Music History I Unit 3 Exam Review Sheet Fall 2024 PDF

**Unit 3 Exam -- Review Sheet**  MUSC 362 - Music History I  Fall 2024  Instructor: Dr. Spencer Brand    **Exam Structure:**  10 Listening "Drop the Needle" Questions -- 2 points each (20 points total)  10 Short Answer Questions -- 2 points each (20 points total)  3 Short Essay Questions (1...

**Unit 3 Exam -- Review Sheet**  MUSC 362 - Music History I  Fall 2024  Instructor: Dr. Spencer Brand    **Exam Structure:**  10 Listening "Drop the Needle" Questions -- 2 points each (20 points total)  10 Short Answer Questions -- 2 points each (20 points total)  3 Short Essay Questions (1 paragraph) -- 10 points each (30 points total)  1 Long Essay Questions (3 paragraphs) -- 30 points     **List of Key Terms:** Become familiar with the following terms, people, and compositions (not in the Listening List) that were discussed during lectures. These are all topics that may appear on the exam. Take notes of when each key person was alive and when specific compositions were completed or premiered. Keep in mind how these key terms are related to each other.  [Reduced Key Terms (possible answers for short answer questions):] Baroque -- The Florentine Camerata -- Libretto -- *Dafne* -- Ritornello -- Recitative style -- *Gradus ad Parnassum* - Cantata -- Toccata -- *Tabulatura nova* -- Sonata -- *Sonata pian\' e forte* -- Binary form -- Stadtpfeifer -- Da capo aria -- Divertissements -- Masques -- *L'art de toucher le clavecin* -- *Traité de l'harmonie* -- Recitativo accompangnato -- *Orgelbüchlein* -- Gottfried Reiche -- [Important Composers (for your reference):] Claudio Monteverdi Giulio Caccini Girolamo Mei Ottavio Rinuccini Jacopo Peri Francesca Caccini Francesco Cavalli Barbara Strozzi Giovanni Gabrieli Alessandro Grandi Giacomo Carissimi Heinrich Schütz Girolamo Frescobaldi Biagio Marini Dieterich Buxtehude Denis Gaultier Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre Arcangelo Corelli Alessandro Scarlatti Jean-Baptiste Lully Henry Purcell Giuseppe Torelli George Philipp Telemann Antonio Vivaldi François Couperin Jean-Philippe Rameau George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach **Reduced Listening List:** These are the pieces that could appear on the "drop the needle" portion of the exam. All these pieces were played during lecture. You should be able to provide the composer's name and the composition title (must include work/opus numbers). A bonus point will be awarded for the correct quarter-century it was composed (ex: 1600-1625).  Jacopo Peri - *L\'Euridice* (1600-1625); NAWM 73 Monteverdi - *L\'Orfeo* (1600-1625); NAWM 74 Barbara Strozzi - *Lagrime mie* (1650-1675); NAWM 77 Giovanni Gabrieli - *In ecclesiis* (1600-1625); NAWM 78 Giacomo Carissimi - *Historia di Jephte* (1625-1650); NAWM 80 Heinrich Schutz - *Saul, Saul was verfolgst du mich* (1625-1650); NAWM 81 Girolamo Frescobaldi - Toccata No. 3 (1600-1625); NAWM 82 Biagio Marini - *Sonata IV per il violino per sonar don due corde* (1625-1650); NAWM 84 Dieterich Buxtehude - Praeludium in E Major, BuxWV 141 (1675-1700); NAWM 97 Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre - Suite No. 3 in A Minor (1675-1700); NAWM 89 Arcangelo Corelli - Trio Sonata in D Major, Op. 3, No. 2 (1675-1700); NAWM 96 Alessandro Scarlatti - *La Griselda* (1700-1725); NAWM 95 Jean-Baptiste Lully -- *Armide,* overture (1675-1700); NAWM 85 Jean-Baptiste Lully - *Te Deum* (1675-1700); NAWM 86 Henry Purcell - *Dido and Aeneas* (1675-1700); NAWM 90 Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 3, No. 6 (1700-1725); NAWM 98 Jean-Philippe Rameau - *Hippolyte et Aricie* (1700-1725); NAWM 100 Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 (1700-1725); NAWM 102 Johann Sebastian Bach - *St. Matthew Passion* (1725-1750); NAWM 106 George Frideric Handel - *Giulio Cesare* (1700-1725); NAWM 107 **Possible Essay Topics:** the following is a list of potential topics that could appear as essays on the exam. The answer lengths for these essay prompts may vary in length depending on the phrasing of the question, and the exam prompt will request a specific length. One of the following potential topics may even be split into two or more shorter essays.  1. Discuss the development of Opera during the during the Baroque era, starting at the earliest operas all the way to the operas of George Frideric Handel. Your discussion should include the essential elements that led to the operas of Monteverdi (the doctrine of affections, the Florentine Camerata, the concertato medium, basso continuo, etc.), the important developments in operas of Scarlatti, Lully, and Purcell at the end of the 17^th^ century (the da capo aria, the tragédie en musique, the divertissement, etc.), and finally address the crossing of international styles in the operas of Rameau and Handel near the end of the era. 2. Discuss the differences between Bach and Handel in terms of their compositional output (how it was driven), and their popularity during the times they were alive. Discuss the types of principal works that make up their output, the reasons for their compositional output (based on the patronage), the types of audiences they composed for, and at least compositional example for each composer demonstrating these differences. 3. Consider the changes vocal music that can be observed in Monteverdi's madrigals in his last four books of Madrigals, and how it served as a model for Barbara Strozzi's Cantatas. Your discussion should address Monteverdi's concerted madrigals from his last four books of madrigals, and the Italian Cantata from Barbara Strozzi and how it evolved from the concerted madrigal. 4. How did Instrumental music evolve over the course the course of the baroque period? Consider the development of the Sonata, the concerto, and various keyboard works. Discuss where each these types of music stemmed from, the forms of the works (or movements), the representative pieces of these genres, and important composers.