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Dark ages refers to

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the time between 500 and 1000 CE

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The two centers of power during the early Middle Ages were the church and

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a newly formed centralized governments led by kings

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The Frankish emperor who encouraged education and the concept of a centralized government

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Charlemagne

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Why was the art music of the Middle Ages predominantly religious?

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The church patronized music extensively

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Of the following which is not a major literary landmark of the Middle Ages

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Cervante's Don Quixote

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Of the following, which does NOT represent the thinking of the Renaissance

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an exclusively religious orientation

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Why is Renaissance painting considered to be more realistic than medieval painting?

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Renaissance painters created a perspective that made it possible to see the whole simultaneously

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Why does Gregorian chant sound so different from other types of Western music?

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There is no harmony

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Early notation suggested melodic contours using small ascending and descending signs called

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neumes

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The portion of the Mass that remains the same in every celebration of the service is called

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the Ordinary

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The portions of the Mass that changes from day to day, depending on the time, is called

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the Proper

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The earliest type of polyphony was

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organum

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Polyphany required the development of

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rhythmic modes

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The Notre Dame style of polyphony was called

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plainsong

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Early polyphonic genre that resulted from the addition of texts to all voices

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motet

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Sumer is icumen in exemplifies what compositional device?

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round

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Music of the 14th c developed a style that became known as

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the Ars nova

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Which of the following does NOT characterize Puis qu'en oubli?

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it has a monophonic texture

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Medieval instruments can be classified as bas or haut, meaning

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high or low

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The medieval ancestor of the modern trombone is

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the sackbut

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Why does Renaissance music sound different from medieval music

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it has fuller harmonies

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the fixed melody used as a basis for elaborate polyphonic writing in the Renaissance was called

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a cantus firmus

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Movements of the Ordinary of the Mass

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Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

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Du Fay's L'homme arme Mass is considered to be

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a cantus firmus Mass

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How does the Renaissance motet differ from its medieval predecessor?

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it had only one text in Latin

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What is the musical basis of Josquin's Ave Maria...virgo serena?

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a Gregorian chant in the top voice, then freely composed

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After the Protestant revolt of the early sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church responded with a movement to recapture the loyalty of its people. This was known as:

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the Counter-Reformation

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How did the Council of Trent feel about instrumentation in church music?

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not bout it

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Which composer responded to the reforms of the Council of Trent in an exemplary fashion?

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Palestrina

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The expressive device used by Renaissance composers to pictorialize words musically is called

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word painting

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What was the most important secular genre of the sixteenth century?

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the madrigal

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The vivid depiction of the text through music, known as word painting, is a hallmark of

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the madrigal

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The late Renaissance madrigal came to full flower in the music of

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Claudio Monteverdi

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T/F: the character of Farmer's Far Phyllis is pastoral and light

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T

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T/F: most of the surviving music from the Middle Ages is secular

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F

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T/F: the early exploration of the New World took place during the Renaissance

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T

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T/F: the order of church services and the structure of each service are known as the liturgy

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T

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T/F: a setting of plainchant with many notes per syllable is called syllabic

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F

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T/F: an early center for the development of polyphony was the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

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T

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T/F: in the early Middle Ages, music was often written in fixed patterns of long and short notes known as rhythmic modes

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T

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T/F: troubadours and trouveres were medieval poet-musicians

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T

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T/F: since Machaut was a cleric in the church, he wrote only sacred music

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F

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T/F: Josquin's career centered exclusively in his native France

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F

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T/F: the dense counterpoint in the Pope Marcellus Mass obscures the words

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F

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T/F: England adopted the Italian madrigal and developed it into a native form

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T

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