Many Baroque concerto movements are in _________________________ form, the name for the orchestral music that typically starts movements off and returns in later sections.

The _______________________ is a large, impressive concert piece for orchestra and is rightly viewed as the crowning achievement of Classical music.

What is the genre that involves small groups of players, usually two to eight, designed to be performed in a room in a palace drawing room or salon?

An _____________________ is an opera on a religious subject, such as an Old Testament story or the life of a saint.

The most highly prized skill of the elite musicians of the era, opera singers, was improvising melodic extras in the arias they sang night after night. This practice is called ____________________.

Which piano sonata by Beethoven is known as the “Moonlight” Sonata?

The operatic technique of declaiming words musically in a heightened, theatrical manner, most often to a basso continuo accompaniment is known as the ___________________________. 

The central importance of harmony in Baroque music is the universal practice of _________________. The continuo is a bass part that is always linked to a series of chords.

The custom all over Europe was to group a collection of miscellaneous dances together in a genre called the _______________.

A _____________________ is a polyphonic composition for a fixed number of instrumental lines or voices – usually 3 or 4 – built on a single principal theme.