The fifteen title pieces of Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas are followed by a final piece in this genre for unaccompanied violin. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this triple-meter dance genre characterized by a basso ostinato. Along with a sarabande, a piece in this genre by another baroque composer was transcribed for violin and viola by Johan Halvorsen.
ANSWER: passacaglia [or passacaille or passacaglio or passacagllo or passacagli]
[10m] Halvorsen transcribed the G minor passacaglia and D minor sarabande from two of this composer’s many keyboard suites. The fifth of those suites by this composer concludes with an Air and Variations whose fanciful nickname may have come from a repeated pedal B resembling a hammer.
ANSWER: George Frideric Handel (The piece is nicknamed The Harmonious Blacksmith.)
[10e] Handel’s solo repertoire also includes the Fitzwilliam Sonatas for this instrument. Lucie Horsch plays this seven-holed woodwind instrument, which was pushed by Carl Orff for use in music education.
ANSWER: recorder
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