Baroque Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Baroque EraBaroque Definition - correct answer a jeweler's term for large pearls of irregular shape. Baroque Period - correct answer Time period: "Early" Baroque c. 1600 - 170 Baroque Rhythm - correct answer Single or similar rhythm often heard throughout piece or major segment of piece Baroque Meter - correct answer Emphasized •strong & weak beats played in clear & concise manner -Systematized •bar lines regularly used; strong beat at bar lines Baroque Texture - correct a...

Music Appreciation (Baroque). The vocal style in opera that imitates the natural infliction of speech is called: - correct answer recitative It was through the musical innovations of the ______________ that opera was born - correct answer Florentine Camerata The text of an opera is called: - correct answer the libretto Who is best viewed as the first master of opera? - correct answer Monteverdi A type of English entertainment combining music, poetry, and dance was called: - correct ...

ITALIAN BAROQUEBY THE END OF THE 17th CENTURY: baroque - correct answer BY THE END OF THE ____ CENTURY: -Some say it is derived from a Portuguese word to describe asymmetrical or irregularly shaped pearls. IN THE 18TH CENTURY: Baroque - correct answer it implies excessive freedom and a departure from classical rules of order, simplicity, clarity, symmetry. Common to all these derivations or meanings is the implication that Baroque means imbalance and excessive complication. BY LATE 19TH ...

Baroque The Ornate AgeOverview of Baroque Period - correct answer Baroque art () succeeded in marrying the advanced techniques and grand scale of the Renaissance to the emotion, intensity, drama and drama of Mannerism, thus making the Baroque era the most sumptuous and ornate in the history of art. While the term "baroque" is often used negatively to mean over-wrought and ostentatious, the seventeenth century not only produced such exceptional artistic geniuses as Rembrandt and Velazquez but e...

Baroque a play set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action - correct answer opera baroque suites frequently begin with a - correct answer french overture a polyphonic composite based on one theme, a cornerstone of baroque music in the - correct answer fugue baroque tri sonatas usually involve ___ performers - correct answer four a __ in a singer with a very low range and powerful voice, who usually takes roles calling for dignity - correct answ...

BaroqueSelect the three countries whose cultures most influenced Bach's musical style. - correct answer Italy Germany France Select all that apply Select the three principal ways of varying the subject of a fugue. - correct answer Presenting the subject in diminution Presenting the subject in inversion Presenting the subject retrograde Select all that apply Select all the responsibilities of the music director of a church. - correct answer Training choristers for their performan...

Baroque Art When - correct answer 17th - 18th C Spain where is the sources for this art - correct answer Renaissance; it becomes even *more classical* and MORE realistic! Classist Trend - correct answer more about *drawing* Realist Trend - correct answer More an obvious interest in representing things in a *theatrical* way dramatic light and shade *INITIATED BY CARAVAGGIO* Caravaggio-- TENEBRISM - correct answer dark painting with *really strong; theater spotlight* ONE ligh...

BaroqueThe baroque period () was also known as - correct answer the age of absolutism Both the middle class and scientists helped influence and develop baroque style, some of the influences are, - correct answer churches included many theatrical qualities of the fine arts to appeal to the masses, scientific discoveries led to new inventions and industry, and the merchants commissioned art work Early Italian baroque composers created ___, which is a drama sung to orchestral accompaniment. -...

Baroque - correct answer Began as a term of "disapproval" -Jewelers used this term to describe oddly colored or misshapen pearls -Today it is no longer a negative term Life in the Baroque Era - correct answer -Was a period of absolute monarchs -The political instability and wars that had dominated Europe for so many years gave way to a period of international peace and economic expansion -Many political repressions, punitive taxation. and gross social inequities, but there were no maj...

Baroque Period Baroque style fills space with ___ and ___ - correct answer Action, movement Painters, sculptors, and architects became interested in forming a ___ ___ - correct answer Total illusion The ___ was enormously rich and powerful during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - correct answer Aristocracy Baroque period is known as the... because ... - correct answer Age of absolutism Rulers exercised absolute power over subjects During the Baroque period, Europe was spli...