Take the quiz below. Click the link at the end for the answers.

1) What is a lautenwerk?
a) a lute
b) a guitar
c) a keyboard instrument built and played like a harpsichord, though with gut strings
d) an Italian keyboard instrument

2) The E minor Suite for Lautenwerk
a) is modeled on Bach’s English suites
b) is modeled on Bach’s French suites
c) stands alone among Bach’s works in its arrangement of movements

3) The suite begins with a 2-part:
a) allemande
b) courante
c) prelude
d) fantasia

4) The first movement is similar in gesture and form to this genre:
a) a French overture
b) a fugue
c) an Italian-style overture
d) a chorale cantata

5) The bourreé is built
a) on two basic motives
b) on one basic motive
c) with entirely new material in each phrase
d) using the same motives found in the prelude

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©2003 Carol Traupman-Carr.