Exam 8: The Early Baroque Period

Who is known as "the last great madrigalist and the first great opera composer"?

Which two instruments would most likely have played the basso continuo in the Baroque era?

The term basso continuo:

Describe the "Most Serene Republic" of Venice around 1600.Refer to the arts,the socioeconomic climate of the city,and the city's appearance in your answer.

Who composed Dido and Aeneas?

What characterizes the art of the early instrumental virtuosos?

A Baroque composition that treats one melody imitatively is called a:

Which compositional technique do you hear in "O magnum mysterium"?

What feature of harmony disappeared during the Baroque period?

There are ________ sections in the final scene of Dido and Aeneas: ________.

How can you tell when the aria portion of the final scene of Dido and Aeneas has begun?

"O magnum mysterium" was written for:

The rich array of ostinato forms is displayed up and down the continent of:

Briefly describe how this composition unfolds,particularly the appearance and presence of the ostinato.

Points of imitation in vocal music led to the development of the ________ in instrumental music.

Explain how seventeenth-century Venetian composers expanded on the echoing semichoir technique of sixteenth-century composers.

Purcell wrote the first English examples of which genre?

In the opening recitative of The Coronation of Poppea,there is:

In the Baroque period,rhythm became more:

In which section of the final scene of Dido and Aeneas do you hear a ground bass?