chapter 11 Bach

Question 1

Johann sebastian Bach

• years
• what was he
• visited
• what happened in 1750

Answer 1

• 1685-1750
• music director
• Weimar, Cothen, Leipzig
• became blind

Question 2

what did he write in Weimar

Answer 2

Little Fugue in G minor

Question 3

what did he write in Cothen

Answer 3

Brandenburg Concertos

Question 4

what did he write in Leipzig

Answer 4

lived there for 25 years and wrote 295+ cantatas

Question 5

Bach’s influences

-3 things

Answer 5

1. French dances (suites)
2. Italian concertos (Vivaldi and Brandenburg concertos)
3. German church music (cantatas and organ music)

Question 6

suite

• definition
• baroque suite
• dances are what
• ex

Answer 6

• a multi-movement work
• movements are contrasting dances
• stylized
• Bach cello suites, orchestral suites and keyboard suites

Question 7

When Bach lived in Leipzig

• # of churches
• music for
• what school
• what did he do

Answer 7

• 4
• chorus, soloists, and orchestra for each sunday and holiday of the church year
• St. thomas
• judged the construction of organs

Question 8

chorale

• definition
• where is it from
• texture
• used where for what

Answer 8

• hymn sung to a german religious text
• Luther’s Protestant reformation
• homophonic
• in lutheran service for social event of the week and small orch and choir

Question 9

cantata

• definition
• for what
• based on
• what is it like
• language

Answer 9

• a religious composition in several movements
• chorus, vocal soloist, organ and orch.
• a chorale
• biblical opera but w/o a set
• German/vernacular

Question 10

cantata No. 140

• name
• what is it
• 2 types

Answer 10

• Wake, arise the voices call us
• parable of the 10 virgins
• VII and IV

Question 11

VII

• type
• form
• texture

Answer 11

• chorale
• AAB
• homophonic

Question 12

IV

• who is it for
• type of melody
• who plays ritornelo

Answer 12

• tenors and orch
• chorale melody in tenor
• strings