Keyboard Music

Question 1

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is a historically significant collection of English keyboard music dating from the early…

Answer 1

17th century.

Question 2

What term does “sound is generated by small quills inside the instrument that pluck the strings” refer to?

Answer 2

harpsichord

Question 3

What term does “often had two manuals (sets of keys)” refer to?

Answer 3

harpsichord

Question 4

What term does “a generic term used for all plucked keyboard instruments in England” refer to?

Answer 4

virginal

Question 5

What term does “generally smaller and lighter than the harpsichord” refer to?

Answer 5

virginal

Question 6

What term does “some could be placed on a tabletop or held in the player’s lap” refer to?

Answer 6

virginal

Question 7

What term does “a work based on the statement of a melody followed by a series of transformations” refer to?

Answer 7

variations

Question 8

What term does “changes can be made to the melody, harmony, and/or rhythm” refer to?

Answer 8

variations

Question 9

What term does “compositional style that highlights the unique technical capabilities of an instrument” refer to?

Answer 9

idiomatic writing

Question 10

What term does “opposite of “generic”” refer to?

Answer 10

idiomatic writing

Question 11

What term does “developed in the late Renaissance and Baroque eras” refer to?

Answer 11

idiomatic writing

Question 12

what characterizes variation 7 of “the carman’s whistle”?

Answer 12

more active rhythmic movement

Question 13

Who composed the carman’s whistle?

Answer 13

William Byrd

Question 14

What is the form of Byrd’s “The carman’s whistle”?

Answer 14

Theme and variations

Question 15

What is the source of Byrd’s “The carman’s whistle”?

Answer 15

Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

Question 16

What composer does “English Renaissance composer and singer in the Chapel Royal” refer to?

Answer 16

William Byrd

Question 17

What composer does “well represented in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book” refer to?

Answer 17

William Byrd

Question 18

What composer does “contributed to the development of an idiomatic keyboard style” refer to?

Question 19

What composer does “composed sacred works for both the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches in both English and Latin” refer to?

Answer 19

William Byrd

Question 20

What composer does “composed songs for solo voice accompanied by a consort of viols, a distinctly English genre” refer to?

Question 21

What were William Byrd’s notable genres?

1. instrumental
2. Mass
3. madrigal
4. vocal
5. Motet

Answer 21

Instrumental:
keyboard
ensemble works for viol consort
Vocal:
Latin motets
Latin Masses
English anthems
songs for solo voice and viol consort