Music 120 - Music Appreciation » Fall 2019 » Quiz 21

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Question #1
Barbara Strozzi published more arias than any other male singer-composer in her times.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #2
Barbara Strozzi was
A.   probably the illegitimate daughter of the Venetian poet Giulo Strozzi.
B.   raised in a convent in Germany.
C.   of noble birth.
D.   a nun at St. Radegonda in Milan.
Question #3
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani was a nun at the convent of St. Radegonda in
A.   Milan.
B.   Florence.
C.   Venice.
D.   Rome.
Question #4
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and Barbara Strozzi are unique in that
A.   they were both nuns at St. Radegonda.
B.   they both published music in their lifetimes.
C.   they were famous operatic sopranos.
D.   they were both keyboard virtuosos.
Question #5
Cozzolani’s Magnificat closes with a particular prayer of praise to God called the
A.   Mass.
B.   Magnificat.
C.   doxology.
D.   vespers.
Question #6
Cozzolani’s Magnificat is sung in which language?
A.   French
B.   Italian
C.   Latin
D.   English
Question #7
During the Baroque era, the Catholic Church offered a wide variety of options for women to express their spirituality.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #8
Many women composers in the Baroque era felt a particularly strong affinity with which biblical character?
A.   St. Peter
B.   the Virgin Mary
C.   St. Paul
D.   St. Joseph
Question #9
Music has often been a means for marginalized people to voice their perspective.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #10
Music was not a part of the life of nuns in convents in the Baroque era.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #11
On whom did Augustinian priest Filippo Picinelli lavish praise in 1670?
A.   Sister Mary Francis of Rome
B.   the nuns of St. Radegonda of Milan
C.   Claudio Monteverdi
D.   Barbara Strozzi
Question #12
In times such as the Baroque era, when women had few choices in their lives, what was the only honorable alternative to marriage?
A.   working as a servant
B.   becoming a musician
C.   entering a convent
D.   becoming a priest
Question #13
Priests and monks were brought in to convents to sing the lower parts in polyphonic music.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #14
It has been suggested that Barbara Strozzi
A.   did not compose.
B.   developed the madrigal as a genre.
C.   was a courtesan.
D.   was the best opera singer of the Baroque era.
Question #15
Sleepyhead, Cupid! is sung in which language?
A.   Latin
B.   French
C.   English
D.   Italian
Question #16
The Baroque era offered few musical possibilities for creative women.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #17
The form of Sleepyhead, Cupid! is
A.   a da capo aria.
B.   ternary.
C.   All possible answers.
D.   A-B-A.
Question #18
The music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani was
A.   not published until after her death.
B.   known only within the confines of St. Radegonda.
C.   not performed in her lifetime.
D.   published during her lifetime and circulated beyond the convent.
Question #19
The text setting of Strozzi’s Sleepyhead, Cupid! includes
A.   word-painting.
B.   recitative.
C.   improvisation.
D.   figured bass.
Question #20
The themes of Barbara Strozzi’s arias often focus on
A.   sacred themes.
B.   All possible answers.
C.   the theme of love.
D.   the Virgin Mary.

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