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Musicians date the Baroque period from about _____ to about ____. |
| | A) | 1600 |
| | B) | 1810 |
| | C) | 1750 |
| | D) | 1900 |
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The term baroque means distorted or irregular. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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Eighteenth-century artists described seventeenth-century art as "baroque" because they found it to be |
| | A) | refined and full of repose. |
| | B) | fascinating in its lack of drama. |
| | C) | strange and impassioned. |
| | D) | so similar to their own work. |
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All of the following ideas are characteristic of the Baroque period except |
| | A) | vivid contrasts and contradictions. |
| | B) | affirmation of both sides of almost any question. |
| | C) | lack of interest in religion. |
| | D) | an increase in the importance of secular life. |
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All of the following occurred during the seventeenth century except |
| | A) | the opening of the first public opera house. |
| | B) | the presentation of the first public concerts. |
| | C) | the increasing reliance of Baroque composers upon a small, aristocratic audience to accept their works. |
| | D) | the increasing trend among composers to seek public approval. |
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Handel's career as an opera composer made him more dependent on |
| | A) | employment at the royal court. |
| | B) | support from the church. |
| | C) | the Florentine Camerata. |
| | D) | the support of the public. |
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The quality and quantity of Bach's secular concertos, suites, toccatas, and fugues reflect the increasing importance of secular music in the Baroque period. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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During the seventeenth century, there were great strides made in scientific research, yet superstition was rampant and the belief in witchcraft, alchemy, and astrology firm. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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The long and terrible religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries left central Europe largely Protestant and the northern countries largely Roman Catholic. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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| 10 | |
In England, the Anglican church harassed the Puritans, who fled to Holland and then sailed to the New World in 1620 to become America's Pilgrims. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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The first book printed in America (in 1640) was a psalter, the |
| | A) | Bay Song Book |
| | B) | Mayflower Psalm Book |
| | C) | Bay Psalm Book |
| | D) | Pilgrim Song Book |
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The great artist Michelangelo died in 1564 on the same day that the scientific man of reason, ______________, was born. |
| | A) | Isaac Newton |
| | B) | Galileo |
| | C) | William Harvey |
| | D) | Leonardo da Vinci |
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Galileo's father was an influential member of the Florentine Camerata. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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Galileo's discoveries about the solar system |
| | A) | contradicted the teaching of the Roman Catholic church. |
| | B) | aroused the attention of the Inquisition. |
| | C) | were rejected by Galileo himself under the threat of torture. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
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On the day in 1642 when the Italian Galileo died, _______________ was born. |
| | A) | William Harvey |
| | B) | Michelangelo |
| | C) | Don Quixote |
| | D) | Isaac Newton |
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Like Galileo, Newton was fascinated with all of the following except |
| | A) | the relationship between the planets and stars. |
| | B) | the effects of gravity. |
| | C) | studies of the pendulum, which led to methods of measuring time in music. |
| | D) | the invention of the metronome in 1816. |
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The art of the Baroque is filled with each of the following except |
| | A) | tension. |
| | B) | drive. |
| | C) | peace. |
| | D) | drama. |
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All of the following are characteristics of Baroque art except |
| | A) | the direction of the viewer's eye is often directed off the canvas. |
| | B) | sculpted figures are seething with tension and strain. |
| | C) | buildings project a sense of repose and stability. |
| | D) | elaborate and complex decorative ornamentation. |
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Seventeenth-century painters shared with contemporary scientists a fascination with the properties and effects of |
| | A) | color. |
| | B) | light. |
| | C) | rhythm. |
| | D) | harmony. |
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| 20 | |
The following are all famous Baroque artists except |
| | A) | Hals. |
| | B) | Rubens. |
| | C) | Vermeer. |
| | D) | Moliere. |
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Although the Church, the courts, and the city-state governments remained their primary employers, Baroque composers resisted submission to the taste and will of their patrons. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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Baroque musical style was affected by each of the following except |
| | A) | secular music becoming as important as sacred. |
| | B) | as many fine instrumental compositions as vocal pieces. |
| | C) | homophonic texture becoming more important than polyphony. |
| | D) | contrasts of timbre, alternation of free and metered rhythms, and abrupt changes of dynamic levels. |
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| 23 | |
All of the following were Baroque-era multimovement works except |
| | A) | the dance suite. |
| | B) | the fugue. |
| | C) | the concerto. |
| | D) | the sonata. |
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According to the doctrine of affections, only one mood was to be expressed within one composition or within one movement of a multimovement work. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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During the Baroque period, the Renaissance style of four or more melodic lines was replaced by the preference for a melody in the highest voice or voices, supported by a strong bass line, with the disposition of the inner voices left largely to improvisation. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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During the Baroque period, composers developed the ___________ system, in which every note of the major or minor scale bears a specific relationship to every other note. |
| | A) | modal |
| | B) | tonal |
| | C) | textural |
| | D) | rhythmic |
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In the Baroque system of tonality, all of the pitches of a major or minor scale were specifically related to the first note of the scale, or the |
| | A) | subdominant. |
| | B) | dominant. |
| | C) | mediant. |
| | D) | tonic. |
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The increasing use of the triad, built upon all the degrees of the scale, gave a sense of stability and harmonic direction to tonal music not inherent in modality. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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