Chapter 10

Question 1

Concerto

Answer 1

soloist with orchestra, multi-movement works (usually 3 movements, fast, slow, fast)

Question 2

concerto grosso

Answer 2

group of soloists with orchestra, multi-movement work, 3 movements

Question 3

movement

Answer 3

self-contained section of larger work

Question 4

ritornello form

Answer 4

ritornello, soloist, ritornello, soloist, etc. [not a certain number of ritornellos, varies]

Question 5

Baroque variation form

Answer 5

simultaneous repetition and contrast

Question 6

program music

Answer 6

music created for “programmatic” performance (created just to be listened to, entertained, not for the church or court, opera sometimes fits this role but not always )

Question 7

cadenza

Answer 7

virtuosic ending for soloist, usually in the first movement in a concerto setting

Question 8

fugue- J.S. Bach

Answer 8

polyphonic composition for a number of “voices” built on one theme

Question 9

principals in a fugue

Answer 9

• subject
• exposition
• episodes
• countersubject
• stretto

Question 10

the well-tempered clavier

Answer 10

written by J. S. Bach
2 books of preludes and fugues in every major & minor key

Question 11

Late Baroque dance forms

Answer 11

minuet (and trio)
sarabande
gigue (gig)

Question 12

Ritornello

Answer 12

Alternating orchestra material in concerto setting

Question 13

Subject

Answer 13

Principal theme in a fugue

Question 14

exposition

Answer 14

Presentation of subject in all voices

Question 15

episodes

Answer 15

contrasting sections from subject entries

Question 16

countersubject

Answer 16

other musical line that can appear in counterpoint with subject, note for note

Question 17

stretto

Answer 17

overlapping fugal entrances, not just one subject happening by itself