Question

ASAP!!

1. Name and describe three major elements of composition commonly found in Baroque music. Answer: (5 points) Score

2. Choose one composer: Bach, Vivaldi, or Handel. Describe in detail the contributions that he made to the Baroque period. Be sure to include important musical compositions, Baroque characteristics commonly found in his works, and primary elements of his compositional styles. Answer: (3 points) Score

3. Name six major opera forms from the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and/or twentieth centuries. Answer: (6 points) Score

4. Choose one opera form to describe in detail. Include the following information:
• When was it popular? • What were the major characteristics of this form? • What specifically makes this form of opera unique or different form other forms? • Which major composers wrote this type of opera? Answer:

Answer 1

in explanation

Step-by-step explanation:

1

a)The Basso Continuo (Figured Bass).

b)One mood throughout the entire piece.

c)Important String sections

2

Handel had a striking ability to depict human character musically in a single scene or aria, a gift used with great dramatic power in his operas and oratorios. Though the bulk of his music was vocal, Handel was nevertheless one of the great instrumental composers of the late Baroque era.

3

a)Bel canto.

b)Grand opera.

c)Tragedie en musique.

d)Opera comique.

e)Opera buffa.

f)Verismo

5

verismo, (Italian: “realism”), literary realism as it developed in Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its primary exponents were the Sicilian novelists Luigi Capuana and Giovanni Verga. The realist movement arose in Europe after the French Revolution and the realist influence reached Capuana and Verga particularly through the writings of Balzac and Zola in France and of the scapigliatura milanese (see scapigliatura, “Milanese bohemianism”) group in Italy. Verismo’s overriding aim was the objective presentation of life, usually of the lower classes, using direct, unadorned language, explicit descriptive detail, and realistic dialogue.