt changes of dynamic levels. |
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All of the following were Baroque-era multimovement works except
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-the dance suite.
X the fugue. -the concerto. - the sonata. |
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(T/F) According to the doctrine of affections, only one mood was to be expressed within one composition or within one movement of a multimovement work.
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TRUE
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(T/F) During the Baroque period, the Renaissance style of four or more melodic lines was replaced by the preference for a melody in the highest voice or voices, supported by a strong bass line, with the disposition of the inner voices left largely to improvisation.
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TRUE
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During the Baroque period, composers developed the ___________ system, in which every note of the major or minor scale bears a specific relationship to every other note.
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TONAL
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In the Baroque system of tonality, all of the pitches of a major or minor scale were specifically related to the first note of the scale, or the
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TONIC
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(T/F) The increasing use of the triad, built upon all the degrees of the scale, gave a sense of stability and harmonic direction to tonal music not inherent in modality.
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TRUE
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The term, originally meaning irreguar, now applies to the dramatic, emotional style of seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century art
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Baroque
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Section of a complete work that has its own formal design and a degree of independence but is conceived as a part of the whole; usually separated from other movements by a pause
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movement
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System of harmony based on the major and the minor scales
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tonal
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