Keyboard Assessment (C4ELink)

Handel had remarkable improvisational skills at the organ.

True

The term concerto refers to a performer playing by her/himself.

False The term concerto refers to a soloist accompanied by an orchestra.

What instrument plays the following excerpt?
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Harpsichord

Although Chopin admired Italian bel canto, he didn’t think of the piano as a singing instrument.

False Chopin was able to reinvent the piano as a singing instrument, much along the lines of the Italian bel canto (beautiful singing) which he so greatly admired.

Handel’s Eight Suites for Keyboard remained largely unknown in the 18th century, except among his friends.

False Although many of his keyboard works circulated in manuscript form among his friends, his Eight Suites for Keyboard (1720)—which he himself painstakingly prepared—remain one of the best-known published collection of harpsichord pieces of the 18th century.

What instrument plays this example?

Organ

Construction and sound production are the same among keyboard instruments.

False Construction and sound production are not the same among keyboard instruments.

Keyboard instruments are sometimes part of the orchestra.

True

The following excerpt is a clear example of:
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Word painting

The following 11-second excerpt represents word painting in:
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A suite by Jean-Phillippe Rameau. This excerpt comes from Rameau’s Suite in G Major – minor where it’s hard to miss the image of a chicken clucking and pecking away in the repeated notes and fast runs you just heard.