Music 111 - Music Appreciation » Winter 2021 » Chapter 17 Quiz

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

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