Ch 03 Francesco Landini- "Behold, Spring" – Flashcards
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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 preforming heroic deed in honor of a lady.
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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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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 as Landini?
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Giovanni Boccaccio, author of the Decameron
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What is a ballata?
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A genre of secular songs in the Middle Ages with origins in dance.
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Landini was famous not only as a composer but also as an
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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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The Squarcialupi Codex
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is unusually elaborate for this time.
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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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The Squarcialupi Codex contains mostly what kind of music?
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Secular
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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 condition of Landini's did not stop him from composing?
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Blindness
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In music, a "cadence" is equivalent to a
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period
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Polyphonic music tends to have more regular meter because
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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 Spuarcialupi Codex can best be described as a
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gold leaf decorated manuscript created for a single wealthy individual.
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LTTE: What is the meter?
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triple
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LTTE: The contour of the melody is mostly
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conjunct
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LTTE: Which section can be heard in this excerpt?
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A and B
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LTTE: In the word "primavera" (spring), on which syllable does the melisma fall?
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on "ma"
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LTTE: In the second half of this excerpt
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the music from the first half repeats exactly.
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LTTE: What can be heard at the points where the music pauses?
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The two voices are singing the same note.
