instrumental music late renaissance early baroque

Question 1

wgat are four examples of fugal like instrumental pieces of this era

Answer 1

Fantasia, Ricercare, Verset, Capriccio

Question 2

what is a fantasia

Answer 2

at first an improvisatory genre used to simply warm up before a bigger performance. is fugal because it plays with imitative counterpoint and contrapuntal style.

Question 3

what is the monothematic fantasia and who is a master of it

Answer 3

a precursor to the fugue, based on one subject and its permutations. Sweelink eas one of the masters of this music

Question 4

what two types of fantasias did Sweelink write

Answer 4

monothematic and echo

Question 5

what is sweelinks most famous work

Answer 5

Fantasia Chromatica

Question 6

what techniques does fantasia chromatica use

Answer 6

augmentation, diminution, countersubjects

Question 7

What is a toccata

Answer 7

a piece intended as a display of manual dexterity, almost always for solo keyboard instrument.

Question 8

who is one of the forerunners of the toccata

Answer 8

Girolamo Frescobaldi

Question 9

what is the example we looked at in class of a frescobaldi toccata

Answer 9

toccata no. 3

Question 10

what four dance styles are typically included in a dance suite

Answer 10

allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue

Question 11

who is Elizabeth claude Jaquet de la Guerre

Answer 11

a darling of the court of Louis XIV, she had great success in paris as a composer, teacher, and performer. she also was the first female composer to put on an opera cephale et procris

Question 12

what is the example of Jaquet de la Guerre that we looked at

Answer 12

suite in A minor (unmeasured prelude and allemande)