Question 1

The modes were developed from the major and minor scales.  T or F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

A setting of Gregorian chant with two to four notes per syllable might be considered:

Accepted Answer

neumatic

Question 3

________ is traditionally associated with collecting and organizing the chants of the church.

Accepted Answer

Pope Gregory the Great

Question 4

Which of the following women was a religious leader and a prominent figure in literature and music?

Accepted Answer

Hildegard of Bingen

Question 5

The dance music that Susato published is monophonic.  T or F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

An early center for the development of polyphony was the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.  T or F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

In what era did composers begin to be recognized?

Accepted Answer

the Gothic era

Question 8

The earliest type of polyphony was:

Accepted Answer

organum

Question 9

The Notre Dame style of polyphony, in which the tenor line was based on a preexisting chant melody and the upper voice moved freely (and more rapidly), was called:

Accepted Answer

organum

Question 10

Music and mathematics have been linked since the time of the ancient Greeks.  T orF

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Troubadours and trouvÃ¨res were medieval musicians often living on the fringes of society.  T or F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

During the fourteenth century, a style of music developed that became known as:

Accepted Answer

the Ars nova

Question 13

The French courtly love song of the Middle Ages was called the:

Accepted Answer

chanson

Question 14

Which of the following does NOT characterize Ma fin est mon commencement?

Accepted Answer

it has a monophonic texture

Question 15

Which of the following was NOT a subject reflected in the poems of the troubadours and trouvÃ¨res?

Accepted Answer

the rebirth of Classical learning

Question 16

Italian madrigalists set words such as weeping, trembling, and dying with great expression.  T or F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

The printing press had little impact on secular music.  T or F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

The two most important genres of Renaissance secular music were the chanson and the madrigal.  T or F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

word-painting

Question 20

Where was the madrigal first developed?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 21

Which of the following best describes the character of Farmer\'s Fair Phyllis?

Accepted Answer

pastoral and light

Question 22

Why are the madrigals of Arcadelt so important?

Accepted Answer

they brought a new level of expression to the madrigal

Question 23

Josquin\'s career centered exclusively in his native France.  T or F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

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

Accepted Answer

a cantus firmus

Question 25

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

Accepted Answer

a Gregorian chant in the top voice, then a freely composed melody

Question 26

Which early Renaissance composer exerted a powerful influence on generations of composers who followed?

Accepted Answer

Josquin des Prez

Question 27

Which of the following characterizes humanism?

Accepted Answer

thinking centered on human issues and individuality    inspiration from the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome    independence from tradition and religion    (all of the above)

Question 28

Martin Luther launched the Reformation movement.  T or F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

The upper voice parts of the Pope Marcellus Mass were sung by boy sopranos or adult males with high voices.  T or F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

The portion of the Mass that changes from day to day, depending on the feast celebrated, is called:

Accepted Answer

the Proper

Question 31

Because Machaut was a cleric in the church, he wrote only sacred music.  T or F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 32

The Crusades had little impact on the development of Western civilization.  T or F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

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

Accepted Answer

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Question 34

Which of the following best describes the texture of the Pope Marcellus Mass?

Accepted Answer

six-voice polyphony

Question 35

Which of the following was a leader in the Protestant Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther

Question 36

Instrumental music of the sixteenth century often did not specify its instrumentation.  T or F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

The sixteenth century saw a blossoming of instrumental dance music.  T or F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Medieval instruments can be classified as bas or haut, meaning:

Accepted Answer

soft or loud

Question 39

The medieval ancestor of the modern trombone is the:

Accepted Answer

sackbut

Question 40

Which of the following was a lively circle or line dance, often performed outdoors?

Accepted Answer

ronde

Question 41

The outstanding composer-poet of the Ars nova was:

Accepted Answer

Machaut

Question 42

What is the form of a rondeau?

Accepted Answer

ABaAabAB

Question 43

The knowledge of early civilizations and the culture of the Middle Ages were preserved largely in monasteries.  T or F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 44

Which of the following does NOT characterize plainchant?

Accepted Answer

triadic harmonies

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