Music Theory: Middle Age/ Renaissance – Flashcards
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Which of the following statements is not true of humanism?
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The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs
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In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were
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Priests
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A virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages was held by
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Monks in monasteries
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During the Middle Ages, women
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were not permitted to sing in church
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Church officials expected monks to sing with
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Proper pronunciation and the clarity of tone clarity
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Bernard of Clairvaux ordered his monks to sing
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Vigorously with manliness
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The church frowned on instruments because of their
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earlier role in pagan rites
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The use of organs in church
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Distracted the listeners from worship
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What we know about instruments in church comes mainly from
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the pictures and literary descriptions of the day
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Most medieval music was
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vocal
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We know from paintings and literary descriptions of the Middle Ages that
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instruments were used
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The view of the later medieval church on music during religious services was that it should be
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Used only as a discreet accompaniment
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Church authorities in the Middle Ages
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wanted music in their religious services as a discreet accompaniment
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The music of the Medieval monks and was called
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Gregorian chant
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Gregorian chant
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Gregorian chant consists of
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melody sung without accompaniment
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Which of the following is not true of Gregorian chant?
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It is usually polyphonic in texture
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Gregorian chant is seldom heard today because
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Gregorian chant melodies tend to move
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Stepwise
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Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who
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apparently created it (medieval legend)
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Pope Gregory the Great
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Reorganized the Catholic church liturgy during his reign from 590-604
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The two types of services at which monks and nuns sang were
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the office and the mass
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The highlight of the day for monks and nuns was
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the mass
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The earliest surviving chant manuscripts date from about the _______ century
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9th
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The church modes were
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The basic scales of Western music during the Middle Ages
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The Church modes are
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like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven tones and an eighth tone that duplicates the first an octave higher
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Alleluia
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The form of the chant Alleluia: Vidimus stellam is
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ABA
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Hildegard of Bingen was
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The earliest extant liturgical morality play, Ordo virtutum (Play of the Virtues), was composed by
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Hildegard of Bingen
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The first large body of secular songs that survives in the decipherable notation was composed
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during the 12th and 13th centuries
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The French secular songs of the Middle Ages usually dealt with
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love, crusades, and spinning (all answers)
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The first large body of secular songs that survives in the decipherable notation was composed
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French nobles called troubadours and traverse
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Trouvere songs of the Middle Ages dealt with all of the following subjects except
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religion
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Which of the following statements is not true of secular music in the Middle Ages?
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The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time where there were no newspapers, were accordingly ranked on a social level
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A famous French woman troubadour was
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Beatriz de Dia
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Beatriz de Dia was
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a woman troubadour
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The notation of the secular songs in the Middle Ages does not indicate
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Rhythm
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The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were
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On the lowest social level
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As a young student in Paris, Henri de Malines sang
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Monophonic songs in various languages
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One function of secular music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for
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dancing
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An estampie is a medieval
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dance
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Which of the following statements is not true of the medieval estampie?
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It was intended for religious services
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In the recording of the medieval estampie, the melody is played on a rebec, a
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medieval bowed string instrument
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The first steps in a revolution that eventually transformed Western music began sometime between 700 and 900 with the
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addition of a second melodic line to Gregorian Chant
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The first steps toward the development of polyphony were taken sometime between 700 and 900, when
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monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line to Gregorian Chant
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______________ is a term applied to medieval music that consists of Gregorian Chant and one or more additional melodic lines
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Organum
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Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines is called
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Organum
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Medieval music theorists favored the use of triads, he basic consonant chords of music
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The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was
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Paris
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In medieval times, most polyphonic music was created by
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Placing new melodic lines against known chants
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Leonin and Pertain are notable because they
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The earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm were
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Leonin and Petronin
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An outstanding composer of the school of Notre Dame was
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Perotin
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Among other causes, secular music became more important than sacred music in the 14th century because
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The term ars nova music is its use of
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syncopation
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Secular music in the 14th century
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The term ars nova refers to
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Italian and French music of the 14th century
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A new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by the
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early 14th century
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The ars nova or new art differed from older music in that
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A new system of notation permitted composers to specify almost any rhythmic pattern
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An outstanding composer of the ars nova was
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Guillaume de Machaut
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Guillaume de Machaut was a _________ as well musician
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Guilliame de Machut's compositions consist mainly of
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Love songs with instrumental accompaniment
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Which of the following is not a part of the mass ordinary?
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Ave Maria
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The Renaissance in music occurred between
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1450-1600
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Which of the following statements is not true of the Renaissance?
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The Catholic church was even more powerful in the Renaissance that during the Middle Ages
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Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what was then
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Flanders (Belgium)
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Which of the following statements is not true of Renaissance music?
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Instrumental music became more important that vocal music during the Renaissance
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The leading music center in the 16th century Europe was
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Italy
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The texture of the Renaissance music is chiefly
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Polyphonic
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Renaissance music sounds fuller than medieval music because
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A capella refers to
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unaccompanied choral music
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Renaissance melodies are usually easy to sing because
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The melody often moves a long a scale with a few large leaps
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The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the mass and the
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Motet
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The Renaissance motet is a
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Polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass
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Which of the following is not a part of the Renaissance mass?
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Alleluia
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Josquin Deprez spent much of his life in
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Italy
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Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of
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Christopher Columbus
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Which of the following is not true?
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Joaquin spent most of his life in the province of Hainaut, today a part of Belgium
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Palestrina's career centered in
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Rome
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Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina's
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Music includes 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works
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The movement in which the Catholic church sought to correct abuses and malpractices within its structure is known as
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the Counter-Reformation
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An attempt was made to purify Catholic church music as a result of the
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Deliberations of the Council of Trent
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The Council of Trent attacked the church music of the Renaissance because it
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used secular tunes, noisy instruments, and theatrical singing
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Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass sounds fuller than Joaquin's Ave Maria because
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Six voices instead of 4
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The Renaissance madrigal began around in 1520 in
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Italy
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During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to
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Which of the following composers in not an important madrigalist?
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Joaquin Desprez
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The Renaissance madrigal is a
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Piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, about love
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The development of the English madrigal can be traced to 1588 and considered a result of
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the publication in London of a volume of translated Italian madrigals
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The madrigal anthology The Triumphes of Oriana was written in the honor of
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Queen Elizabeth 1
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Thomas Weekly's As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its
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word painting
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Besides the madrigal, the __________ was another type of secular vocal music which enjoyed popularity during the Renaissance
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Lute song
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The ______ was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home
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lute
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