Pancrace Royer’s (“pan-CROSS rwah-YAY’s”) vigorous harpsichord pieces in this musical form include the furious block-chord-laden piece “Le vertigo.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this musical form with alternating refrains and episodes, similar to a forme fixe of the same name. Rameau perfected this genre with harpsichord pieces like “Les cyclopes” and the original “Les sauvages” (“leh so-VAZH”).
ANSWER: rondeau [or rondo; reject “round”]
[10e] This family of French harpsichordists included Marguerite-Antoinette, the first woman to be a royal court musician, and her father François, who composed “Les barricades mystérieuses.”
ANSWER: Couperin family [accept François Couperin; accept Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin]
[10h] Louis Couperin invented a genre of harpsichord preludes named for their lack of this musical feature. A German musicological term denotes these features when they are retroactively added to older vocal music.
ANSWER: bar lines [or measure lines; or barres de mesure; accept Mensurstriche; accept descriptions of marks that indicate separation of measures; accept unmeasured or non-measured prelude; accept prélude non mesuré]
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