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Baroque a play set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action - correct answer opera baroque suites frequently begin with a - correct answer french overture a polyphonic composite based on one theme, a cornerstone of baroque music in the - correct answer fugue baroque tri sonatas usually involve ___ performers - correct answer four a __ in a singer with a very low range and powerful voice, who usually takes roles calling for dignity - correct answer basso profundo the music director of a baroque court was usually not responsible for - correct answer publicity in reaching an audience henry purcells opera Dido and Aeneas was inspired by Aeneid an epic poem by - correct answer Virgil the solo instruments in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are the - correct answer flute oboe and harpsichord the position of the composer during the baroque period was that of - correct answer a high class servant with few personal rights the concerto gross most often has three movements whose tempo markings are - correct answer fast, slow, fast the orchestra evolved during the baroque period into performing group based on instruments of the __ family - correct answer violin castrati - correct answer al of the above in italy music schools were often connected with - correct answer orphanages the __ beats time - correct answer conductor when the subject of a fugue is presented in the dominant scale, it is called the - correct answer answer bach was recognized as the most eminent ___ of his day - correct answer organist melodic sequence refers to - correct answer the successive repetition of a musical idea at higher or lower pitch levels backs brandenburg concerto no 5 is unusual in that - correct answer it gives a solo role to a harpsichord Antonio vivaldi spent most of his life working at an institution for orphaned and illegitimate girls in - correct answer venice Frederick the great, king of Prussia, was a - correct answer composer, general, and flutist a common variation form in the baroque is based on the use of a ground bass, or - correct answer basso ostinato most early baroque operas were based on greek mythology and - correct answer ancient history a typical baroque operatic form was the da part aria in ABA form in which the singer - correct answer was expected to embellish the returning melody with ornamental tones