Music Appreciation Unit 4 – Flashcards
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What was a tupe of wheel fiddle?
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Hurdy-Gurdy
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What was Ottaviano Petrucci known for?
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Printed the first significant collection of polyphonic music
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A sagbut was a type of cello
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False
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What was a characteristic of Palestrina's compositions?
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Dissonance was played on the weak beat
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Which composer was known for his instrumental consort compositions?
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Byrd
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One of the reasons why the chorale gained such a foothold was that the printing press allowed for hymn books to be published
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True
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A madrigal proper was through-composed
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True
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The shawm was perhaps the most popular double reed instrument of the Renaissance period
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True
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Early renaissance music was much more complex, more fragmented, and more dissonant than that of the Middle Ages
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False
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Chorales were used primarily in what setting?
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Protestant services
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Very few composers produced sacred music during the Renaissance
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False
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Dufay was best known for his consort complications
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False
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A piece of music where one part echoes or imitates another part is known as what?
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Canon
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The Renaissance period in general was considered a time of rebirth in the arts and culture
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True
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What means "the movement of different voices against one another" in Latin?
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Motet
