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WorksheetsBaroque Music Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Italian for "Plucked"
Pettinato
Arco
Andante
Pizzicato
Allegro
Seasonal piece by an Italian composer....
6 Seasons by Beethoven
To the Spring by Edward Grieg
The Planets by Gustav Holst
4 Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
A large work for voice and orchestra, based on a biblical or religious event
Motet
Madrigal
Oratorio
Opera
Choose a composer famous for Oratorios
George Frederick Handel
John Philip Handle
Joseph Haydn
Johannes Sebastian Bach
Name another work by the composer you chose in the previous question, which is not an Oratorio
Toccata in Fugue in D minor
Sheep may safely graze
Music for the Royal Fireworks
The Fairy queen
A piece written to show off the performer's technique, usually followed by a fugue
Tarantella
Toccata
Sonata
Suite
Name an Italian composer of the era, known as the father of opera
Henry Purcell
Annunzio Paolo Mantovani
Claudio Monteverdi
Arcangelo Corelli
Name a keyboard instrument in which strings were plucked
Clavichord
Harpsichord
Pianoforte
Organ
Name another baroque composer coming from a famous musical family born in the same year as Handel
Antonio Vivaldi
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Johann Pachelbel
Johann Sebastian Bach
Choose two famous works by the correct composer you chose in the previous question
Air in G
Canon in D
Messiah
Brandenburg Concerto
Modes became less popular - Which system was adopted instead?
Atonality
Dissonance
Major and Minor scales
Jazz chords
Choose two dances found in the Baroque dance suite
Sarabande
Waltz
Gavotte
Samba
What form do we call a composition written in the pattern A-A-B-B?
Ternary form
Binary form
Ritornello form
Sonata form
When the melody is supported by another melody rather than by chords, so that when they are played together they form a whole, we say that_______________ is used.
Harmony
Monophony
Centrepoint
Counterpoint
Name an English Baroque composer
Thomas Tallis
Henry Purcell
John Bennett
Thomas Arne
Name one work the composer in the previous question wrote
Romeo and Juliet
Dido and Aeneas
Swan Lake
Otello
Domenico Scarlatti is famous for which works?
Keyboard works
Orchestral works
Operas
Songs
Choose a keyboard instrument of this period where strings were hit and not plucked
Harpsichord
Clavichord
Pianoforte
Organ
What does a composer write in a concerto when he wants all performers to play as opposed to when only the soloist plays?
Duetto
Tutti
Aria
Solo
What is a type of polyphonic composition which usually follows a toccata or a prelude?
Minuetto
Fugue
Ballet
Sonata
