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1. Most Baroque composers in the north (Germany) concentrated on
operatic arias
the art of counterpoint
2. During the Baroque era, regional musical styles in Europe
remained isolated and provincial
intermingled extensively
3. One of the earliest great Baroque composers was
Johann Sebastian Bach
Antonio Vivaldi
Claudio Monteverdi
4. Which of the following was NOT a mark of the Baroque age?
the importance of scientific investigation
development of the new world
the rise of democracy
5. Which of the following forms was new in the Baroque era?
madrigal
opera
motet
6. Which of these string instruments became the most important during the Baroque era?
viol da gamba
mandolin
violin
7. Which of the following is true of Baroque musical style?
The ideal was a capella vocal music
Instruments and voices were mixed freely
Instrumental music replaced vocal music entirely
all of the above
8. The Italian composer and violinist whose style of playing influenced later generations of string players was
Telemann
Rameau
Corelli
Puccini
9. An Italian city known as the "conservatory of the 18th century" was
Florence
Naples
Rome
10. The most important Neapolitan composer of the Baroque era was
A. Scarlatti
Monteverdi
Corelli
11. The most important English composer of the Baroque period was
John Dowland
William Byrd
Henry Purcell
12. The composer who held a monopoly over French music-making in the 17th century was
Rameau
Couperin
Lully
13. Baroque opera traces its origins to the efforts of the "camerata" located in
Paris
Venice
Florence
14. The vocal form used for speech-like declamation in opera became known as
aria
recitative
overture
madrigal
15. The first public opera house opened in 1637 in
Florence
Venice
Naples
Rome
16. One of the earliest oratorios was
Handel's Messiah
Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
Cavalieri's The Representation of Soul and Body
17. The composer responsible for introducing oratorio to Germany was
Schutz
Bach
Handel
Buxtehude
18. Monteverdi's 5th through 8th books of Madrigals are significant partly because they
use organ accompaniment
develop the concerto style
19. In the concertos of Corelli's Op. 6, the concertino was
a large group of instruments
a soloist
a group of three instruments
20.
L'art de toucher le clavecin
is a treatise on harpsichord playing by
Couperin
Rameau
Lully