Choose the Correct Options for Musical Instruments Flashcards

Hande's Messiam is an example of
1. Oratorio
2. Opera
3 Musical Theater
4 Song

Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no
1. Orchestral accompaniment
2. acting, scenery, or costumes
3. Choral part
4 Vocal Soloists

A large- Scale compostion for chorus, vocal solists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text, is called
1. Chorale
2. Aria
3. Recitative
4 Oratoro

Bach created masterpieces in every baroque form excpet
1 opera
2 concerto.
3. fugue
4 sonata

Vivaldi was famous and influetial as a virtuso
1. Harpischordist
2 opera singer
3 lutenist
4 violinsit

Corelli's tro sonata in a minor, op.3, no. 10, is scored for
1two violins
2 solo violin and orchestra
3 two violins and basso continuo
4 piano, violin and cello

Dido and Aeneas, which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an english text, was composed by
1. Claudio Monteverdi
2 Henry Purcell
3 George Frideric Handel
4 Jeremiah Clarke

An____ is an orchestral composition performed befor the curtain rises on a dramatic work.
1. overature
2. Aria
3. Opera
4 Opening

_____refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech
1. Aria
2. Duet
3. Recitative
4 Ensemble

A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called a/an
1. aria
2. Duet
3. Ensemble.
4 Solo

An___ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes and action
1Overture
2. Opera
3. Aria
4 Ensemble

A polyphonic compostion based on one main theme is the
1. Subject
2. Concerto
3 Episode
4 Fugue

Which of the following statements is not true
1. Concerto grosso normally involves two to four soloist, and anywhere from eight
2 A concerto grosso normal involves a large group
3 The first and last movements of concerti grossi

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the
1 Clavichord
2. Harpischord
3 Piano
4 Accordion

Terraced dynamics refers to
1 A gradual change from soft to loud
2. A gradual change from loud to soft.
3 The sudden alternation from one dynamic level to another
4 Dynamics that are not written in the music but added by the performer