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What is Baroque?
1) Most musicians
use the following dates to indicate the musical era known as the Baroque:
c) 1600-1750
2) The word
"Baroque" comes from a Portuguese term meaning
b) a misshapen pearl
3) In the
Baroque, the bass was played by
c) a group of musicians called the basso continuo
4) Dynamics,
which is volume in music, were:
a) rarely written by the composer, but were indicated by using more or
fewer musicians
5) Fast movements
or pieces in the Baroque often:
a) had a feeling of perpetual motion
6) The Doctrine
of Affections said that:
c) every individual piece of music should reflect only one emotion
7) The bass
line was often so active and driven that was called a:
a) walking bass line
8) J.S. Bach
is considered by many to be the greatest composer of
a) the German Baroque
9) The primary
musical texture in a Baroque piece of music was:
b) polyphonic, meaning there were many equal and independent parts simultaneously
10) The Baroque
orchestra:
c) was dominated by the strings, but often also used woodwinds, brass,
and sometimes timpani