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The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning:

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450-1450

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The Romanesque period in Europe encompassed the years:

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1000-1150

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The gothic period in Europe encompassed the years:

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1150-1450

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The "dark ages" in Europe:

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Began about 450 with the disintegration of the Roman Empire

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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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