SET WORK – THE BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO 1

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

1. Where was he born?
2. What year did he die and why is this signigicant?
3. Whose concertos did he study?
4. What instruments did he play?
5. He was employed as a Kapellmeister – what is this?
6. What year were the Brandenburg concertos first published?
7. Music from Brandenburg Concert no 1 appears in which other of his works?

BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 1

1. The piece is a concerto gross – what is this?
2. Which instruments play both as concertino and ripieno?
3. What does ripieno mean?
4. What type of horns did Bach originally want?
5. The horns are in which key? Notes need to be written down a ________ in
the exam.
6. What is a transposing instrument?
7. Which woodwind instruments are used in the Brandenburg Concerto?
8. What is a violin piccolo?
9. What strings are used in the ripieno?
10. Viola music uses which clef?
11. What is a violone grosso?
12. Which instruments form the continuo group?
13. Which instruments use the following abbreviations:
fag
vc
vl picc
senza vl pic
14.Which three instruments often share musical material?