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The main theme of a fugue is called the ________.

The expression of ________, as heard in John Dowland's Flow My Tears, was a prominent feature of English literature.

Most early baroque operas were based on Greek mythology and ________.

The use of organs in church ________.

Dido and Aeneas, which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English text, was composed by _______

The orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the ________ family.

The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by ________.

Woodwind instruments are so named because they ________.

To what does dynamics in music refer?

The intellectual movement called humanism ________.

What is the Renaissance madrigal?

The solo instruments in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are the ________, violin, and harpsichord.

_______ lived in Southern France and wrote poems in the Provençal language; while ________ flourished in Northern France

During the Renaissance, every educated person was expected to ________.

The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning ________.

The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is fast, dance-related, slow, fast.

To what does terraced dynamics refer?

A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called a(n) ________.

What is the Renaissance motet?

The ________ is a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time.

When a performer emphasizes a tone by playing it more loudly than the tones around it, it is called a ________.

An estampie is a medieval ________.

 ________ is a term applied to medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines

Who was Hildegard of Bingen?

An ________ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.

An ________ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and ________.

The concerto grosso most often has three movements whose tempo markings are ________.

Castrati ________.

Gregorian chant is monophonic in texture.

A bass part together with numbers that specify the chords to be played above it is called figured bass.

When two or more melodic lines of equal interest are performed simultaneously, the texture is ________.

Handel's Messiah is an example of ________.

In Italy, music schools were often connected with ________.

________ is a musical idea repeated over and over in the bass while melodies above it constantly change.

 Sonata form consists of three main sections: exposition, development, and transition.

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in ________ form.

The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was ________.

A concerto grosso most often has 4 movement(s).

How can music be defined?

Thomas Weelkes's As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its ________.

In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were women.

The piano has ________ keys, spanning more than seven octaves.

Of what does a homophonic texture consist?

What is a major difference between a cantata and an oratorio?