Higher Music Home Listening Questions – Baroque
PLEASE HAND IN YOUR HOME LISTENING HOMEWORK ON FRIDAY 2ND OCTOBER
Answers should be completed at the back of your notes jotter.
EXCERPT A
Listen to Winter, a movement from one of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons solo concerti. You should
listen from the beginning of the track up to 3 minutes 35 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu6Hr9kd-U0
1. Winter from Vivaldi is a solo concerto for which instrument?
2. Name the dynamic feature which starts at 1 minute 10 seconds.
EXCERPT B
Listen to a Concerto Grosso by Bach. You should listen from the beginning of the track up to
2 minutes 18 seconds.
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F Major.
Web address: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSRIDtwsfM
1. Which instruments form the concertino?
2. Which instruments play the basso continuo?
EXCERPT C
Listen to an excerpt from Handel’s Solomon (Oratorio).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J1qJCJMpB8
1. Which concept describes the style of singing in the opening section?
2. At what time does this style of singing stop and the music for the duet start?
3. Name the cadence at 31 seconds
[Please turn over for Excerpts D and E]
EXCERPT D
Listen to an excerpt from a Vivaldi aria. The track starts at 53 seconds. You should listen to
the track until minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zQX2XqAE8c
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Name the voice.
Describe the word setting at 1 minute 33 seconds.
Name three instruments that play the accompaniment.
Name the ornament at 2 minutes 39 seconds.
EXCERPT E
Listen to an excerpt from Zadok the Priest by Handel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiXgOQ9_-RI
1. Name the concept that describes the violin part.
2. Is the opening choral section at 1 minute 33 seconds polyphonic or homophonic and
which percussion instrument maintains the crochet beat?
3. What does the trumpet play at 1 minute 44 seconds.
4. Describe the word setting at 2 minutes and 57 seconds.
5. Name the final cadence.