4. Which composer wrote the collection of the keyboard pieces known as The Well-Tempered Clavier?

A. Claudio Monteverdi
B. Ludwig van Beethoven
C. Felix Mendelssohn
D. Johann Sebastian Bach

5. Click on the play button below to listen to the audio sample. This musical excerpt, with its small group of soloists against an orchestral background, is known as a(n)

A. Concerto Grosso
B. Symphony
C. Tone Poem
D. Overture

6. _____ orchestras were substantially larger than those of earlier periods.

A. Renaissance
B. Baroque
C. Classical
D. Romantic

7. Unresolved dissonance, chromaticism, and atonality are characteristic of _____ music

8. Click on the play button below to listen to the audio sample.

In this excerpt, the musicians pluck the strings of their instruments rather than bowing them, a technique known as

A. Da capo
B. Pizzicato
C. Tone Row
D. Temperament

9.Which of the following composers was from the Baroque period?

A. Antonio Vivaldi
B. Franz Schubert
C. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
D. Felix Mendelssohn

10.Recitative is

A. The part of the Mass that is sung on special occasions.
B. A musical delivery that imitates the patterns of speech in an opera
C. A text setting typical of the Renaissance period
D. Many notes set to a single syllable of text