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

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

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

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

In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were women.

In Italy, music schools were often connected with ________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Of what does a homophonic texture consist?

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

Handel's Messiah is an example of ________.

Gregorian chant is monophonic in texture.

Woodwind instruments are so named because they ________.

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

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

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

The intellectual movement called humanism ________.

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

To what does terraced dynamics refer?

What is the Renaissance motet?

Who was Hildegard of Bingen?

The use of organs in church ________.

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

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

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

What is the Renaissance madrigal?

An estampie is a medieval ________.

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

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

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

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

To what does dynamics in music refer?

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

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

Castrati ________.

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

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

The main theme of a fugue is called the ________.

How can music be defined?

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