MUS 110: Music Among Friends - Keyboard Music Worksheet

The two most popular keyboard instruments of the Baroque period were the ________________________ and ___________________________.

• harpsichord and organ

• piano and synthesizer

• accordion and clavichord

• electric keyboard and celesta

Johann Sebastian Bach was Baroque composer who also wrote _____________________________, a cantata that we studied during the Music in Sacred Spaces Unit.

• Wachet auf (Sleepers Awake)

• Messiah

• The Four Seasons

• Ave Maria

A ________________ is a contrapuntal (polyphonic) keyboard composition form based on imitation.

• fugue

• sonata

• prelude

• etude

________________ is the main theme (in a fugue).

• Subject

• Counterpoint

• Harmony

• Coda

(a)   is the subject imitated in another voice in a different key (in a fugue).

______________________ is a different theme heard against the subject (in a fugue).

• Countersubject

• Coda

• Prelude

• Episode

(a)   is the first section, subject is presented in each voice, one at a time (in a fugue).

______________________ are interludes (lacking the subject) (in a fugue).

• Episodes

• Expositions

• Codas

• Subjects

__________________________ augmentation, diminution, retrograde, inversion (in a fugue).

• Devices of fugue

• Types of chords

• Forms of scales

• Styles of dynamics

Bach’s Little Fugue in G Minor has 4 voices: ________________ , ________________ , ________________ , ________________ . They are all performed on the ________________ . (found in the video)