Question 3: The most commonly used instruments for playing the bass line and filling in any inner parts, at this time, were the lute, theorbo, chitarrone, and ________.
Question 5: No one followed Gesualdo down this path of ________ and extreme chromaticism, although composers such as Antonio Cifra, Sigismondo d'India, and Domenico Mazzocchi selectively used some of his techniques.
Question 8: After the 1630s it merged with the cantata and the ________, and the solo madrigal was replaced by the aria because of the rise of opera as an important genre.