Music Appreciation - Baroque

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Medieval church modes gave way to _____ & _____ scales in the middle Baroque

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Major & minor

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2 Musical giants of the Baroque

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Handel & J.S. Bach

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Bass part with numbers (figures) specifying chords to be played above it

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Figured bass

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Alternation between soft & loud dynamics in Baroque music

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Terraced dynamics

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Section that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition

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Movement

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One of the most revolutionary periods in music history

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early Baroque

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Early Baroque was characterized by _____ texture

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Homophonic

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Popular keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by means of brass blades striking the strings

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Clavichord

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Affections in Baroque usage refers to

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Emotional States

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In Italy, music schools were often connected with

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Orphanages

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A large court during the Baroque might employ about _____ performers

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80

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A concerto grosso usually has _____ movements

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3

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The tempo markings of the movements of a concerto grosso are _____ _____ _____

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Fast Slow Fast

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The first and last movements of a concerto grosso are often in _____ _____

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Ritornello form

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The solo instruments in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are the _____ _____ & _____

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Flute
Violin
Harpsichord

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Melodic idea that constantly accompanies the subject of a fugue

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Countersubject

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Single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while the other voices produce a series of changing harmonies against it

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Pedal point

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2nd presentation of a fugue subject, usually in a dominant scale

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Answer

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Original time values are lengthened

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Augmentation

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Transitional sections of a fugue that offer either new material or fragments of the subject / countersubject

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Episodes

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Main theme of a fugue

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Subject

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Imitation of a subject before it is completed

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Stretto

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Text or book of a musical dramatic work

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Libretto

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Play set to music and sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, & action

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Opera

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Vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech

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Recitative

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Song for solo voice with orchestra accompaniment

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Aria

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Operatic number in which 3 or more lead singers is involved

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An ensemble

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Orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work

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Overture or Prelude

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Most early Baroque operas were based on Greek mythology & _____ _____

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Ancient history

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Members of the Camerata wanted to create a new vocal style based on the music of

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Ancient Greek tragedy

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Typical Baroque operatic form was the da capo aria in ABA form in which the singer was expected to

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Embelish the returning melody with ornaments

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First opera house in Europe to offer entry to anyone with the price of admission opened in 1637 in

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Venice

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Members of the Camerata wanted the vocal line of their music to follow the rhythms and

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pitch fluctuations of speech

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Speechlike melody accompanied only by basso continuo is called _____ _____

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Ornamental tones

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Monteverdi spent the greater part of his career in the most important church post in Italy, at

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St. Mark's in Venice

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To evoke angry / warlike feelings in some of his texts, Monteverdi introduced _____ as a new orchestral effect including pizzicato

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tremolo

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Used Dissonance

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Monteverdi

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Monteverdi's vocal music was ordinarily supported by a _____ _____ and other instruments

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basso continuo

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A common variation form in the Baroque is the ground bass or _____ _____

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basso ostinato

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"Dido and Aeneas," which many people consider the finest opera ever written to an English text was inspired by Virgil's epic poem, the _____

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Aeneid

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Composer buried under the organ in Westminster Abbey

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Henry Purcell

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Baroque trio sonatas usually involve _____ performers

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4

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The sonata in the Baroque period was a composition in several movements for _____-_____ instruments

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1-8

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Abbreviation op. stand for opus, Latin for

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a work

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Vivaldi is closely identified with the musical life of

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Venice

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Vivaldi wrote approx. _____ concertos

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450

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Vivaldi was famous and influential as a virtuoso

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violinist

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A Vivaldi concert usually has _____ movements

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3

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Musical ornament consisting of rapid alteration of 2 tones that are a whole-step or 1/2-step apart

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trill

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Bach's church music uses operatic forms, such as the _____ and _____

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Aria and Recitative

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Bach's works are unique in their combination of rich _____ and _____ texture

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Harmony and polyphonic

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Collection of twice 24 preludes and fugues, each in major and minor key, basic to the repertory of keyboard players today is Bach's _____ _____ - _____ _____

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The Well-Tempered Clavier

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Bach achieves unity of mood in his compositions by using

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An insistent drive

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Of Bach's 20 children, _____ went on to become well-known composers

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4

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Bach created masterpieces in every Baroque form except

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Opera

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Bach's personal style was drawn from (3)

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1) Italian concertos
2) French dance pieces
3) German church music

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Bach was the most eminent _____ of his day

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Organist

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Baroque suites frequently begin with a _____ _____

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French overture

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Although all the movements of a Baroque suite are written in the same key, they differ in (3)

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1) Tempo
2) Meter
3) National origin

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A waltz is a part of a Baroque suite - T / F

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False

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The various dances of the Baroque suite are usually in _____ form

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AABB

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The French Overture has _____ sections which are _____ &_____

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2 Sections
Slow & Fast

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Which dance is from Germany?

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Allemande

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Which dance is from Spain?

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Sarabande

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Which dance is from France?

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Courante

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The Gigue is a dance from Holland - T / F

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False

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An instrumental composition based on a chorale

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Chorale prelude

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In Bach's day, the Lutheran church service lasted about _____ hours

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4

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A Lutheran congregational hymn tune

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Chorale

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In their use of aria, duet, and recitative, Bach's cantatas closely resembled the _____ of the time

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Opera

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A sung piece, or choral work with or without vocal soloists, usually with orchestral accompaniment, is the

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Cantata

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Oratorio's first appeared in which country?

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Italy

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The first oratorio's were based on

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Biblical stories

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Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no _____, _____, or _____

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Acting
Scenery
or Costumes

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In oratorio, the story is carried forward by the

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Narrator

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An element of the oratorio that is especially important and serves to comment on or participate in the drama is

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The chorus

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George Frideric Handel was born in 1685, the same year as_____. _____. _____

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J.S. Bach

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Although Handel wrote a great deal of instrumental music, the core of his huge output consists of English oratorios and Italian

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Operas

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Handel's oratorios are usually based on _____ _____ _____

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Old Testament stories

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In addition to being a composer and opera impresario, Handel was a virtuoso

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Organist

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Handel's "Messiah" is an example of an

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Oratorio

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Handel spent the major portion of his life in

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England

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Which oratorio's did Handel write (3)

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1) Messiah
2) Israel in Egypt
3) Joshua

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The focus of a Handel oratorio is usually the

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Chorus

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Who wrote the "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5"?

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J.S. Bach

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Who wrote "Organ Fugue"?

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J.S. Bach

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Who wrote "Orfeo" (Orpheus)

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Monteverdi

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Who wrote "Dido and Aeneas"?

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Purcell

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He was known as the "Red Priest"

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Vivaldi

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Who wrote "La Primavera" (Spring) from "The Four Seasons"?

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Vivaldi

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Who wrote "The Well-Tempered Clavier"?

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J.S. Bach

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Who wrote "Suite No. 3 in D Major"?

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J.S. Bach

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Who wrote "Cantata No. 140: Awake, A Voice Is Calling Us"?

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J.S. Bach

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Who wrote "Israel in Egypt"?

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Handel

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Who wrote "Messiah"?

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Handel

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Who wrote "Joshua"?

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Handel

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What is Bach's "Art Of The Fugue"?

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A Fugue