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Undergraduate 2
11/18/2011

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What type of qualities do madrigals and lute songs portray?
Definition
Mannerist
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Compositions saw an increase in what?
Definition
Virtuosity
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Time period when lute songs were most popular
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1550-1650
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What three countries did lute songs flourish?
Definition
Italy, France, England
Term
Two well-known composers of lute songs
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Dowland, Campion
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Lute songs emphasized what?
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Declaration of text
Term
Which enlightened despot advocated the divine rights of kings and declared "I am the State"?
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Louis XIV of France
Term
Who was executed in 1649 while still wearing his crown?
Definition
King Charles I
Term
Which war was fought mainly in the German territory?
Definition
30 years war (1618-1648)
Term
After which war was followed by a short-lived Republic in which the new king was restored?
Definition
English Civil War (1642-1649)
Term
When and where was the 1st permanent english colony in the new world?
Definition
1607, Jamestown VA
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Baroque literally means?
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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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Humanism.
Term
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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Mei
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Which well-known composer functioned as a musical bridge between the Renaissance and Baroque?
Definition
Claudio Monteverdi 
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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.
Term
Define idiomatic.
Definition
Specific quality that instruments can create.
Term
What is the first existing opera?
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Daphne by Peri in 1598
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Who wrote the Doctrine of Affections?
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Rene Descartes
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What are the six affections listed in the doctrine by Rene Descartes?
Definition

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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Christoph Bernhard
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What were the two main points in the Doctrine of the Figures?
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Rhetoric and Antiquity
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In what year was the first public opera house opened in Venice?
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1637
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In 17th-century Baroque opera, what new technique permitted solo voices to declaim large quantities of text quickly but comprehensibly?
Definition
Recitative
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Which of the following is not an important composer in the world of early opera?
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Artusi
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The late-16th century term for a cycle of madrigals connected by a dramatic theme is what?
Definition
Madrigal Comedy
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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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Yes
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Did Monteverdi write any sacred music?
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Yes
Term
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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Yes
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Which city did Schutz not visit?
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London
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Did Monteverdi or Schutz ever abandon the prima prattica entirely?
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No
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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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Yes
Term
The collection Le nuove musiche contains pieces by which composer?
Definition
Giulio Caccini
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Approximately when did the shift away from modes and towards diatonic major/minor harmony occur?
Definition
End of the 17th century
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What  is not a development in music of the Baroque?
Definition
Emphasis on women performers
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Did the seconda prattica emphasize greater or lesser freedom than the prima prattica?
Definition
Greater
Term
What is not a development in music of the Baroque?
Definition
Creation of orchestras
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According the list "Music in the Baroque Era: A Stylistic Overview," what did the basso continuo provide?
Definition
Harmonic and contrapuntal support
Term
 What was not an element in French ballet de cour?
Definition
Vocal virtuosity
Term
What allowed Lully to control which sung dramas were produced in France?
Definition
Patent from the crown
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What is not part of a tragédie en musique?
Definition
Spoken sections
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Did the German composer GF Handel ever compose operas in Italian?
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Yes
Term
In which genre did Henry Purcell not work?
Definition
Music for large ensembles
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The English composer Henry Purcell's DioclesianKing Arthur, and The Fairy Queen may best be described as ______.
Definition
Semi-operas
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Philippe Quinault contributed what to the new genre of tragédie en musique?
Definition
Poetry
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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?
Definition
Germany
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Jean-Baptiste Lully was originally born in what country?
Definition
Italy
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Who is not a notable French dramatist?
Definition
Dowland
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Was Purcell's Dido and Aeneas very popular upon its first appearance?
Definition
No
Term
In the 17th and 18th centuries, did opera develop quickly outside Italy?
Definition
No
Term
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"?
Definition
Raguenet
Term
What is the term used to describe the genre of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera?
Definition
Ballad Opera
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Galileo Galilei was what?
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Astronomer
Term
Moliere was what?
Definition
Comic playwright
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Which idea did the adjective 'baroque' originally convey?
Definition
Distorted and grotesque
Term
The Baroque era coincides with the age of which philosophy?
Definition
Absolutism
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In the Baroque period, which absolute ruler is quoted as saying ‘‘I am the state’‘?
Definition
Louis XIV of France
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Did the arts flourish in England under Oliver Cromwell?
Definition
No
Term
Peter the Great established __________ as the capital of Russia.
Definition
St. Petersburg
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Which genre did GF Handel not compose?
Definition
Latin Mass
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Who was the leading soprano in the performance of Caldara's Abisai witnessed by Uffenbach?
Definition
Caldara's wife
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What  is not a characteristic of the 17th-century cantata?
Definition
For unaccompanied chorus
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Of the women who published music in Italy between 1566-1700, approximately how many were nuns?
Definition
More than half
Term
In the 17th-18th centuries, did the demand for sacred music expand or contract?
Definition
Expand
Term
Did convents play a role in musical life in Milan in the 1600s?
Definition
Yes
Term
Oratorio was a sacred counterpart to what secular genre?
Definition
Opera
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During the period 1650-1750, was a large or a small amount of sacred music composed?
Definition
Large
Term
Did composers in the late 16th century continue to write any polyphonic vocal music?
Definition
Yes
Term
Beginning in the middle of the 16th century, writers and musicians began to reassess the balance between what two art forms?
Definition
Words and 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?
Definition
Nicola Vicentino
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In his 1555 treatise, which composer/theorist said "the composer's sole obligation is to animate the words"?
Definition
Vicentino
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In 17th-century French secular poetry and song, syllables are differentiated by what parameter?
Definition
Length
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In what way does the 17th-century concertato madrigal not differ from the 16th-century madrigal?
Definition
Employs poetic text
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Did Monteverdi work only in the seconda prattica?
Definition
No
Term
What genre did Monteverdi not compose?
Definition
Keyboard music
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The basic mood of Francesca Caccini's Lasciatemi qui solo is what?
Definition
Sorrow
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Was Monteverdi the first composer to employ controversial dissonance to illustrate texts?
Definition
No
Term
What 17th-century theorist attacked Monteverdi's use of dissonance in various madrigals?
Definition
Artusi
Term
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"?
Definition
Zarlino
Term
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?
Definition
Various mythological and allegorical stories and scenes
Term
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?
Definition
Monody
Term
What is the definition of the term "camerata"?
Definition
"Club" or "Society"
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In the Baroque, were new compositions or old compositions more highly valued?
Definition
New
Term
Was the term ‘‘Baroque" used in the 17th and early 18th century to describe music in the period?
Definition
No
Term
In the Baroque, the single predominant emotion which it was thought every piece of music can and should convey was called what?
Definition
Affect
Term
Were the original connotations of the term ‘‘Baroque" positive or negative?
Definition
Negative
Term
What was the first existing opera?
Definition
Daphne by Peri
Term
Where and when was the first opera house opened?
Definition
Venice, Italy in the 1620's
Term
Three main types of opera in France
Definition

Ballet de cour

Comedie ballet

Tragedie en musique

Term
Form of French Overture
Definition
AB
Term
Form of Da Capo Aria
Definition
ABA'
Term
Fugue consists of these three musical ideas
Definition
Subject, answer, episode
Term
Concerted sound is harmonious. TRUE/FALSE.
Definition
TRUE
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Four parts of the Suite
Definition

Allemande

Courante

Sarabande

Gigue

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Sonata is meant to be performed by vocalists. TRUE/FALSE.
Definition
FALSE. Meant for instrumentalists.
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Four important bass lines
Definition

Chaconne

Passacaglia

Passamezzo

Folia

Term
Who wrote the first German opera?
Definition
Heinrich Shutz in 1627
Term
Main difference between Oratorio and Cantata
Definition
Oratorio contains a storyline/narrative.
Term
Half-sung/half-spoken styles:
Definition

Opera comique: France

Zarzuela: Spain

Singspiel: Germany

Ballad opera: England

Term
Main librettist of opera seria
Definition
Pietro Metastasio
Term
What is the south-seed bubble?
Definition
First stock market crash in Europe (1720)
Term
Who wrote Beggars Opera?
Definition
John Gay
Term
What was the first opera in America?
Definition
"The Disappointment" or "The Force of Crudelity" in 1760
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