Praxis 5113 Baroque/ Classical Music
Baroque Period - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 1600-1750
Composers of Baroque - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Bach, Handel, Vivaldi
Bach - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Composer who believed music was a means to worship God and lived
a quiet life at a church; created the Mass in B Minor
Handel - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ studied the law and made the audience revel in his glory and
created the Messiah.
Fux - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Gradus ad Parnassum
Corelli - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ First composer to make a career selling printed music.
First composer to write only instrumental music. First composer whose works remain played and
studied after his death.
Importance of trio sonata genre.
Great instruments helped improve string-playing techniques in Italy.
Characteristics of Baroque Music - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ -Unity of mood
-Continuity of rhythm and melody
-Terraced Dynamics
-Predominantly polyphonic; extensive use of imitation
-Chords become increasingly important
-counterpoint with small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins)
-harpsichord and organ become popular
-diatonic melody in wide range
-figured bass was used.
figured bass - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ in musical notation, a numerical shorthand that tells the player
which unwritten notes to fill in above the written bass note
Lully - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ most important composer of the French opera
Monteverdi - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ transitional composer from Renaissance to Baroque who used
dissonance, contrast, polyphony, and the orchestra to create drama and expressiveness; wrote
"L'incoronazione di Poppea"
Vivaldi - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ "Red Priest"
Wrote "Four Seasons"
500 concertos
, harpsichord - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Early Baroque keyboard instrument in which the strings are
plucked by quills instead of being struck with hammers like the piano.
Purcell - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Baroque
Monody - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ (1) An accompanied solo song. (2) The musical TEXTURE of solo
singing accompanied by one or more instruments.
Characteristics of Baroque music - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ -Lots of ornamentation
-Basso Continuo
-increase in secular music
-coloratura
-many opposing voices
-large emphasis on words
-tonal counterpoint
-diatonic melodies
-large ranges
-harmonies and dissonance in chords
coloratura - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 1. vocal music ornamented with runs and trills
2. soprano specializing in such music
Tonal Counterpoint - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔
Why does the Baroque era equal the harmonic age? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Harmony is used
instead of counterpoint control and major and minor scales was used instead of modal scales.
Nuove Musiche - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ -[date] 1602
-[genre]
-[author/composer] Giulio Caccini
-[subject matter] in this book, Caccini claims that he invented a new type of music (monody) (a claim
similar to claims made by other composers of his time). exhibits Caccini's understanding of monody
Traite de l'harmonie - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ "Treatise on Harmony" Rameau's principal work and
one of the most influential of all theoretical works. In this treatise he synthesized all the theoretical
ideas into one work.
tonic - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ pertaining to tone
subdominant - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 4th scale degree
dominant tone - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔
Baroque Period - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 1600-1750
Composers of Baroque - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Bach, Handel, Vivaldi
Bach - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Composer who believed music was a means to worship God and lived
a quiet life at a church; created the Mass in B Minor
Handel - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ studied the law and made the audience revel in his glory and
created the Messiah.
Fux - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Gradus ad Parnassum
Corelli - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ First composer to make a career selling printed music.
First composer to write only instrumental music. First composer whose works remain played and
studied after his death.
Importance of trio sonata genre.
Great instruments helped improve string-playing techniques in Italy.
Characteristics of Baroque Music - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ -Unity of mood
-Continuity of rhythm and melody
-Terraced Dynamics
-Predominantly polyphonic; extensive use of imitation
-Chords become increasingly important
-counterpoint with small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins)
-harpsichord and organ become popular
-diatonic melody in wide range
-figured bass was used.
figured bass - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ in musical notation, a numerical shorthand that tells the player
which unwritten notes to fill in above the written bass note
Lully - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ most important composer of the French opera
Monteverdi - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ transitional composer from Renaissance to Baroque who used
dissonance, contrast, polyphony, and the orchestra to create drama and expressiveness; wrote
"L'incoronazione di Poppea"
Vivaldi - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ "Red Priest"
Wrote "Four Seasons"
500 concertos
, harpsichord - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Early Baroque keyboard instrument in which the strings are
plucked by quills instead of being struck with hammers like the piano.
Purcell - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Baroque
Monody - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ (1) An accompanied solo song. (2) The musical TEXTURE of solo
singing accompanied by one or more instruments.
Characteristics of Baroque music - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ -Lots of ornamentation
-Basso Continuo
-increase in secular music
-coloratura
-many opposing voices
-large emphasis on words
-tonal counterpoint
-diatonic melodies
-large ranges
-harmonies and dissonance in chords
coloratura - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 1. vocal music ornamented with runs and trills
2. soprano specializing in such music
Tonal Counterpoint - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔
Why does the Baroque era equal the harmonic age? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Harmony is used
instead of counterpoint control and major and minor scales was used instead of modal scales.
Nuove Musiche - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ -[date] 1602
-[genre]
-[author/composer] Giulio Caccini
-[subject matter] in this book, Caccini claims that he invented a new type of music (monody) (a claim
similar to claims made by other composers of his time). exhibits Caccini's understanding of monody
Traite de l'harmonie - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ "Treatise on Harmony" Rameau's principal work and
one of the most influential of all theoretical works. In this treatise he synthesized all the theoretical
ideas into one work.
tonic - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ pertaining to tone
subdominant - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 4th scale degree
dominant tone - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔
