Baroque Music--Q and A--Style, Part 2

Baroque Music--Q and A--Style, Part 2

1. What became an important discipline in instrumental Baroque music? What resulted from this?

2. What type of variation became evident in much instrumental music?

3. What did the musical sequences in the Baroque consist of mainly?

4. What developed between chamber and orchestra media in the late 17th century?

5. What replaced equal-tempered tuning in keyboard instruments? Which Bach's collection showed an example of this?

6. What developed much more unlike in the Renaissance, the instruments' specialties in the Baroque period?

1. Improvisation; problems in performing most Baroque music.

2. Thematic variation.

3. Repetitions of melodic patterns.

4. A clearer distinction between them.

5. Meantone tuning; The Well-Tempered Clavier.

6. The instrumental idiom.