Music Appreciation: Chapters 6-8 Exam (reading) - Flashcards

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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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During the early Middle Ages, the institution(s) that preserved written records of its(their) culture, including music, was(were) the:

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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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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 I

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Gregorian chant was organized around C.E.:

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600

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Gregorian chant is so named because Pope Gregory I:

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organized the chants

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The role of a chant in church services defines the chant's:

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mode

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Which is not a characteristic of plainchant?

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It is metered.

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Music for the 150 psalms sung every week was ________, while other music could be ________.

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simple; more complex

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Which two characteristics do all plainchants share?

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All are nonmetrical and use medieval modes

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A medieval mode is:

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one of a system of scales

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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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On which musical element is the artistic effect of plainchant based?

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melody

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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 the entire religious community

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After the initial "In paradisum," the music:

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becomes more and more melodic

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The mourners singing "In paradisum" in the Middle Ages would have identified with the text referring to:

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Lazarus

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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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Hildegard's music is a product of:

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her own poetry and her own plainchants

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The subject of "Columba aspexit" is:

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praise for Saint 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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twelfth and thirteenth

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Who were the medieval poet-musicians of southern France?

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trabadours

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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 included 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"?

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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 Eleanor 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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estamples

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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 C.E. 900, was:

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organum

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The early compositional style consisting of a plainchant melody with another melody sung simultaneously to the same words is called:

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organum

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Early polyphony had its beginnings 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, 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, what genre is increasingly secular, 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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fourteenth

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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 has the plainchant fragment in "Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient"?

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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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romantic 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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the style of organum

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Chant is the musical basis for all of the following except:

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"Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient."

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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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5

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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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16th

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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, England, and Madrid.

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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 began in the early Renaissance and changed drastically during that era. (could be wrong)

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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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"As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending"

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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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At the end of the Renaissance an influential group of Florentines reacted against the madrigal because of its:

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word painting

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Opera began in:

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Florence around 1600

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In the early Baroque period, composers subdivided choirs in order to exploit more:

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sonorous effects

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Which texture gained prominence in seventeenth-century Venice?

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homophony

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Musical form in the early Baroque period was becoming:

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more controlled and systematic

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Who were the most important composers in Venice around 1600?

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Andrea Gabrieli and Giovanni Gabrieli

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Where did the Gabrielis work?

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St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice

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"O magnum mysterium" was written for:

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Christmas

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The Baroque period spans the years:

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1600 to 1750

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The original meaning of baroque was:

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a large, irregularly shaped pearl

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In the Baroque period, rhythm became more:

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regular

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Which accurately describes the Baroque treatment of meter?

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Meter became more accepted; bar lines came into use

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The term basso continuo:

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refers to the bass line and continuous chords of a Baroque composition

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Which two instruments would most likely have played the basso continuo in the Baroque era?

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cello and harpsichord

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In Baroque music, what is the form in which there is a repeated bass figure with chords, above which the upper lines play different melodies?

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ground bass

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What feature of harmony disappears during the Baroque period?

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strong sense of tonality (could be wrong)

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Drama set to music is:

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opera

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Early Florentine operas were:

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court entertainments for events such as royal weddings.

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The first public opera theater was opened in:

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Venice in 1637

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Opera provided the perfect vehicle for the Baroque idea of:

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expressing the emotions of the individual.

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The operatic equivalent to dramatic dialogue is a(n):

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recitative

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In a recitative, the rhythm:

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follows the rhythm of speech

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Which is true of recitatives?

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There is very little accompaniment for the soloist.

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The operatic equivalent of a soliloquy or meditation is a(n):

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aria

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An aria is:

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an extended piece for a solo singer having more musical elaboration and a steadier pulse than recitative.

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Which is true of arias?

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The singer meditates on the dramatic situation at hand and emotions are "frozen" into a tableau.

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Which composer was the first whose music was attacked for being too radical?

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Claudio Monteverdi

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Who is known as the "last great madrigalist and the first great opera composer"?

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Claudio Monteverdi

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During which phase of Monteverdi's career did he compose The Coronation of Poppea?

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It was late in his career

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The plot of Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea involves:

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Nero; his mistress, Poppea; his wife, Ottavia; and his adviser, Seneca.

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An aria-like fragment in an opera that is neither a recitative nor an aria is a(n):

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arioso

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Who is considered to be the greatest English composer of the Baroque period?

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Henry Purcell

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Purcell wrote the first English examples of which genre?

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the sonata

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What was the source for Dido and Aeneas?

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the Aeneid, by Virgil

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"Remember me, but ah, forget my fate" is part of the text of:

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"When I am laid."

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What are the three main sources of instrumental music?

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dance, virtuosity, and vocal music

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In the Baroque period, dance music gained popularity because of:

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the way ballet was used in opera

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A set of dances collected from an opera or ballet is called a:

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suite

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Pieces written in the form or style of dance music but meant for listening, not dancing, are:

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stylized dances

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What characterizes the art of the early instrumental virtuosos?

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They improvised music that was rarely written down

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Which feature of vocal music was transferred to Baroque instrumental music?

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imitative polyphonic texture

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Points of imitation in vocal music led to the development of the __________ in instrumental music.

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fugue

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A Baroque composition that treats one melody imitatively is called a:

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fugue

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Fugues were composed and improvised mainly by:

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keyboard players

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The foremost organ virtuoso of the early seventeenth century was:

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Girolamo Frescobaldi

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The keyboard virtuoso and composer who was influenced a century later by Frescobaldi's music was:

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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A keyboard genre that means "touched" in Italian is a

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toccata

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The genre of keyboard work that emphasized imitative polyphony is the:

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canzona

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A keyboard genre based on melodic or harmonic patterns borrowed from vocal music is a:

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set of variations

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Frescobaldi's Suite consists of a canzona followed by:

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two dances and a set of variations

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The balletto and corrente of Frescobaldi's Suite have a formal design that is:

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a a b b

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A set of variations on a brief harmonic progression and the bass line associated with it is a:

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passacaglia

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The passacaglia in Frescobaldi's Suite bears a close relationship to the:

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ostinato

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