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King Louis the XIV
What is the name of the king that Jean-Baptiste Lully and Francois Couperin served under?
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George Frideric Handel
Name the German-turned-English composer that made his fame in Italian opera.
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FALSE
TRUE or FALSE: Before and after a church service, an improvised voluntary is to be played on the harpsichord.
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FALSE
TRUE or FALSE: Baroque music is to be played exactly the way it is written on the score.
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Of gangrene, after stabbing his foot with his conducting staff during a ballet rehearsal.
How did Lully die?
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The Palace of Versailles
What is the name of the palace that was the home to France's nobility, government, and high art?
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Opera
Which type of music/art form from Italy enjoyed widespread popularity across Europe during the Baroque era?
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Name the composer that entered the Guiness Book of World Records for having written the most compositions during his lifetime.
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TRUE
TRUE or FALSE: Organ performance was improvised rather than written down, up until the 18th century.
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Arcangelo Corelli, Antonio Vivaldi
Name the two Baroque composers that were equally famous as violinists than as composers.
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TRUE
TRUE or FALSE: The music of Francois Couperin was copied by J.S. Bach into the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.
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FALSE
TRUE or FALSE: Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas led to the development of the Sonata-Allegro form.
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C.P.E. Bach
Name the composer that wrote "Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments", which would become one of the most important musical books in the 18th century.
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Harpsichord = Secular music, plucked strings, no foot pedal
Organ = Sacred music, pipes and reeds, keyboard for feet
Name two major differences between the harpsichord and the organ.
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Frederick the Great
Name the king that famously challenged J.S. Bach to meet an improvise on an incredibly difficult theme.
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Jean-Phillipe Rameau
Which composer became famous for the theory of the "fundamental bass", which developed into Roman Numeral Analysis?
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Domenico Scarlatti
Which composer was once nicknamed "The Eagle" and composed for the royalty in order to clear his gambling debt?
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Dietrich Buxtehude
Name the composer and organ virtuoso that J.S. Bach walked 250+ miles in order to see perform.
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Trills, mordents, grace notes, turns, appogiaturas, arpeggiation
Name three examples of ornaments.
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George Frideric Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, C.P.E. Bach
Name the three Baroque composers that first studied law before becoming professional musicians.
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Any of the following: Allemande, Sarabande, Courante Gigue, Menuet, Passepied, Gavotte, Bergamasque, Passacaglia, Chaconne, Loure
Name any six French Baroque dances.
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"La Folia"
Sergei Rachmaninoff composed a theme and variation based off of this piece by Corelli, about 200 years later.
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Thomasschule (St. Thomas's School)
What is the name of the school in Leipzig that J.S. Bach worked at, because Telemann rejected the position?
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Basso continuo OR Figured bass
What is the form of musical notation in which only the lowest line and intervals are written in the music, and the performer is expected to improvise the rest?
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Georg Philipp Telemann, Dietrich Buxtehude, Arcangelo Corelli
Name the three composers that have evidence of being directly involved in J.S. Bach's life and music. (Not counting his sons!)
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