General Music Baroque Era Quiz

The Baroque Era was a period in revolutionary time that saw a full embrace of polyphony, ornamentation and _____________ sophistication.

The early Baroque era of music was centered in the country of ________.

The English composer Henry Purcell and French composers like Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Phillippe Rameau made marks but is was the __________school of Baroque music that was most influential.

The Baroque Era placed emphasis on __________ which is the degree of loudness or softness within the music.

Prior to the Baroque era, a great amount of music was vocal. While Baroque composers still embraced singing in the form of chorales, cantatas, and opera, _____________ music became increasingly popular.

This form of music notation includes a complete bass line called _____________ is usually played by a cello in a Baroque ensemble. A player of a keyboard instrument like a harpsichord or piano then improvises chords using figured bass notation.

Composer Antonio Vivaldi was famed for his mastery of violin, but his most famous work is a series of violin concertos called _____________.

Both Handel and Bach were born in Germany in the year_____.

In 1708, Bach worked for the ______ of Weimar as a member of the orchestra and as court organist.

Though Bach did write secular music, he wrote sacred music such as this slow and very expressive work called _______________