Music Improvisation

Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and ___________ technique.

• Artistic

• Instrumental

• Musical

• Ornamentation

The first detailed information on improvisation technique appears in ninth-century treatises instructing singers on how to add another melody to a pre-existent liturgical chant, in a style called _______________.

• basso continuo

• cantus firmus

• organum

Invention of music printing at the began in this period.

• Baroque

• Medieval

• Renaissance

A cantus firmus, a practice found both in church music and in popular _______ music.

• dance

• instrumental

• ornamental

It is a creative invention, fusion, or advancement in music that plays an important role during the Western Classical times.

• experimantation

• improvisation

• ornamentation

It is a period wherein composers were more open to musical experimentation.

• Baroque

• Medieval

• Renaissance

It is a musical device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound.

• Musical bass

• Musical instrument

• Musical ornamentation

Ornamentation began during this period.

• Baroque

• Medieval

• Renaissance