Quiz on Baroque Music

Some Puritan leaders considered polyphonic singing to be scandalous.

• True

• False

Lining-out does involves call-and-response singing.

• True

• False

Colonists in New England did not participate in congregational hymn singing, for it was forbidden by the church.

• True

• False

In eighteenth-century New England, a new type of notation evolved to improve solfège instruction which was called:

• Shape-note

• Fractural

• Cut Circle

The first book published in North America (1628) was called:

• The Bay Psalm Book

• A Key into Languages of America

• The Mysteries of Nature and Art

William Billings's David’s Lamentation is an anthem and was designed for sacred congregational singing.

• True

• False

Instead of the soprano line, Billings often wrote the melody to his pieces in which voice?

• tenor

• bass

• alto

The dance suite form 'allemande' originates from which country?

• Germany

• France

• Spain

Which of the following genres is a group of dance movements, usually in the same key?

• suite

• da capo aria

• ritornello

The strings of Baroque violins were made out of wrapped steel.

• True

• False