Music Appreciation Test Answers – Flashcards
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is a traditionally associated with collecting and organizing the chants of the church
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Pope Gregory
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A setting of Gregorian chant with one note per syllable
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Syllabic
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A setting of Gregorian chant with two to four notes per syllable might be considered
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Nuematic
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Early notation suggested melodic contours using small ascending and descending signs called
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Neumes
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The portion of the Mass that remains the same in every celebration of the service is called
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The Ordinary
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The portion of the Mass that changes form day to day, depending on the feast celebrated, is called
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The Proper
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What is the language of the Mass?
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Latin
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Why does the Kyrie evoke the number three?
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It symbolizes the Trinity
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In what part of the liturgy does the Alleluia occur?
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Mass Proper
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What religious figure is praised in the text of Hildegard's Alleluia, O virgamediatirx?
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The Virgin Mary
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The earliest type of polyphony was
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Organum
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In Germany, aristocratic poet-musicians were called
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Minnesingers
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Summer is icumen in exemplifies what compositional device?
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Round
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Music of the fourteenth century developed a style that became known as
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The Ars Nova
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The outstanding composer-poet of the Ars nova was
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Machaut
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The French courtly love song of the Middle Ages was called the
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Chanson
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Who composed the chanson Puisqu'enoubli?
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Machaut
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Medieval instruments can be classified as bas or haut, meaning
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Soft or loud
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The fixed melody used as a basis for elaborate polyphonic writing in the Renaissance was called
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A cantus firmus
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Which of the following make up the movements of the Ordinary of the Mass?
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Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Angus Dei
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The first section of the Ordinary of the Mass, a plea for mercy in A-B-A form, is called
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The Kyrie
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What is cantus form?
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A fragment of Gregorian chant or a secular tune used as the foundation of a polyphonic Mass
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How does the Renaissance motet differ from its medieval predecessor?
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It had only one text in Latin
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Which early Renaissance composer exerted a powerful influence on generations of composers who followed?
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Josquin
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Josquin's Ave Maria... virgoserena is an example of
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A motet
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The text Ave Maria... virgoserena is
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A praise of the Virgin Mary
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After the Protestant revolt of the early sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church responded with a movement to recapture the loyalty of its people. This was known as
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The Counter-Reformation
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Which composer responded to the reforms of the Council of Trent in an exemplary fashion?
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Palestrina
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Of the following, which best describes the texture of the Pope Marcellus Mass?
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Six-voice polyphony
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The expressive device used by Renaissance composers to pictorialize words musically is called
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Word painting
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Which of the following was the most important secular genre of the sixteenth century
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The madrigal
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Where was the madrigal first developed
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Italy
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The vivid description of the text through music, known as word painting, is a hallmark of
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The Madrigal
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Why are the madrigals of Arcadelt so special?
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They brought a new level of expression to the madrigal
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The late Renaissance madrigal came to full flower in the music of
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Instruments used for outdoor performances, such as the shawm and sackbut, are categorized as
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Loud
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Which of the following would be considered an appropriate outdoor instrument?
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The shawm
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Which of the following was a lively circle or line dance, often performed outdoors?
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Ronde
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The standard form of dance pieces, whether drawn from vocal models or popular tunes, is
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Binary
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The structure known as binary from is performed
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A-A-B-B
