Music 111 - Music Appreciation » Summer 2020 » Chapter 16 Quiz

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Question #1
The most important new genre of the Baroque era was:
A.   opera
B.   the mass
C.   singing
Question #2
The principal components of opera include arias, recitatives, overtures, and:
A.   chant
B.   cantatas
C.   choruses
Question #3
Narrative multimedia is an art form that:
A.   tells a story
B.   is run by a multinational business conglomerate
C.   is abstract
Question #4
Which of the following was an early master of Italian opera?
A.   Machiavelli
B.   Palestrina
C.   Monteverdi
Question #5
The text of an opera is known as a:
A.   recitative
B.   screenplay
C.   libretto
Question #6
Which is NOT true of an overture?
A.   It is an instrumental introduction to an opera.
B.   It is generally played again between scenes.
C.   It may introduce themes from arias to follow.
Question #7
An aria is characterized by:
A.   homorhythmic choral singing
B.   tuneful and highly emotive melodies
C.   rapid speechlike declamation??
Question #8
In Baroque opera, what happens to the time during an aria?
A.   time stops
B.   time continues in “clock time”
C.   time goes backward
Question #9
Where was Purcell employed when he wrote Dido and Aeneas?
A.   He was a court composer.
B.   He was a church organist.
C.   He was a music teacher in a girls' school.
Question #10
The libretto for Dido and Aeneas is based on:
A.   the Aeneid.
B.   the Odyssey.
C.   the Iliad.
Question #11
Which musical style best describes the opening line "Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me"?
A.   aria
B.   recitative
Question #12
What is the structural basis for Dido's aria?
A.   ritornello
B.   ground bass
C.   da capo
Question #13
Dido's aria is in two sections. Which text line begins the second section?
A.   "Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me"
B.   "When I am laid in earth"
C.   "Remember me, but ah! forget my fate"
Question #14
Why does Dido sing a lament at the end of the opera?
A.   because Aeneas was lost at sea
B.   because Aeneas left her
C.   because Aeneas has been murdered
Question #15
In the aria, Dido sings "Remember me, but ah! forget my fate." What was her fate?
A.   to die
B.   to leave her country
C.   to marry Aeneas
Question #16
How does Purcell musically depict Dido's grief in this aria?
A.   with a frenetic rhythmic pulse
B.   with a disjunct solo line
C.   with a descending, chromatic bass line
Question #17
A ground bass is heard only at the beginning of Dido's aria.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #18
Dido and Aeneas was first presented by:
A.   a group of girls at a boarding school
B.   the Royal Opera of England??
C.   no one, since stage plays were outlawed
Question #19
The masque was an English entertainment that combined music and poetry.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #20
The earliest opera plots were drawn from real-life situations
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE

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