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Music: The Art of Listening Book Cover
Music: The Art of Listening, 6/e
Jean Ferris, Arizona State University-Tempe

Essay Quiz



1

If you were going to write an opera during the Baroque period, what subject matter would you use? Where would you find people to sing and play the parts? Would it be difficult to get people together for rehearsals? Why?
2

Do you think it was right to have castrati singers available for vocal performances during the Baroque period?
3

Find an example of figured bass. Try to realize the figured bass, finding the pitches that could be played above the figured bass notes. Do you need to know more information in order to do this?








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