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WorksheetsUnit 3: Baroque Ch. 11-13
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Johann Sebastien Bach only held church positions and wrote only church (sacred) music.
True
False
What responsibilities did Bach have when he taught at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig?
Wrote music for the four main churches
taught music to students at the St. Thomas school
gave weekly concerts at a coffeehouse
All of the above
What letters did Bach write at the beginning and end or his compositions meaning "Jesus help" and "to God be the glory"?
J.J. - S.D.G
J.H. - G.B.G
J.S. - B.T.G.
J.J. - T.G.G
Bach never married and had no children.
True
False
Bach was known for being the most eminent composer of his day. People knew his works for world wide while he was still alive.
True
False
Bach composed in all the common forms of the day except
Cantata
Fugue
Opera
Mass
Bach wrote more instrumental music than choral music.
True
False
The musical texture that Bach favored was
Monophonic
Homophonic
Polyphonic
Heterophonic
Bach's sacred (church) music often sounded like the secular (popular) music of the day.
True
False
The Baroque Dance Suite was meant for listening, not for dancing.
True
False
The Baroque Suite was made up of several movements that were all in the same key, but had different tempos and characters.
True
False
A cantata originally meant a piece to be played, as opposed to a sonata, which meant a piece to be sung.
True
False
The cantata closely resembled the opera of Bach's day.
True
False
Another name for a Chorale, is a(n)
aria
suite
hymn
mass
In order to involve the congregation in the service, composers would write easy chorales in Latin for them to sing
True
False
