- What main types of instrumental music were practiced in the seventeenth century?
- What is anorgan mass? What was the function of toccatas in the Catholic Mass?
- What was asonatain the sixteenth century? How was the term used in the seventeenth century?
- What role did toccatas, preludes, and chorale preludes play in the Protestant church?
- Where and in what position was Dietrich Buxtehude employed for most of his career? What types of music did he compose for use in that position?
- How does Buxtehude’sPraeludium in E Major(NAWM 95) fit the definition of a late seventeenth-century toccata or prelude given inCHWM, page 215? What type of texture and figuration does it use? How does it fall into sections?
