Music Appreciation: Chapters 6 & 7 – Flashcards
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Who composed "In paradisum"?
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not known
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How would you characterize the mood of "In paradisum"?
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slow and solemn
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"In paradisum" is sung by
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men's voices
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In the last line of "In paradisum," the last syllable of the word aeternam
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slowly rises and falls in pitch
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The melodic high point of "In paradisum" is on the word
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slowly rises and falls in pitch
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Who composed "Columba aspexit"?
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Lazaro
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Which structure do you hear in "Columba aspexit"?
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Hildegard of Bingen
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The performing forces in "Columba aspexit" consist of:
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A number of tunes sung twice with one single tune at the end
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The performing forces in "Columba aspexit" consist of:
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one solo female voice, a female choir, and a drone.
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What is the texture of "Columba aspexit," excluding the instrumental accompaniment?
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monophony
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Which does not change throughout "Columba aspexit"?
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instrumental accompaniment
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Which changes provide contrast in "Columba aspexit"?
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changes from the soloist to a group of singers
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Who composed "La dousa votz"?
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Bernart de Ventadorn
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What type of selection is "La dousa votz"?
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troubadour song
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The performing forces in "La dousa votz" are
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a male vocal soloist and a plucked stringed instrument
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The form of "La dousa votz" can be described as having
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several stanzas in an a a′ b form.
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Which is true of the rhythm of "La dousa votz"?
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The meter is duple
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Who composed "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia"?
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Pérotin
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When was "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia" written?
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1200
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The performing forces in "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia" are
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male voices, unaccompanied
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Which textures do you hear in "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia"?
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monophony, then organum, then monophony
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Which is true of the rhythm of "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia"?
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The meter is free, then compound duple, then free.
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Which is true of the relative speed of the upper and lower voices during the organum section of "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia"?
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The higher voices move more quickly than the lower voices.
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The chant in "Alleluia Diffusa est gratia," sung by the lowest voice, at times
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is reduced to a series of lengthy drones.
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Who composed "Sumer Is Icumen In"?
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not known
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What can be heard below the four voices singing the main tune of "Sumer Is Icumen In"?
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two low voices repeating "sing cuckoo"
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Who composed "Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient"?
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Guillaume de Machaut
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The performing forces in "Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient" are
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four voices.
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What contributes to the intricacy of "Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient"?
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the complex polyphony
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Which do you hear in "Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient"?
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long melismas on many syllables
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The Middle Ages, or medieval era, covers the time period of the:
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fifth century to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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The early history of Western music was dominated by:
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The Christian church
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Most of the music of medieval times that has been preserved for us was written down by
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monks and other members of religious orders
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The type of music most likely to be written down in the Middle Ages was
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religious music
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A lengthy ceremony that might happen more than once a day in cathedrals and monasteries is known as:
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The Mass
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The single-line melodies of the early Christian church are known as
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plainchant
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Another term for Gregorian chant is
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plainchant
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Who is traditionally associated with collecting and codifying the chants of the church?
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Pope Gregory the 1st
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The role of a chant in church services defines the chant's
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genre
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Which is not a characteristic of plainchant?
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it is metered
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Which two characteristics do all plainchants share?
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All are non metrical and use medival modes
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A medieval mode is
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A different way of orienting the scale
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The medieval modes were traced back to ancient
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Greece
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Which is not a medieval mode?
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Grecian
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Routine texts of church services typically used
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Simple recitation on a single pitch
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"In paradisum" is an example of a(n)
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antiphon
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"In paradisum" would most likely have been used
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As a procession from the church to the graveyard
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"In paradisum" is part of the liturgy for
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the dead
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"In paradisum" is sung by
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the priest and an entire religious community
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A plainchant sequence consists of
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A series of short tunes repeated with some variation
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Hildegard of Bingen composed in the ________ century
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twelfth
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The subject of "Columba aspexit" is
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praise for St. Maximinus.
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Which composition is a plainchant sequence?
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"Columba aspexit"
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Which is true about the sources of artistic and political influence over the course of the Middle Ages?
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Kings and barons gained influence, but the Christian church retained some power
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The troubadours, trouvères, and Minnesingers date back to the ________ centuries.
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12th and 13th centuries
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Who were the medieval poet-composers of southern France?
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troubadours
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Who was a troubadour?
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Countess Beatriz of Dia
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Subjects reflected in the poems of the troubadours and trouvères include all except:
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religious praise
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Who were considered the popular musicians of the Middle Ages?
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jongleurs
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Which is a "dawn song"? alba estampie pastourelle jongleur
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alba
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Which is true of Bernart de Ventadorn?
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He had a humble background, but worked for Queen Eleanmor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II.
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Which characteristic makes "La dousa votz" different from "Columba aspexit"?
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"La dousa votz" is secular
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The meaning of the text of "La dousa votz" involves
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betrayal in love.
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The few surviving medieval court dances are called:
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estampies.
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Estampies are considered
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unassuming one-line dance pieces repeated many times in varied forms.
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Which is commonly observed of the way early music was notated?
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Tempo was never indicated in the score.
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The earliest type of polyphony, dating from around 900 C.E., is
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Organum
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The early compositional style consisting of a plainchant melody with another melody sung simultaneously with the same words is called
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organum
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Early polyphony flourished at
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Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
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Who were the two great composers of the Notre Dame school?
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Léonin and Pérotin
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Pérotin composed "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia" for
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The Mass
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What happened to polyphonic music during the thirteenth century?
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It became more and more removed from church services
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The medieval polyphonic form that resulted from the addition of texts to the upper parts while retaining the Gregorian chant in the lower part is called the
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motet
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The meaning of the text of "Sumer Is Icumen In" involves
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Celebration of the arrival of summer
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Music of the Notre Dame school was later referred to as
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ars antiqua.
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In Western music, the musical style in the period after 1300 was called
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ars nova
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One of the chief characteristics of the late medieval motet is
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intricate and complex rhythmic combinations.
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In the ars nova, which genre was increasingly intricate, using complex rhythm patterns
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motet
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An outstanding composer of the French ars nova was:
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Guillaume de Machaut.
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Guillaume de Machaut composed in the ________ century.
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14th
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Guillaume de Machaut was not only a composer but also a:
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poet
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"Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient" is a:
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chanson
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Which part of "Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient" has the plainchant fragment?
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there is no plainchant fragment
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The text of "Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient" involves:
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chivalric love
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The polyphony that occurs in "Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient" features long melismas on many syllables, a feature that looks back to:
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organum
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What is Ave maris stella?
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It is a homophonic setting of a Gregorian hymn
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What are the performing forces in "Ave maris sella"?
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A choir of high and low voices
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Who composed the Pange lingua Mass
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Josquiz Desprez
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The preforming forces in Pange lingua consists of a
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choir of high and low voices
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What is the predominant texture of Pange lingua
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imitative polyphony
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Who composed "Mille regrets"?
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Josquin Desprez
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Who composed Pope Marcellus Mass
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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The preforming forces in Pope Marcellus consist of
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voices alone
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What is the predominant texture of the " Qui tollis" from the Gloria of the Pope Marcellus Mass
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homophony
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How does the "Qui tollis" in Pope Marcellus differe from the "Qui tollis" in Pange lingua
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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 Decending" is a
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madrigal
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The text of "As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Decending" involves
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Queen Elizabeth and mythological figures
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"As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Decending" demonstrates
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word painting
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The performing forces in "As Vesta Was from Latmost Hill Decending" consists of
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male and female vocal soloists
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"Daphne" is a
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galliard
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The performing forces in "Daphne" consists of
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early violins
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The texture of "Daphne" is
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homophonic
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The meter of Kemp's Jig" is
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duple
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What is the form of "Kemp's Jig"
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a a b repeated several times
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The purpose of "Kemp's Jig" was
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for listening enjoyment
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In the early Renaissance, composers concentrated on the ___________ rather then the ____________ of the plainchant.
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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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Where was Guillaume Dufay (and mny 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 service of the Christian liturgy was
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the Mass
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There are __________ standard section of 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, & the chanson in the High Renaissance?
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imitative counterpoint and homophony
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How did polyphone 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, fluid, and shifting
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Who as 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 fo tpange lingua Mass is
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"Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison"
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What is a point of imitation
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a passage of imitative polyphone usually using one musical motive
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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; polyphony
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Renaissance composers were inspired to explore the power of music to express human feelings. There 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 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 device did Renaissance composers use to depict the music in 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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Which composer worked in the repressive atmosphere of the Counter-Reformation movement
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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How many vocal parts did Palestrina use in Gloria of Pope Marcellus Mass
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six
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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 typically sung by one singer and having alternation section 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 is called
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"As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending"
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The most significant difference between the Italian madrigal and the English madrigal is the 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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Which was the most widespread Renaissance instrumental genre?
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dance music
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The pavan and galliard are
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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
