Music Appreciation Unit II – Flashcards
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Earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm
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Leonin and Perotin
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's
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Music includes 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works
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The Renaissance in music occurred between
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1450 and 1600
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Church authorities in the Middle Ages ________ thier religious services.
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wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to
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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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note against note of
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The _____ is a stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavane.
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passamezzo
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A famous French woman troubadour
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Beatriz de Dia
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The Renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in
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Italy
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A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear
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lute
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The term ars nova refers to
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French and Italian music of the fourteenth century
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The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the mass and the
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motet
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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 fourteenth century
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In the Middle Ages the organ
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was considered the "king of instruments"
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At first, the organ was
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a primitive instrument whose keys were operated by heavy blows of the fist
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An important woman composer of the Middle Ages
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Hildegard of Bingen
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The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages
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performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares; played dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes; lived on the lowest level of society (All of the above)
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Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass sounds fuller than Josquin's Ave Maria because
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it is set for six voices instead of four
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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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__________ is a term applied to medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines.
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Organum
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The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were
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on the lowest social level
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The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed
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during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
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The Renaissance may be described as an age of
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exploration and adventure, curiosity and individualism, the "rebirth" of human creativity (All of the above)
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Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for
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religious worship
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The passamezzo is a
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stately dance in duple meter
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One of the major characteristics of ars nova music is its use of
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syncopation
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A cappella refers to
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unaccompanied choral music
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Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of
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Christopher Columbus
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Leonin and Perotin are notable because they
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are the first important composers known by name, indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music, were the leaders of the school of Notre Dame
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Beatriz de Dia was
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one of a number of women troubadours
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Secular music in the fourteenth century
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was not based on Gregorian chant
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The earliest surviving chant manuscripts date from about the ________ century.
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ninth
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Gregorian chant
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was the official music of the Roman Catholic church for more than 1,000 years, retained some elements of the Jewish synagogue of the first centuries after Christ, is set to sacred Latin texts
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Gregorian chant consists of
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melody sung without accompaniment
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An estampie is a medieval
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dance
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During the Middle Ages, women
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were not permitted to sing in church
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The Romanesque period in Europe encompassed the years
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1000-1150
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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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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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Renaissance music sounds fuller than medieval music because
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composers considered the harmonic effect of chords rather than superimposing on melody above another, the typical choral piece has four, five, or six voice parts of nearly equal melodic interest, the bass register is used for the first time
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The Renaissance motet is a
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polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass
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An outstanding composer of the ars nova was
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Guillaume de Machaut
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A madrigal, like a motet, is a vocal composition that combines homophonic and polyphonic textures; but it differs from the motet in that it
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more often uses word painting and unusual harmonies
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Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines is called
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organum
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The church modes were
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the basic scales of western music during the Middle Ages
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Cantus firmus is the term used for
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a chant that is used as the basis for polyphony
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In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were
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priests
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Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over the continent, came from an area of Europe known at that time as
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Flanders
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Pope Gregory the Great
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reorganized the liturgy of the Catholic church during his reign from 590 to 604
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Hildegard of Bingen was
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the first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived, abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg, a visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs
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Trouvère songs of the Middle Ages dealt with all of the following subjects except
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religion
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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 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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Most medieval music was
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vocal
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Josquin Desprez spent much of his life in
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Italy
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Guillaume de Machaut was a _________ as well as a musician.
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poet
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The gothic period in Europe encompassed the years
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1150-1450
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An outstanding composer of the Notre Dame school was
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Perotin
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The French secular songs of the Middle Ages usually dealt with
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the Crusades, spinning, love
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The Notre Dame Mass by Guillaume de Machaut was
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the first polyphonic treatment of the mass ordinary by a known composer
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The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly
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polyphonic
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The earliest extant liturgical morality play, Ordo virtutum (Play of the Virtues), was composed by
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Hildegard of Bingen
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Palestrina's career centered in
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Rome
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Machaut's compositions consist mainly of
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love songs with instrumental accompaniment
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Gregorian chant
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is monophonic in texture
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A chant that is used as the basis for polyphony is known as
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cantus firmus
