Music 120 - Music Appreciation » Fall 2019 » Quiz 22

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Question #1
A ground bass is heard only at the beginning of Dido’s aria.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #2
A hornpipe is
A.   All possible answers.
B.   characterized by a Scotch snap.
C.   characterized by a short-long rhythm.
D.   often associated with sailors.
Question #3
An aria is characterized by
A.   two intertwined melodies sung simultaneously.
B.   homorhythmic choral singing.
C.   tuneful and highly emotive melodies.
D.   rapid, speechlike declamation.
Question #4
At the time Monteverdi wrote the opera The Coronation of Poppea, what type of opera houses were opening in Venice?
A.   private
B.   monastic
C.   public
D.   symphonic
Question #5
Between scenes of an opera the orchestra may play
A.   sinfonias.
B.   an overture.
C.   a symphony.
D.   an aria.
Question #6
Despite being composed in England, Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas has an Italian text.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #7
Dido and Aeneas is one of the earliest, and most famous, Italian operas.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #8
Dido and Aeneas was first presented by
A.   the court of Mantua.
B.   a group of girls at a boarding school.
C.   the Royal Opera of England.
D.   no one, since stage plays were outlawed.
Question #9
Who of the following was an early composer of Italian opera?
A.   Machiavelli
B.   Palestrina
C.   Monteverdi
D.   Machiavelli
Question #10
How is grief musically depicted in Dido’s Lament?
A.   with a frenetic rhythmic pulse
B.   with a descending, chromatic bass line
C.   with an abrupt silence
D.   with a disjunct solo line
Question #11
In Baroque opera, what seemingly happens to the time during an aria?
A.   time goes backward
B.   time speeds up
C.   time continues in "clock time"
D.   time stops
Question #12
In the aria, Dido sings "Remember me, but ah! forget my fate." What was her fate?
A.   to join a convent
B.   to leave her country
C.   to marry Aeneas
D.   to die
Question #13
The _______ was an English entertainment that combined music and poetry.
A.   aria
B.   da capo aria
C.   masque
D.   opera
Question #14
The most important new genre of the Baroque era was
A.   the motet.
B.   the Mass.
C.   opera.
D.   the symphony.
Question #15
The bass line that opens and unifies Dido’s Lament is called a(n)
A.   ground bass.
B.   arioso.
C.   ritornello.
D.   overture.
Question #16
The libretto for Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas, is based on
A.   Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
B.   Homer’s Odyssey.
C.   Homer’s Iliad.
D.   Virgil’s Aeneid.
Question #17
The new Italian opera was embraced in all Western European countries.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #18
The opening of Act II of Dido and Aeneas begins with a sprightly tune in the style of a
A.   ground bass.
B.   lament.
C.   hornpipe.
D.   chorus.
Question #19
The principal components of opera include arias, recitatives, overtures, and
A.   organum.
B.   chant.
C.   cantatas.
D.   choruses.
Question #20
The text of an opera is known as a
A.   recitative.
B.   storybook.
C.   libretto.
D.   screenplay.

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