Listen to This: Chapter 3 Pre & Post-test. – Flashcards
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In what century did Landini live?
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the fourteenth
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Which famous poet lived at the same time and in the same city?
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Giovanni Boccaccio, author of the Decameron
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What texture is featured in Landini's "Behold, Spring"?
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polyphony
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In the medieval period there was very little secular music.
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false
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What is a ballata?
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a genre of secular song in the Middle Ages with origins in dance
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Landini was famous not only as a composer but as ______________
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an organist and poet.
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A cadence is ____________________.
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a stopping point, like the period at the end of a sentence.
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What is the meter?
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triple
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True or false: This is a mostly syllabic text setting.
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true
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The manuscript containing "Behold, Spring" is decorated in places with actual gold, beaten very thin.
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true
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How did polyphony originate, in Europe?
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Monks began to add a second line to chants.
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How did authorities react to early polyphony in the church?
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They accepted it as a kind of commentary on a well-known line of chant.
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The ballata was the main form of secular music in the Middle Ages.
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false
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Rhythmic freedom is easier in polyphonic than in monophonic music.
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false
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What is it called when different voices sing the same note?
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unison
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What do you hear at the points where the music pauses?
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the two voices are singing the same note
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The music in the two halves is the same.
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true
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In the word primavera ("spring"), on which syllable does the melisma fall?
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on "ma"
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Which of the following is true?
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Landini's secular output makes up about one-third of surviving Italian fourteenth-century music.
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The Squarcialupi Codex was one of the first commercial music publishing ventures.
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false
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"Behold, Spring" is polyphonic because the
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two voices sing equally important lines
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The melody of "Behold, Spring" is mostly
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syllabic
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The Squarcialupi Codex
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is unusually elaborate for its time.
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Which of the following would likely be found in a song in the courtly love tradition?
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a knight performing heroic deeds in honor of a lady
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Listen to this excerpt. The contour of melody is mostly
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conjunct.
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Listen to this excerpt. Which Section(s) can be heard in this excerpt?
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A and B
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Which of the following sequences represent the form heard in this excerpt from "Behold, Spring"?
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ABAA
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In "Behold, Spring," Landini inserts a cadence at the end of which two lines of each strophe?
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second and fourth
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Landini organized the rhythms in "Behold, Spring" around what kind of steady pattern?
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Triple meter
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In music, a "cadence" is equivalent to a(n)
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period.
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Polyphonic music tends to have more regular meter b/c
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it makes it easier for multiple voices to stay together
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A "strophe" is another word for
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stanza
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What would it mean if the musical form of this piece were AABA?
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The third strophe would have different music than the other three.
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The Squarcialupi Codex contains what kind of music?
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secular
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What condition of Landini's did not stop him from composing?
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blindness
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In the second half of this excerpt
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the music from the 1st half repeats exactly.
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The Squarcialupi Codex can best be described as a
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gold-leaf decorated manuscript created for a single wealthy individual.
