Elements of Music

Measures

Beats are grouped into_________ or bars.

Duple

What was the meter of Beaker's performance of Ode to Joy?

False

(T/F) All music has meter.

False

(T/F) Contrast in musical form refers to the return of the familiar.

False

(T/F) Every piece of music contains all five of the elements we study: melody, texture, rhythm, form, and harmony.

True

(T/F) Polyphonic music can also be referred to as counterpoint or contrapuntal music.

False

(T/F) Repetition in musical form refers to the arrival of something different

False

(T/F) Rondo form always follows an ABACA structural pattern.

False

(T/F) The second beat of a measure is usually the strongest.

True

(T/F) Variation in musical form refers to the return of the familiar with some changes.

True

(T/F) While there are many different approaches to describing the building blocks of music, we often break music down into five basic elements: melody, rhythm, texture, form, and harmony.

False

A Gregorian chant that features one note per syllable is melismatic.

Monophony

A group of people singing a single melody without harmony or instrumental accompaniment would be an example of which texture?

Repetition

A piece of music in AA form illustrates which principle of form?

Variation

A piece of music in AA' form illustrates which principle of form?

Contrast

A piece of music in AB form illustrates which principle of form?

Cantus Firmus

A pre-existing melody that forms the basis of a polyphonic composition is called a(n):

homophony

A round, such as "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," would be an example of which texture?

True

A troubadour was a male and a trobairitz was a female.

False

According to her vida, Beatriz of Dia was married to William of Poitiers but was in love with Guillaume de Machaut.

homophony

Choral music in which the parts have mostly the same rhythms at the same time would be an example of which texture?

monophonic

If a group of singers all sing the same musical line together, the texture is:

False

If a piece of music features three parts or lines of music, and each part is independent of the other two (for example, entering at different times than the others), then the texture of the piece would be homophonic.

Ternary

If a piece of music has three sections we say its form is:

True

If a soloist or a group of singers are all singing the same melodic line and something else is playing along with them (guitar, piano, cello), the texture cannot be monophony.

imitative

If counterpoint starts with a single voice (or part) presenting a melodic idea that is then followed by another voice repeating the same idea, we would say that the counterpoints is:

Triple Meter

If the meter of a piece of music has a "Strong-weak-weak-strong-weak-weak" pattern it is

long groups of notes per syllable

If the text setting for a Gregorian chant is melismatic, then the music features:

False

Melody is the only musical element on which form is based.

Meter

Organizing beats into regular groups produces which musical term?

ABA, ABACA

Select all the answers that are NOT examples of binary form.

Trobairitz

The _______ were female troubadours, the first female composers of secular music in the Western traditions

Cantus Firmus

The earliest polyphonic compositions almost always involved a(n) ___________, typically a Gregorian chant.

Rhythm

The musical element that deals with the placement of the sounds (of a piece of music) in time is:

False

The principle of contrast is represented by music that is the same as music heard earlier in a piece.

True

The principle of variation is represented by music that is similar to but not the same as music heard earlier in a piece.

Monophonic

The texture of Gregorian Chant is

polyphonic

The texture of Organum is __________ with long sustained pitches in the lowest voice parts

polyphonic

The texture of Troubador songs are usually song by one person not a chior, and there is simple instrumental accompaniment making the texture

homophonic

The texture of motet is

Notre Dame style organum

What is the name of the early polyphonic style in which the notes of a Gregorian chant are held out as long notes while new, florid (active) lines are added above it?

Triple

What was the meter of Gonzo's performance?

Leoninus

Which composer likely collected organum compositions associated with the Notre Dame school into the Magnus liber organi?

Beatriz, Countess of Dia

Which composer was a trobairitz from whom we have five surviving songs?

Guillaume de Machaut

Which composer was also a reknowed poet whose roughly 400 poems influenced later authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer?

Hildegard of Bingen

Which composer wrote numerous liturgical songs that were collected under the title Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum?

Guillaume de Machaut

Which composer wrote the Messe de Nostre Dame, the earliest known complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer?

Perotinus

Which composer's three and four-voice organum superseded the two-voice organum of his predecessor Leoninus?

ABACA

Which label best represents rondo form?

Hildegard of Bingen

Which medieval composer was also a philosopher, mystic, and Benedictine abbess?

ABA

Which of the following is the correct label for ternary form?

homophony

Which of the following terms is a texture in which multiple musical lines or voices move together?

counterpoint

Which of the following terms is often used interchangeably with the term polyphony?

Beat

Which of the following terms represents the steady pulse in music that divides musical time into equal units?

Polyphonic

Which of the following terms would NOT be associated with Gregorian chant?

Counterpoint

Which of the following would NOT be used to describe homophonic texture?

Rhythm is the organization of different durations of sound in music.

Which sentence best captures the meaning of rhythm?

He was the most famous member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style.

Which statement about Guillaume de Machaut is NOT true?

Rondo

Which term best describes the form of the piece "Puis Qu'en Oubli" by Guillaume Machaut?

The Ordinary

Which term refers to the texts of the mass that remain the same?

The Proper

Which term refers to the texts of the mass that vary for each mass according to the particular day or season?

Polyphony

Which texture features more than one melodic line occurring at the same time?

Homophony

Which texture features one clear melody while the other parts provide accompaniment or fill in the chords?