Multiple Choice

Click on the play button below to listen to the second movement of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.

In this excerpt, the melody is passed from violin to flute to harpsichord. This compositional technique, when one instrument plays a pattern very similar to another, is called
(1 point)
Responses

figured bass.
figured bass.

imitation.
imitation.

countermelody.
countermelody.

modulation.

1 answer

imitation.