Music Appreciation Quiz 1 – Flashcards
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During the Middle Ages, Woman
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Were not permitted to participate in church services
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Most medieval music was
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Vocal
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Gregorian chant
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All of the above
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Texture of Gregorian chant is
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monophonic
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Gregorian chant consists of
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Melody sung without accompaniment
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Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory 1, who
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Was credited by medieval legend with having created it, even though it evolved over many centuries
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Alleluia
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All of the above
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The form of the chant Alleluia: Vidimus stellam is
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ABA
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The large and highly important body of secular songs was composed
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During the 12th and 13th centuries by poet-composers called troubadours and trouvères
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Which statement is correct
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All troubadours and trouvères were noble
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Trouvère songs of the middle ages dealt with all the following subjects except
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Religion
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A famous French woman troubadour was
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Beatriz, Countess of Dia
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The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were
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Ranked on a high social level
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An estampie is a
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Medieval dance played by medieval minstrels
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The first step 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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________ Is a term applied to medieval music that consist of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines
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Organum
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The melody added to the Gregorian chant to form organum around 1100 was usually _______ the original chant
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Much slower than
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The center of the polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was
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Paris
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The earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm was
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Leonin and Perotin
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Leonin and Perotin are notable because they
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All of the above
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A new system of music notation which 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, of the fourteenth century 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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The leading composer of the 14th century France was
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Guillaume de Machaut
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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 Notre Dame mass by Guillaume de Machaut was
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All of the above
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Intellectual movement that focused more on human life and it's accomplishments rather than an afterlife and heaven or hell, affected strongly the renaissance art. What is it?
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Humanism
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The Renaissance in music occurred between
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1450 and 1600
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The renaissance may be described as an age of
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All of the above
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Which of the following statements is not true of the intellectual movement of the renaissance known as humanism
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The humanists were basically atheistic in their believes
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Many prominent renaissance composers, who held important posts all over the continent, came from an area of Europe known at the time as
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Flanders
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Renaissance music sounds fuller than medieval music because
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All of the above
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The texture of renaissance music is chiefly
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Polyphonic
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A capella refers to
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Unaccompanied choral music
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The two main forms of sacred renaissance music or the mass and that
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Motet
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The renaissance motet is a
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Polyphonic coral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass
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Josquin Desprez spent much of his life in
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Italy
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Which of the following statements is not true
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Josquin 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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An attempt was made to purify catholic church music as a result of that
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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 tones, 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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It is set for six voices instead of four
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During the renaissance every educated person was expected to
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All the above
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A Madrigal, like a motet, is a polyphonic vocal composition; but it differs from the motet in that it
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Both A and B
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The renaissance madrigal is a
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Piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love
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The renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in
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Italy
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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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Thomas Weelkes's As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its
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Word painting
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Among the most important Italian renaissance composers was
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Giovanni purr Luigi day palestrina
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Palestrina devoted himself to the music for
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Catholic church
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Which of the following statements is not true
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Palestrina wrote many works for the Lutheran church, including oratorios and chorales
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Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass is written for
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A cappella choir
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