Baroque Instrumental Music questions n answers graded A+ 2023

Baroque Instrumental Music1600 - correct answer Around ________ several distinct shifts emerged in ways of thinking about the purposes, writing, and performance of music. use of instrumentation - correct answer One distinct difference between Ren. and Bar. music was _________________________________. idiomatic - correct answer Closely tied to this was the idea of ____________ writing. Idiomatic writing means - correct answer writing parts for specific instruments. which instrument was to play which part - correct answer Ren. composers generally did not specify __________________________________________________________________________________________. individual instrument sonarities. - correct answer They also were not concerned about 6 Categories of specifically instrumental music in the 16th century: - correct answer 1. Vocal music played on instr. 2. pre-existing melodies 3. variation sets 4. ricecars/ fantasias/ canzonas, 5. preludes/ preambles/ toccatas 6. music for solo voice & lute ricecar - correct answer a late Ren., early Bar. instr. composition. fantasia - correct answer musical comp. w/ roots in improv. prelude - correct answer instr. work preceding a larger work. toccata - correct answer virtouso piece generally for organ or harpsichord Baroque served as intro. to fugue Florentine Camerata - correct answer group of humanists, poets, and musicians that sought to re-create the style of Greek music. (monody grew out of this) melodic embellishments - correct answer In the early Baroque, ____________________ that had been improvised in the Ren. began to be written in. Idiomatic instr. effects - correct answer were present in the Ren., were written in the Baroque period. Monteverdi - correct answer the most notable Baroque composer to include idiomatic writing in his music. texture - correct answer Another crutcial difference between Ren. and Bar. writing was: Contrapuntal to monody - correct answer There was a shift from _____________ to ______________. Treble-bass polarity, basso continuo - correct answer Another development that added to texture was __________________, and the development of ___________________. vocal writing - correct answer The change in instrumental writing was partly an extension in __________________. return to music of ancient Greece. - correct answer The Florentine Camerata advocated a Le Nuove Musiche - correct answer a collection of melodies and songs for solo voice and continuo by composer, Caccini.