Quiz 8 Baroque Music: Genres

What type of instruments were popular during the Baroque period?

• Keyboards

• Horns

• Strings

• Sackbut

What was the popular size of the instrumental ensembles during the Baroque Period?

• Small Ensembles

• Medium sized-ensembles

• Large Ensembles

True or False: A sonata is type of musical composition, usually for a solo instrument or a large instrumental ensemble

• True

• False

True or False: A concerto grosso pairs the orchestra with an ensemble.

• True

• False

True or False: Sometimes, the composer may also to choose to include a prelude to the suite.

• True

• False

What type of genre is usually for a solo instrument or a small instrumental ensemble

• Fugue

• Sonata

• Concerto

• Suite

What type of musical period do we hear on so-called “classical” music stations?

• Classical Period

• Ancient Greek Music

• Baroque Music

• Renaissance Music

What does the literal term of baroque mean?

• A bar of gold

• A rounded pearl

• The medieval period

• A misshaped pearl

Other than baroque meaning misshapen pearl, what does it mean in terms of art?

• Still refers to misshaped pearl.

• Used to describe the style of the era.

• Anything used to describe anything that is irregular or grotesque

• The Renaissance

What was the heliocentric theory?

• The model of the sun and the orbits around the planets

• The model to describe helium.

• The model of the solar system’s planets and their orbits around the sun.

• Talking about Helios