Music 111 - Music Appreciation » Winter 2021 » Chapter 16 Quiz

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Question #1
The most important new genre of the Baroque era was:
A.   the mass
B.   opera
C.   singing
Question #2
The principal components of opera include arias, recitatives, overtures, and:
A.   chant
B.   choruses
C.   cantatas
Question #3
Narrative multimedia is an art form that:
A.   is abstract
B.   is run by a multinational business conglomerate
C.   tells a story
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.   recitative
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.   tuneful and highly emotive melodies
B.   rapid speechlike declamation??
C.   homorhythmic choral singing
Question #8
In Baroque opera, what happens to the time during an aria?
A.   time continues in “clock time”
B.   time goes backward
C.   time stops
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 Iliad.
B.   the Odyssey.
C.   the Aeneid.
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.   ritornello
C.   ground bass
Question #13
Dido's aria is in two sections. Which text line begins the second section?
A.   "When I am laid in earth"
B.   "Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me"
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 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 disjunct solo line
B.   with a frenetic rhythmic pulse
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.   no one, since stage plays were outlawed
B.   a group of girls at a boarding school
C.   the Royal Opera of England??
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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