Reading: The Rise of Instrumental Music

Question 1

3 main sources of instrumental music in the Baroque:

Answer 1

1. Dance.
2. Virtuosity.
3. Vocal music.

Question 2

Sutie

Answer 2

A piece consisting of a series of dances.

Question 3

Fugue

Answer 3

A composition written systematically in imitative polyphony, usually with a single main theme, the fugue subject.

Question 4

Variations

Answer 4

Sectional pieces in which each section repeats certain musical elements while others change around them.

Question 5

Girolamo Frescobaldi

Answer 5

Organ virtuoso in which the three main sources of isntrumental music are all evident.

Question 6

Toccata

Answer 6

Especially in Baroque music, a written-out composition in improvisational style, generally for organ or harpsichord.

Question 7

Canzona

Answer 7

A lively, fugue-like composition, one of several 16th and 17th Century genres of instrumental music.

Question 8

Stylized dances of Frescobaldi:

Answer 8

Formed of two phrases each, one or both og them repeated to yield the pattern aab or aabb.