English homework help. Answer the following questions.
- What main types of instrumental music were practiced in the seventeenth century?
- What is anorgan mass? What was the function of toccatas in the Catholic Mass?
- What was asonatain the sixteenth century? How was the term used in the seventeenth century?
- What role did toccatas, preludes, and chorale preludes play in the Protestant church?
- Where and in what position was Dietrich Buxtehude employed for most of his career? What types of music did he compose for use in that position?
- How does Buxtehude’sPraeludium in E Major(NAWM 95) fit the definition of a late seventeenth-century toccata or prelude given inCHWM, page 215? What type of texture and figuration does it use? How does it fall into sections?
- a. What areagréments, and what is their purpose?b. Define and describestyle brisé(broken stye).c. On what instrument didstyle briséandagrémentsoriginate, and why were they necessary on that instrument?
- What is a stylized dance? How do we know that Denis Gaultier’sLa Coquette virtuose(NAWM 87) and Jacquet de La Guerre’sSuite No. 3(NAWM 88) are stylized?
- What two main types of sonata began to be distinguished after about 1660? Describe each type as practiced by Corelli.
- What was the most common instrumentation for sonatas in the late seventeenth century? What was a sonata in this instrumentation called?
- What is acollegium musicum? What areStadtpfeifer? Where and when were each of these institutions active?