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8. Read page 110. Paraphrase the reading on how opera started in the Baroque period.
9. Skim the rest of Chapter 12 and name two Baroque operas and their composers found in this chapter.
10. Instrumental music became as important as vocal music in the Baroque time period. Read page 118 and discuss the rise of instrumental music. What two keyboard instruments became important in the Baroque period? (Both of these instruments can serve as aural characteristics for the Comparative Chart under the Baroque period as well as obsessive metrical rhythm and homophony discussed earlier in this class.)
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11. Skim the rest of Chapter 13 and define sonata and suite. (In addition to opera, oratorios, and cantatas, sonatas and the suite are new forms of Baroque music.)
12. Read pages 128–129. Paraphrase the text’s description of fugue. Note that the fugue is based on lines of music imitating one another.
13. Paraphrase the definition of toccata on page 129.
14. Comparative Chart: From your textbook activities in Class Three, identify
a. the basic philosophy of the Baroque period
b. aural characteristics of Baroque music
c. new forms of Baroque music