Musical Examples
Instruments
Form
Opera
Primary Sources
100
The composer of this piece of music: [Example 1]
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
100
The instrument most associated with fanfares during the Baroque period.
What is a trumpet?
100
The name of a musical form diagrammed as:
A A' A'' A''' A'''' [etc.]
What is variation form?
100
An opera in which a son plans to avenge his father's death.
What is Handel's Giulio Cesare?
100
The author of this: I have in accordance with Your Highness’s most gracious orders taken the liberty of rendering my most humble duty to Your Royal Highness with the present Concertos, which I have adapted to several instruments; begging Your Highness most humbly not to judge their imperfection with the rigor of that discriminating and sensitive taste, which everyone knows Him to have for musical works, but rather to take into benign Consideration the profound respect and the most humble obedience which I thus attempt to show Him
Who is J.S. Bach?
200
The composer of this piece of music: [Example 2]
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
200
The instrument for which Bach wrote 2 volumes of preludes and fugues.
What is the Klavier?
200
The name of a form diagrammed as:
A B A'
What is da capo form?
200
An opera in which a messenger delivers bad news.
What is Monteverdi's L'Orfeo?
200
The author of this: Some will wonder at this, not believing that there is any practice other than that taught by Zarlino. But let them be assured concerning consonances and dissonances that there is a different way of considering them from that already determined, one that defends the modern manner of composition with the assent of reason and the senses. I wanted to say this both so that the expression “second practice” would not be appropriated by others and so that men of intellect might meanwhile consider other second thoughts concerning harmony. And have faith that the modern composer builds on foundations of truth.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
300
The composer of this piece of music: [Example 3]
Who is Arcangelo Corelli?
300
The instrument that "goes rogue" in Brandenberg Concerto #5.
What is the harpsichord?
300
The name of a musical form diagrammed as:
A B A' C A'' D [etc.]
What is ritornello form?
300
An opera in which a lover becomes an Empress.
What is Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea?
300
What this image shows: 
What is dance notation?
400
The composer of this piece of music [Example 4]
Who is Carlo Gesualdo?
400
The instrument for which Vivaldi wrote the most concertos after the violin.
What is the bassoon?
400
The name of a form in which different stanzas of text are set to the same music.
What is strophic form?
400
An opera in which there will be lots of bubbles.
What is The Seasons?
400
The kind of text where these rhymes could be found:
If that no flat be set in B,
Then in that place standeth your Mi.
But if your B alone is flat,
Then E is Mi be be sure of that.
What is a pedagogical text or a musical treatise?
500
The composer of this piece of music: [Example 5]
Who is George Friedrich Handel?
500
The instrument that Arcangelo Corelli played.
What is the violin?
500
The name of a musical form which contains a subject, an answer, and a countersubject, as well as episodes.
What is a fugue?
500
An opera in which a queen, witches, gods, and men may have all been played by school girls at its premiere.
What is Purcell's Dido and Aeneas?
500
The city depicted in this picture:
What is London?