Author Question: The Baroque texture contains all of the following except A) a steady basso continuo B) an ... (Read 105 times)

tatyanajohnson · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

The Baroque texture contains all of the following except

A) a steady basso continuo

B) an obbligato on every refrain

C) one or more melodic parts at the top

D) keyboard chords filling in the space

E) common practice harmony unifying the parts

Question 2

Musically heightened speech that delivers the impersonal narrative of the opera's libretto is called:

A) aria
B) ripieno
C) recitative
D) arioso