QUIZ 2

Question 1 (2 points) The primary goal of the Florentine Camerata was: Student response: Correct Student Answer Choices Response Response a. reestablishing Florence as the primary center for Italian opera. b. creating a movement for the prima prattica style of music. c. building the first public opera house before Venice and Naples did. d. rediscovering the expressive power of music based on Classical ideals. e. None of these.

Question 2

(2 points)

The prevailing musical style in the time of the Camerata (late sixteenth century) was known as: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. the Greco-Roman style. b. the Neapolitan style. c. the Franco-Flemish style. d. the neo-Baroque style. e. None of these.

Question 3

(2 points)

During the 16th century, madrigal poetry served as a vehicle for musical innovation and experimentation because madrigals: Student response: Correct Student Answer Choices Response Response a. were written for the express purpose of being set to music. b. utilized iambic pentameter in a style similar to Shakespearean sonnets. c. were set to music which attempted to fully reflect the emotional content of the text. d. All of the above. e. a and c.

Question 4

(2 points)

A compositional technique favored by madrigal composers in which the composer attempted to precisely mirror the meaning and emotional content of a textual passage came to be known as:

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Student Response

Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. text imitation. musical mimicry. the prima practica. All of the above. None of the above.

General feedback: This technique came to be known as "word-painting". Question 5 (2 points)

The new style of writing music for madrigals--which featured the solo singer rather than a choir singing multiple parts--became known as: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. opera. monody. the new madrigal style. recitative. None of these.

Question 6

(2 points)

The role of the harpsichord in the new style - filling in the harmonic "gaps" beneath the solo singer - became known as: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. oratorio. secunda practica. aria accompaniato. continuo. None of these.

Question 7

(2 points)

The new music dramas which employed monody came to be called: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. opera oratorio cantata sonata concerto grosso

Question 8

(2 points)

In the year 1600, the birth of the Baroque Period in music, two composers - Caccini and Peri composed the first new music dramas. Their dramatic plots were based on the legend of:

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Student Response

Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. Zeus. Apollo. Orpheus. Favola. Romeo.

Question 9

(2 points)

In the year 1607, the greatest composer of the early Baroque also composed a music drama based on this same legend, a landmark work which fully realized the potential of the new style the Camerata had developed. This great composer was: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. Caccini. Corelli. Monteverdi. Mostaccioli. None of these.

General feedback: If you answered "d" you must be hungry! [Mostaccioli is an Italian pasta dish]. Question 10 (2 points)

Besides the famous music drama he composed in 1607, this same great early Baroque composer is also noted for the composition of nine collections of: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. operas madrigals monodies concertos sonatas

Question 11

(2 points)

What important musical event took place in Venice in 1637? Student response: Correct Student Answer Choices Response Response a. the first performance of a monody b. the first performance of a madrigal c. the first performance of an opera d. the first public opera house opened e. None of these.

Question 12

(2 points)

Two important composers of the second generation of the Baroque - active from about 1640 to 1680 - were:

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Student Response

Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. Caccini and Cucci Cavalli and Cesti Cesti and Caccini Corelli and Cavalli Cucci and Corelli

General feedback: If you selected "a" or "e", we want to know: are you getting adequate rest? "Cucci" rhymes with the name of a renowned Italian fashion designer, but other than that he or she doesn't exist, at least not in Trip 2. Doctor G says: get a good nite's rest before taking quizzes! :) Question 13 (2 points)

Unstaged dramatic works based on Biblical themes and performed during the Lenten season (when the Church forbade opera performance) came to be known as: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. operas. b. cantatas. c. oratorios. d. dramatis sacrae (sacred plays). e. chorales.

Question 14

(2 points)

The first great composer of these unstaged dramatic works mentioned in the preceding question (#13) was: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. Cavalli. Corelli. Handel. Bach. None of these.

General feedback: Though less well-known today than Handel, the honor of the FIRST greatest oratorio composer goes to Carissimi. Carissimi's works are written in Latin--the official ecclesiastical language of the Roman Catholic Church until 1965-whereas Handel's are in English, written to appeal to the English audiences of his time, and also more accessible to modern English-speaking audiences. Question 15 (2 points)

The terms "da chiesa" and "da camera" both refer to types of: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. the Lenten oratorio. b. the early Baroque opera. c. the Baroque Sonata. d. the late Baroque concerto. e. styles of madrigal singing.

Question 16

(2 points)

An important form of Baroque instrumental music was the _____ Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. canzonetta. madrigal. concerto grosso. instrumental monody. recitative.

Question 17

(2 points)

The composer who helped establish this new instrumental form mentioned in the previous question (#16), publishing a collection of these works late in life, was: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices

a. b. c. d. e.

Vivaldi. Corelli. Vini. Ragazzi. Canzoni.

General feedback: Vivaldi came after Corelli, who preceded him by a generation and established the concerto grosso with his collections published late in life. If you picked "c", "d" or "e" you were napping, but still you're not in bad company. Put them together and they comprise one of the most admonitions to pleasure in history: "Vini, Ragazzi e Canzoni!" translates to "Wine, Women and Song!". :)

Question 18

(2 points)

The composer who wrote over 500 works in the form mentioned in #16 was:

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Correct Response

Student Response

Answer Choices

a. b. c. d. e.

Corelli. Caccini. Verdi. Vivaldi. Tartini.

Question 19

(2 points)

Today, the best-known and most popular work in this same instrumental form is known in Italian as "Le quattre stagioni"; its title in English is: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices

a. b. c. d. e.

The Four Stations. The Four Seasons. The Three Stooges. The Cat's Pajamas. None of these.

Question 20

(2 points)

The composer of the work just discussed in the preceding question (#19) was: Student response: Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. c. d. e. Boccelli. Bottacelli. Barbarolli. Barbini. None of these.

General feedback:

Of course, the answer is Vivaldi. Hey, you've just completed your first "real" quiz (Trip 1 was introductory). Congratulations! Travel on to Trip 3 for more great music!

Total score:

38 / 40 = 95.0%