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Question 1

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At the time Monteverdi wrote the opera The Coronation of Poppea, what type of opera houses were opening in Venice?

  

Public

  

Private

  

Monastic

  

Symphonic

 

Question 2

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Despite being composed in England, Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas has an Italian text.

  

True

  

False

 

 

Question 3

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Early opera was originally designed to reflect the manner in which seventeenth-century aristocrats sang their conversations to each other on a daily basis.

  

True

  

False

 

 

Question 4

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Monteverdi was one of the first great composers of opera.

  

True

  

False

 

 

Question 5

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The libretto for Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas, is based on _____.

  

the Odyssey

  

the Iliad

  

the Aeneid

  

the Metamorphoses

 

Question 6

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The masque was an English entertainment that combined music, poetry, and dance.

  

True

  

False

 

 

Question 7

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The new Italian opera was embraced in all western European countries.

  

True

   

False

 

 

Question 8

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Which musical style best describes the opening line "Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me"?

  

Recitative

  

Aria

  

Chorus

  

Overture

 

Question 9

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Which of the following does NOT describe Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas?

  

It was first performed at a girls’ school in London.

  

It is based on Virgil’s Aeneid.

  

Dido and Aeneas live happily ever after.

  

The opera ends tragically.

 

Question 10

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Why does Dido sing a lament at the end of Purcell’s opera?

  

Aeneas has been murdered.

  

Aeneas has left her.

  

Aeneas was lost at sea.

 

Aeneas discovered that Dido was actually his sister.