How is word painting different from program music? Question 1 options:

Word painting only applies to a small part of the music where as program music is the entire piece.

Word painting involves art and music where as program music is only related to music.

Word painting was used only in the Baroque where as program music was used only in the Renaissance.

Question 3 (2 points)
Why wouldn’t you find a viola de gamba playing in a modern orchestra?

Question 3 options:

The viola de gamba was too difficult to play so musicians stopped learning and performing music on the instrument

The luthier that made viola de gambas refused to share the plans for how the instrument was made so only a limited amount of the instruments were made

The viola de gamba was no longer popular after the Baroque era so composers stopped writing parts for it

Question 4 (2 points)
Which of the following does NOT belong?

Question 4 options:

Harpsichord

Viola de Gamba

Violin

Cello

Question 5 (2 points)
How is a Fugue different from a Cantata?

Question 5 options:

Fugues are part of the Baroque dance suite where as cantatas are part of oratorios.

Fugues are written to be played on an instrument where as cantatas are mostly sung.

Fugues are written for beginner musicians where as cantatas are written for professional musicians.

Fugues are written as chamber music where as cantatas are written as orchestral music.

Question 6 (2 points)
What is the difference between chamber music and orchestral music?

Question 6 options:

Chamber music is played before an opera begins where as orchestral music is played during the opera performance

Chamber music is written for a small group of musicians where as orchestral music is written for a large group of musicians

Chamber music is written for instrumentalists where was orchestral music is written for vocalists

Question 7 (2 points)
Why do we know more about Baroque composers’ lives in comparison to composers from the Middle Ages or Renaissance?

Question 7 options:

Overall, there was less war so less was destroyed during the Baroque Era

Better records were kept and more information was preserved during the Baroque Era

Composers in the Baroque Era wrote more letters to loved ones

Music notation was not standardized until after the Renaissance

Question 8 (2 points)
Which of the following Baroque compositional techniques does Vivaldi use in The Four Seasons?

Question 8 options:

terraced dynamics and cantatas

program music and solo concerto

ornamentation and oratorio

concerto grosso and fugue

Question 9 (2 points)
Why did J. S. Bach compose a significantly larger body of music than most composers?

Question 9 options:

He lived to be 83, which was significant during that time, and composed until the day he died

He held several jobs that required him to write new music almost every single week

Most of his music was finished by students who studied with him so he could compose multiple pieces at one time

Question 10 (2 points)
Why was Barbara Strozzi significant during the Baroque period?

Question 10 options:

Strozzi composed only secular music in a time where most composers wrote only sacred music.

Strozzi composed over 1,000 works, the most expansive collection of music from any Baroque composer.

Strozzi was the first composer to use ornaments and trills in secular vocal music.

Strozzi was the first female composer to publish under her name alone without using a pen name.

Question 11 (2 points)
Why did Handel switch from writing operas to oratorios?

Question 11 options:

Operas were expensive to produce and became less popular towards the end of his lifetime

Operas were not written in English so he stopped writing them when he moved to London

Handel felt that operas did not fully showcase his music writing abilities

Question 12 (2 points)
Which of the following is the best example of a modern day leitmotif?

Question 12 options:

The music playing behind a child’s cereal commercial is so catchy that it’s stuck in your head all day

The song that plays in the credits at the end of a show on TV is a pop song from 5 years ago

In the movie Star Wars, Darth Vader’s theme song plays before he gets on screen

Question 14 (2 points)
If an audience laughs often throughout a performance, what kind of opera is most likely being performed?

Question 14 options:

Opera Buffa

Verismo

Opera Seria

Grand Opera

Question 16 (2 points)
Which musical time period did Opera become highly popular and spread like wildfire throughout Europe?

Question 16 options:

Classical

21st Century

Romantic

Baroque