Intro To Music MIDTERM

18. When did the musical style known as Ars nova first appear?

14th century

rhythm,

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

7. What entities provided financial support for medieval and Renaissance musicians?

Church, city, state, courts

42. The Catholic Church's effort in the early sixteenth century to recapture the loyalty of its followers through a return to true Christian piety is known as the _________.

Counter-Reformation

1. Who of the following are Renaissance artists?

Da Vinci; Michelangelo

order of sharps

FCGDAEB

4. The beginning of the Middle Ages is marked by what event?

Fall of western roman empire

8. In the middle ages, the status of women was raised by the universal cult of who?

Mary, Mother of Christ

Organum,

Medieval polyphony

13. Hildegard's modal melodies have similarities to the melodies and scales used by which sacred traditions?

Middle Eastern

16. Which of the following is not descriptive life in a medieval monastery?

Religious life was quite disciplined. Members withdrew from secular society.Members were devoted to prayer.

36. In the Renaissance two important _____ genres grew out of the union of poetry and music: the French _____ and the _____ madrigal.

Secular, chansons, italian

25. Religious ______ like the Crusades and medieval explorations allowed for an exchange of musical instruments with Middle ______ cultures.

Wars, eastern

motet,

a short piece of sacred choral music, typically polyphonic and unaccompanied.

plainsong.

another term for Gregorian chant

47. What is a cantus firmus and how was it used?

base line to

24. Which instruments stem from Turkish models?

bells, cymbals, bass drums

30. early madrigal (c. 1525-50)

chiefly composed for amateurs

2. What employment opportunities were available for a musician in the Middle Ages?

chior masters singers organists composers

20. Music, mathematics, geometry, and astronomy were considered a part of the four topics essential in medieval _______.

education

37. Madrigalisms enhanced the _____ content of the music.

emotional

33. What is the texture of the last line of Fair Phyllis?

homorhythmic

melody,

horizontal

melismatic.

long group of notes to a syllable

27. What was a popular French secular song genre in the Ars nova?

love poems?

43. Who started the Protestant Reformation with his Ninety-Five Theses?

martin luther

12. Chant melodies are described as syllabic, neumatic, or ____, based on how many notes are set to each _____ of the text.

melismatic, syllable

17. The pre-tonal scale patterns utilized in Gregorian chant are referred to as _________.

modes

15. Which of the following describe plainchant of the Middle Ages and which do not?

monophonic; organized according to the liturgy; Latin text

26. During the Ars nova, which element of music fell out of favor?

monophony

32. Farmer "paints" the first line of the text, "Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone," through the musical use of:

monophony

polyphonic

multi-melodic

monophonic,

one melody

syllabic.

one note to each syllable

40. Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass is a setting of the Mass ______.

ordinary

Agnus Dei

ordinary

Credo

ordinary

Gloria

ordinary

Kyrie

ordinary

meter,

patterns and organizing

14. Monophonic sacred music of the early Christian church is called _______.

plainchant;

45. In the Catholic Mass, the parts that change according to the day belong to the

proper

Gradual

proper

Introit

proper

Offertory

proper

23. Which Arabic instrument is the forerunner of the modern violin?

rabab

strophic

repeated music for each stanza

10. define liturgy?

set order of church services and structure

middle madrigal (1550-1580)

texture expanded to 5 or 6 voices written to harmonic and virtuosic extremes

48. How did English composers diverge from the Italian Madrigal?

the English madrigals were more humorous and lighter, with simpler harmony and melody than the Italian.

19. Which secular medieval musicians entertained at the higher social levels?

troubadours

34. Which of the following does not characterize the Renaissance madrigal?

use of French poetry

46. Which of the following were critiques from the Cardinals at the Council of Trent?

use of popular music in the Mass embellishment of Gregorian melodies the inappropriate attitude of church musicians

harmony,

vertical

22. What role in music was Pythagoras renowned?

was renowned for his musical experiments.

a cappella,

without instrumental accompaniment

final phase madrigal (1580-1620)

written to harmonic and virtuosic extremes

21. What was the period that immediately preceded the Ars nova called?

Ars Antiqua

29. What is the voicing of Farmer's madrigal Fair Phyllis?

BATS

order of flats

BEADGCF

38. Claudio ______ famously stated that his music was designed to serve the expressive power of his ________.

Monteverdi, texts

3. During the Renaissance, which lands did the Europeans explore that were new to them?

North and South America

31. At which point in the text of Fair Phyllis do the voices imitate each other in rapid succession?

"Up and down"

50. Who were the preeminent composers of the motet in the early Renaissance (1450-1520)?

Josquin des Prez north europe

41. What are the parts of that belong to the Mass Ordinary?

KGCSAD

35. Which instrument was commonly found in particularly prosperous Renaissance homes?

LUTE

28. Who was the first composer to collect his works in order to preserve his legacy?

Machaut

Homorhythmic,

Texture in which all voices, or lines, move together in the same rhythm.