Reading: Baroque Dances, Minuet Form, and The String Quartet

Question 1

Minuet

Answer 1

(1) A popular seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dance in moderate triple meter; (2) a movement in a sonata, symphony, etc., based on this dance.

Question 2

Sarabande

Answer 2

A Baroque dance in slow triple meter, with a secondary accent on the second beat.

Question 3

Suite

Answer 3

A piece consisting of a series of dances.

Question 4

Gigue

Answer 4

A Baroque dance in a lively compound meter.

Question 5

Binary Form

Answer 5

A musical form having two different sections; AB form.

Question 6

Trio

Answer 6

(1) A piece for three instruments of singers; (2) the second, or B section of a minuet movement, scherzo, etc.

Question 7

What is the standard form for a Baroque dance?

Answer 7

Binary.

Question 8

With shorter dances in the Baroque era, composers tended to group them in pairs of the same type, with the first coming back after the second, resulting in a large scale ___ form.

Answer 8

ABA.

Question 9

Give the general form of a minuet:

Answer 9

A (aabb) B (ccdd) A (ab).

Question 10

Ternary Form

Answer 10

A three-part musical form in which the last section repeats the first; ABA form.

Question 11

String Quartet

Answer 11

An instrumental group consisting of two violins, viola, and cello; or a piece composed for this group; or the four players themselves.

Question 12

Chamber Music

Answer 12

Music played by small groups, such as a string quartet or a piano trio.