CHAPTER 7 MUSIC APPRECIATION HW – Flashcards
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The process by which Renaissance composers freely embellished plainchant melodies for use in their compositions is known as:
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Paraphrase
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In the early Renaissance, composers concentrated on the __________ rather than the __________ of the plainchant melodies used.
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sonority; authoritarian function
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In medieval music the plainchant melody was in the __________ voice, but in the early Renaissance it moved to the __________voice.
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Lowest, highest
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What was the new, preferred texture of early Renaissance music?
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Homophony
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What type of piece results when all voices move in simple chord patterns?
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Plainchant harmonization
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Where was Dufay (and many other important composers of his day) born, and where did he spend his career?
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Northern France near Belgium; Italy
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In church music, a short tune sung through many stanzas of text is a:
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Hymn
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Dufay's "Ave maris stella" is:
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A harmonized hymn
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Dufay is best known for his:
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polyphonic Masses and plainchant harmonizations
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The most important part of the daily church services was the:
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Mass
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There are _______ standard sections to the polyphonic Mass
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Five
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Which is not a movement of the Mass?
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Cantus
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The great, large-scale compositional challenge of the Renaissance was musical unification of:
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The Mass
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The High Renaissance style began around:
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1500
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Which two techniques were blended to form the compositional style for the Mass, the motet, and the chanson in the High Renaissance?
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imitative counterpoint and homophony
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How did polyphony change from the beginning to the end of the fifteenth century?
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It started out non-imitative and ended imitative.
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In terms of texture, High Renaissance composers:
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used polyphonic lines in such a way that a chordal quality was maintained
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The musical term for "voices alone" is:
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A cappella
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The preferred tone color of the High Renaissance style was:
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Voices alone
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How can rhythm in the High Renaissance style be characterized?
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Rhythm was unaccented and fluid, with the meter often obscured.
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Who was the first master of the High Renaissance style?
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Josquin Desprez
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Josquin composed works in which genre(s)?
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Mass, motet, and chanson
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The text of the Kyrie section of the Pange lingua Mass is:
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Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison
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Points of imitation are used extensively in:
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the Kyrie from the Pange lingua Mass
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What is a point of imitation?
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a passage of imitative polyphony using one musical motive and one phrase of text
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A characteristic of High Renaissance music, as heard in the Pange lingua Mass, is the contrasting of __________ and __________.
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homophony; imitative polyphony
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Renaissance composers were inspired to explore the power of music to express human feelings. Their inspiration came from the:
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Ancient Greeks
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The first style period in which composers tried to set words to music in a natural and clear way was:
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The High Renaissance
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The style of setting words to music using rhythms that approximate human speech is called:
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Declamation
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What is the device used by Renaissance composers to depict in music the words or ideas of a text?
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Word painting
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Word painting was first used extensively in the __________ century.
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Sixteenth
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The universality of the late Renaissance style is found in the works of Palestrina, Lassus, Victoria, and Byrd, who worked, respectively, in:
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Rome, Munich, Rome and Madrid, and England.
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The most convincing and diplomatic composer of Roman Catholic Church music during the Counter-Reformation was:
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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Homophonic texture and avoidance of long, elaborate phrases composed on one syllable of text characterize the music of:
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
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Which is true of the evolution of the motet over the centuries?
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The motet has changed a great deal over the centuries.
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Why was the motet more attractive than the Mass to sixteenth-century composers?
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The motet allowed for different texts, but the Mass always had the same text.
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The Italian madrigal dates from about:
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1530
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A short piece of music set to a one-stanza secular poem with each part sung typically by one singer, and having alternating sections of homophony and polyphony, is a:
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Madrigal
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The anthology of madrigals in honor of Queen Elizabeth that was compiled in 1601 was called:
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The Triumphs of Oriana
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The most significant difference between the Italian madrigal and the English madrigal is that Italian madrigals are __________ and English madrigals are __________.
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In Italian, In English
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Thomas Weelkes wrote madrigals in:
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English
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The basis for the development of great Baroque instrumental music was laid in:
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the renaissance
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Which was the most widespread of Renaissance instrumental genres?
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Dance music
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The pavan and galliard were:
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Types of renaissance dance music
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Pavans are often paired with:
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Galliards
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The pavan is in __________ meter, and the galliard is in __________ meter.
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Duple, triple
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What makes it easy for the dancers to keep their places in "Daphne"?
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the clear cadences ending the phrases
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Will Kemp was
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An actor in Shakespeare's plays
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Which is true of "Ave maris stella"?
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It is a homophonic setting of a Gregorian hymn
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In "Ave maris stella," which stanzas consist of the unembellished plainchant?
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1, 3, and 5
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Who composed the Pange lingua Mass?
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Josquin Desprez
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The composer used the melody of the plainsong hymn _________ as the basis of the Pange lingua Mass.
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"Pange lingua"
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What is the predominant texture of Pange lingua?
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Imitative polyphony
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Desprez's polyphonic chanson "Mille regrets" is notable for its:
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expressive matching of music to words.
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Who composed the Pope Marcellus Mass?
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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What is the predominant texture of "Qui tollis" from the Gloria of the Pope Marcellus Mass?
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Homophony
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How does the "Qui tollis" from Pope Marcellus differ from the "Qui tollis" in the Pange lingua Mass?
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It uses more voices and alternates choirs; it is more homophonic
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The purpose of Pope Marcellus was to:
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Worship God
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"As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending" is a:
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Madrigal
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The text of "As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending" involves:
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Queen Elizabeth and mythological figures
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"As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending" demonstrates:
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Word painting
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"Daphne" is a
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Galliard
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The texture of "Daphne" is:
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Homophonic
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The purpose of "Kemp's Jig" is:
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Listening enjoyment
