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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 Renaissance may be described as an age of

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-curiosity and individualism -exploration and adventure -the "rebirth" or human creativity -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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The intellectual movement called humanism

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-focused on human life and its accomplishments

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The dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was called

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-humanism

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Which of the following statements is not true of humanism?

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-the humanisms were basically atheistic in their beliefs

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In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were

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-priests

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A virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages was held by

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-monk in monasteries

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During the Middle Ages, women

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-were not permitted to sing in church

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Church officials expected monks to sing with

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-proper pronunciation and tone quality

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Bernard of Clairvaux ordered his monks to sing

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-vigorously with manliness

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The church frowned on instruments because of their

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-earlier role in pagan rites

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The use of organs in church

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-distracted the listeners from worship

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What we know about instruments in church comes mainly form

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-the pictures and literary descriptions of the day

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Most medieval music was

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-vocal

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We know from paintings and literary descriptions of the Middle Ages that

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-instruments were used

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The view of the later medieval church on music during religious services was that it should be

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-used only as a discreet accompaniment

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Church authorities in the Middle Ages _______ their religious services

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-wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to

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The music the Medieval monks sang was called

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-Gregorian chant

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Gregorian chant

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-is set to sacred Latin texts -retained some elements of the Jewish synagogue of the first centuries after Christ -was the official music of the Roman Catholic church for more than 1,000 years -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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Gregorian chant

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-is monophonic in texture

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Gregorian chant consists of

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-melody sung without accompaniment

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Which of the following is not true of Gregorian chant?

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-it is usually polyphonic in texture

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Gregorian chant is seldom heard today because

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-it is very difficult to sing, and those who know how are dying out -the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 decreed the use of the vernacular in church services -it is too old-fashioned for modern services -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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Gregorian chant melodies tend to move

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-stepwise within a narrow range of pitches

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Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who

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-was credited by medieval legend with having created it

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Pope Gregory the Great

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-reorganized the Catholic church liturgy during his reign from 590 to 604

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The two types of services at which monks and nuns sang were

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-the office and the mass

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The highlight of the day for monks and nuns was

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-the mass

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The earliest surviving chant manuscripts date from about the ______ century

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-ninth

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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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The church modes are

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-like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven tones and an eighth tone that duplicates the first an octave higher

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Alleluia

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-may be translated as "praise ye the Lord" -is a Latinized form of the Hebrew word hallelujah -is often used in Gregorian chants -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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The form of the chant Alleluia: Vidimus steam is

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-ABA

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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 -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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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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The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notion was composed

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-during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

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The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed by

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-French nobles called troubadours and trouvères

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The French secular songs of the Middle Ages usually dealt with

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-the Crusades -spinning -love -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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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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Which of the following statements is not true of secular music in the Middle Ages?

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-the medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were accordingly ranked on a high social level

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A famous French woman troubadour was

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-Beatriz de Dia

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Beatriz de Dia was

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-one of a number of women troubadours

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The notation of the secular songs of the Middle Ages does not indicate

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-rhythm

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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 wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages

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-performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares -lived on the lowest level of society -played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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As a young student in Paris, Henri de Malines sang

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-monophonic songs in various languages

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One function of secular music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for

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-dancing

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An estampie is a medieval

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-dance

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Which of the following statements is not true of the medieval estampie?

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-it was intended for religious services

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In the recording of the medieval estampie, the melody is played on a rebec, a

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-bowed string instrument

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The first steps 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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The first steps toward the development of polyphony were taken sometime between 700 and 900, when

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-monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line to Gregorian chant

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______ is a term applied to medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one of more additional melodic lines

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-Organum

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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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Which of the following statements is not true?

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-medieval music theorists favored the use of triads, the basic consonant chords of music

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The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was

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-Paris

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In medieval times, most polyphonic music was created by

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-placing new melodic lines against known chants

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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 -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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The earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm were

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-Leonin and Perotin

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An outstanding composer of the school of Notre Dame was

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-Perotin

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Among other causes, secular music became more important than sacred music in the fourteenth century because

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-the literature of the time stressed earthly sensuality -rival popes claimed authority at the same time, thereby wakening the authority of the church -the feudal system had gone into decline -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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One of the major characteristics of are nova music is its use of

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-syncopation

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Secular music in the fourteenth century

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-became more important than sacred music -was not based on Gregorian chant -included drinking songs and pieces in which bird calls, dog barks, and hunting shouts were imitated -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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The term as nova refers to

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-Italian and French music of the fourteenth century

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A new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by the

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-early fourteenth century

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The ars nova or new art 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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An outstanding composer of the ars nova was

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-Guillaume de Machaut

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Guillaume de Machaut was a ______ as wel musician

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-court official -poet -priest -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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Guillaume de Machaut's compositions consists mainly of

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-love songs with instrumental accompaniment

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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 Renaissance in music occurred between

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-1450 and 1600

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Which of the following statements is not true of the Renaissance?

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-the Catholic church was even more powerful in the Renaissance than during the Middle Ages

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Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what was then

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-Flanders

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Which of the following statements is not true of Renaissance music?

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-instrumental music became more important than vocal music during the Renaissance

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The leading music center in sixteenth-century Europe was

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-Italy

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The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly

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-polyphonic

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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 one melody -the bass register is used for the first time -the typical choral piece has four, five, or six voice parts of nearly equal melodic interest -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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A cappella refers to

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-unaccompanied choral music

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Renaissance melodies are usually easy to sing because

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-the melody often moves along a scale with a few large leaps

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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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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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Which of the following is not a part of the Renaissance mass?

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-Alleluia

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Josquin Desprez spent much of his life in

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-Italy

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Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of

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-Christopher Columbus

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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 Hainut, today a part of Belgium

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Palestrina's career centered in

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-Rome

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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 movement in which the Catholic church sought to correct abuses and malpractices within its structure is known as

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-the Counter-Reformation

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An attempt was made to purify Catholic Church music as a result of the

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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 tunes, 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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The Renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in

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-Italy

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During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to

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-read musical notation -play a musical instrument -be skilled in dance -ALL ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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Which of the following composers is not an important madrigalist?

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-Josquin Desprez

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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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The madrigal anthology The Triumphes of Oriana was written in honor of

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-Queen Elizabeth I

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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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Besides madrigal, the _______ was another type of secular vocal music which enjoyed popularity during the Renaissance

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-lute song

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The ________ was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home

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-lute

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The lute song was widely cultivated in England from

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-the late 1590's to the 1620's

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Lute songs are mostly ________ in texture

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-homophonic

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A leading English composer of lute songs was

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-John Dowland

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The expression of _______, as heard in John Dowland's Flow My Tears, was a prominent feature of English literature and music in the time of William Shakespeare

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-melancholy

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John Dowland's Flow My Tears consists of ________ musical sections that are each immediately repeated

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-three

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In most lute songs, the lute accompaniment

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-is subordinate to the voice

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Which of the following statements regarding the Renaissance is not true?

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-much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for church use

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Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for

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-dancing

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Terpsichore, a collection of over 300 dance tunes, was arranged for instrumental ensemble by

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-Michael Praetorius

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The passamezzo is a

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-stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavane

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A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear, popular during the Renaissance, was the

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-lute

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