Musically heightened speech that delivers the impersonal narrative of the opera's libretto is called:

A toccata is

a. a free sounding virtuoso work, usually for keyboard b. a keyboard work built around a chorale melody c. another name for a fugue d. the section of a keyboard work in which the player improvises e. any keyboard work with a fast tempo

Which genre, commonly performed during Lutheran church services in early

eighteenth-century Germany, is a multi-movement sacred work that includes recitatives, arias, and choruses, and is accompanied by a small orchestra?

a. cantata b. sonata c. opera d. chorale e. oratorio