The Baroque period, which lasted from about 1600 to about 1750,
[sets / sits] between the
Renaissance and the Classical periods.
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L-4 Words Often Confused
EXERCISE 1 / Using Commonly Confused Words. Underline the word
in brackets that makes
sense in each of the following sentences. Answers to
even-numbered items can be found at the
back of the book.
EXAMPLE
1. Most reference works about music say or [imply / infer] that
Johann Sebastian Bach was the
greatest composer of the Baroque period.
2. Bach’s music [lays / lies] at a kind of intersection of the
northern German contrapuntal style
and the lively Italian style.
3. Bach’s works were almost forgotten after his death, but [than
/ then] in the nineteenth
century his reputation grew.
4. Bach [lead / led] other composers to create harpsichord
concertos, a genre he invented.
5. Bach’s full body of work also [composes / comprises] church
and secular cantatas, a mass,
preludes, fugues, sonatas, and suites.
6. Compared with the heavy texture of Baroque music, the
Classical style became known for
[its / it’s] lightness and simplicity.
7. The [principal / principle] composers of the Classical period
were Franz Joseph Haydn,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
8. Their genius produced [sensual / sensuous] string quartets,
symphonies, and operas.
9. The piano [raised / rose] to prominence over the harpsichord
and clavichord in the Classical
period.
10. [As / Like] the aristocracy had once enjoyed music in the
courts of mighty rulers, the
growing middle class in the Classical period experienced it at
public concerts.
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