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Unit 3: Baroque Ch. 11-13

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Johann Sebastien Bach only held church positions and wrote only church (sacred) music.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

What responsibilities did Bach have when he taught at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig?

a)

Wrote music for the four main churches

b)

taught music to students at the St. Thomas school

c)

gave weekly concerts at a coffeehouse

d)

All of the above

3.

What letters did Bach write at the beginning and end or his compositions meaning "Jesus help" and "to God be the glory"?

a)

J.J. - S.D.G

b)

J.H. - G.B.G

c)

J.S. - B.T.G.

d)

J.J. - T.G.G

4.

Bach never married and had no children.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Bach was known for being the most eminent composer of his day. People knew his works for world wide while he was still alive.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Bach composed in all the common forms of the day except

a)

Cantata

b)

Fugue

c)

Opera

d)

Mass

7.

Bach wrote more instrumental music than choral music.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The musical texture that Bach favored was

a)

Monophonic

b)

Homophonic

c)

Polyphonic

d)

Heterophonic

9.

Bach's sacred (church) music often sounded like the secular (popular) music of the day.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

The Baroque Dance Suite was meant for listening, not for dancing.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

The Baroque Suite was made up of several movements that were all in the same key, but had different tempos and characters.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

A cantata originally meant a piece to be played, as opposed to a sonata, which meant a piece to be sung.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The cantata closely resembled the opera of Bach's day.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Another name for a Chorale, is a(n)

a)

aria

b)

suite

c)

hymn

d)

mass

15.

In order to involve the congregation in the service, composers would write easy chorales in Latin for them to sing

a)

True

b)

False