Quarter 2 Week 6 - Baroque Music

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and _____________________

• Johann Sebastian Bach

• Antonio Vivaldi

• Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach

• Muzio Clementi

What are the 3 phases of baroque music?

(a)  

Early baroque composers favored polyphonic texture over homophonic texture typical of Renaissance music.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

Early baroque composers favored HOMOPHONIC texture over POLYPHONIC texture typical of Renaissance music.

What did early baroque composers use to depict emotions in their text?

• manuscript illumination

• polyphony

• dissonance

• homophony

In early baroque music, how did composers accompany voices in their choral works? What did they wrote that is designed for instruments?

(a)  

When did instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time?

• early baroque

• middle baroque

• late baroque

It is a baroque piece that usually expresses one mood.

• terraced dynamics

• affections

• unity of mood

• none of the above

Baroque rhythmic patterns heard at the beginning of a piece are heard repeatedly throughout all of it.

• TRUE

• FALSE

It is the alternation between loud and soft

(a)  

Choose two (2) instruments that were the main instruments of the baroque period:

• clavichord

• harpsichord

• piano

• organ