Composers
The leading composer of Latin oratorios was:
Giacomo Carissimi
The Paris journal Mercure Gallant referred to the following composer and performer as "the marvel of our century":
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
What musical genre, prominent in the Lutheran tradition, consisted of musical settings based on biblical narratives?
Historia
A sacred composition with one or more soloists accompanied by organ continuo and often one or two violins was known as a:
Sacred Concerto
What was the first volume of sacred music printed with basso continuo?
Cento concerti ecclesiastici
Which composer served as a teacher, composer, conductor, and superintendent of musical instruments at the Pio Ospedale della Pietà from 1703 to 1740?
Vivaldi
Which collection did Bach compile to demonstrate the possibilities of playing in all keys in nearly equal temperament?
The Well-Tempered Clavier
The most common instrumentation in the late seventeenth century for both church and chamber sonatas was:
two treble instruments with continuo
The majority of seventeenth-century French dances are in the following form:
Binary form
What collection by Heinrich Schütz contains concerted Latin motets for various small combinations of voices and instruments?
Symphoniae sacrae
The best-known composer of the early eighteenth century was:
Vivaldi
The Concert spirituel, a public concert series established in 1725, was held in:
Paris
By the end of the seventeenth century, the following term was used to refer to compositions in imitative counterpoint:
Fugue (before it was ricercare!)
Extended episodes that appeared at the center or the conclusion of each act of seventeenth-century French operas were known as:
Divertissements
The following French dance, which originated in the British Isles, was usually composed in a compound meter with wide melodic leaps and lively triplets:
Gigue
A musical interlude on a pastoral, allegorical, or mythological subject performed between acts of a play is a:
Intermezzo
What opera established Rameau as a composer?
Hippolyte et Aricie
The form of the French Overture typically consists of:
two sections, each repeated
Who criticized Claudio Monteverdi's madrigal "Cruda Amarilli" for needlessly breaking the rules of counterpoint?
Giovanni Maria Artusi
What was the only major musical genre of the eighteenth century in which Bach did not compose?
Opera
The concitato genre, a style characterized by rapid reiteration of a single note, was devised by:
Monteverdi
The use of bar lines to demarcate measures first occurred in the:
mid-seventeenth century
An Anglican musical form that consists of music for portions of Morning Prayer, Holy Communion, and Evening Prayer was called a(n):
A Service
The majority of Corelli's church sonatas consist of ___ movements.
4
Handel's most important innovation in the oratorio is his heightened use of the:
Chorus