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Question

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre earned the patronage of Louis XIV after writing pieces for this instrument. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this instrument that François Couperin wrote a guide to playing. Unlike pianos, this keyboard instrument plucks, rather than hits the strings.

ANSWER: harpsichord [or clavecin]

[10m] Alongside the earlier works by Couperin, this composer’s Pièces de Clavecin (“pee-ESS duh klav-SAN”) are among the most popular French harpsichord suites. This composer rose to fame after publishing his Treatise on Harmony.

ANSWER: Jean-Philippe Rameau

[10h] A characteristic feature of French baroque harpsichord suites is the use of opening preludes described by this term in which the rhythm is not notated and is left to the performer to decide.

ANSWER: unmeasured prelude [or non-measured prelude or prélude non mesuré]

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