MUSC 2100 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

MUSC 2100 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 A cappella - Answers choral music for voices alone, without instruments; alternation between imitation & homophony Absolutism - Answers belief in the divine right of kings, the idea that the right of kings to rule was absolute because they were chosen by God music required for court life & opera is closely associated with the courts Affects - Answers every key has an emotion attached to it Age of Theater - Answers emotional extremes; all arts take on a dramatic quality Aria - Answers clear beat, consistent meter pitches form melodic patterns & phrases orchestral accompaniment poetic text freezes the action (reflection) soliloquy Arpeggio - Answers a chord "broken" so that its pitches are played in quick succession rather than simultaneously Bach Cantata - Gapped Chorale Setting - Answers tune is presented in phrases with "gaps" between them, during which other music continues in other voices or instruments voices, string orchestra, & continuo Baroque musical form - Answers standardized formal patterns, which fill in orderly, logical manner (symmetrical ordering of movements) Baroque sacred music - Answers borrowed from secular (opera) & oratorio is the most operatic genre Basic Baroque orchestra - Answers string orchestra with continuo Basso continuo - Answers reinforced bass line & strong harmonic foundation (set of chords continuously underlying the melody) Binary form - Answers two different sections (a,b) - b is usually longer than a Bradenburg Concertos - Answers solo group = violin, flute, & harpsichord Cadenza - Answers improvised solo passage Cantata - Answers a work in several movements for solo voices & instruments (sacred or secular texts) Canzonas - Answers a lively, fugue like composition = rigorously organized & emphasize IMITATIVE textures Chanson - Answers french for song; genre of French secular music Chorale - Answers German for hymn; German congregational hymn that was emphasized in Lutheran Services Church Cantata - Answers Baroque Sacred music genre; written for Lutheran services in Germany (always sacred text & solo voices) Coloratura - Answers fast brilliant runs, scales, high notes, & vocal cadenzas Concerto Grosso - Answers main early Baroque type of concerto for a GROUP of solo instruments & a small orchestra; 3 movements fast (ritornello), slow, fast Counter-reformation - Answers considered banning complex polyphonic music Countersubject - Answers a subsidiary melodic line that appears regularly in counterpoint with the subject Dance suite - Answers group of dances put in one place; for orchestra to play De capo form - Answers Aria - from the beginning, ABA Declamation - Answers the way words are set to music, in terms of rhythm, accent, etc. Dufay, "Ave maris stella" - Answers harmonization of plainchant hymn; odd = chant, even = paraphrase Early homophony - Answers emphasized top voice, while the supporting polyphonic voices created simple chords; results in plainchant harmonization Episodes - Answers free, unstable, & connect subject entries that are in different keys (does not contain any complete appearances of the fugue subject) Festive Baroque orchestra - Answers add brass, woodwinds, & percussion Figured Bass - Answers system of notating the continuo chords Frescobaldi - Answers instrumentalist virtuoso (organ); known for expressiveness & extravagance Fugue - Answers composition written systematically in imitative polyphony, usually with a single main theme (fugue subject) Fugue 1 in C Major - Answers multiple chords - 24 subject entries (piano); stretto Functional harmony - Answers all the chords have a specific interrelation & function in relation to the tonic Galliard - Answers lively dance in fast triple meter Gigue - Answers lively compound meter Giovanni Gabrieli - Answers organist - added choirs of brass players on different balconies Ground Bass/Basso - Answers repeating bass line Handel - Answers opera seria - de capo aria Homophony - Answers rich chordal quality created out of polyphonic lines that still maintained a quiet sense of independence (top voice dominates); provides effective contrast to imitation Hymn - Answers a simple religious song in several stanzas, for congregational singing in church I & II - Answers ritornello theme (solos become progressively freer & virtuosic); contrasting slow movement in variation form - repetition of ground bass Instrumental Music - Answers sources = dance, virtuosity, & virtual music Inversion - Answers reading or playing a melody or a 12-tone series upside down Jig - Answers perky dance tune - fast dance in compound meter Josquin, "Pange Lingua Mass" (Gloria) - Answers alternating textures; urgent plea for mercy where it starts out slow then gets louder Josquin, "Pange Lingua Mass" (Kyrie) - Answers (HIGH RENAISSANCE STYLE - unified mass based on plainsong hymn) point of imitation (short passage of imitative polyphony based on a single theme, or on two used together) Late Baroque Period - Answers age of absolutism & science understanding & learning during this period Art's political function to reflect & symbolize the majesty of the state & to stupefy us with its grandeur Libretto/Librettist - Answers "little book" words of opera; author of an opera Madrigal - Answers main secular VOCAL GENRE OF THE RENAISSANCE; points of imitation are shorter, imitation is less strict, more homophony, & words are more important Melody - Answers tends towards complexity = "spun out of itself" Minuet - Answers dance in moderate triple meter Monteverdi - Answers first great opera composer; The Coronation of Poppea (recitative = speeds up & slows down; aria = victory dance) Motet - Answers sacral vocal composition Movement - Answers a self-contained section of a larger piece Musical Life in Late Baroque - Answers composer as artisan church composers - composed or improvised new music for worship court composers - employees of the court, producing music to order opera house musicians - supported by the public (paid admission) Opera - Answers drama presented in music (MOST CHARACTERISTIC BAROQUE ART FORM) Opera Seria - Answers serious, heroic opera; tragic idea, military based, & Greek/Roman story-based; almost entirely solo singing Oratorio - Answers opera on a religious subject; concert form Ornamentation - Answers addition of fast notes & vocal effects (such as trills) to a melody, make it more florid & expressive Palestrina, "Pope Marcellus Mass" (Gloria) - Answers more homophonic, clearer declamation, response to the counter-revolution; high voices then low voices