Listening Guide Quiz 4: Farmer: Fair Phyllis

What immediately follows the last half of the sixth text line ("Oh, then they fell a-kissing")?

"Up and down he wandered"

Which of the following statements regarding Farmer's Fair Phyllis are correct?

Correct Answer(s) It is in duple meter, then triple meter. It is an English madrigal. The text is pastoral. Incorrect Answer(s) The text is about unrequited love. It is in triple meter throughout. It is an Italian madrigal.

At the opening of this madrigal, the first line of text is sung by one voice, and the second line is sung by the entire group of four voices. All of this music is repeated. Then comes the third line of text:

Correct Answer(s) The highest voice sings the melody. Three voices imitate the highest voice. The voices enter at different times. Incorrect Answer(s) Three voices harmonize with the highest voice. All four voices sing one melody at the same time.

Which of the following are examples of word-painting in Farmer's Fair Phyllis?

Correct Answer(s) The use of a lone voice on "Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone" Scattering the text "up and down" in imitation among the four voices. Incorrect Answer(s) The use of homorhythm on "feeding her flock near to the mountain side." The dancelike meter on "then they fell a-kissing"

What best describes the musical texture Farmer chose for the words "But after her [her] lover Amyntas hied?"

Correct Answer(s) Two lower voices imitate the high voices. The voices enter at different times. Incorrect Answer(s) All four voices sing one melody. All voices change syllables at the same time.

Which terms describe the general tone of this poem?

Correct Answer(s) playful light-hearted Incorrect Answer(s) angry sad depressed

What is the form of Fair Phyllis?

Correct Answer(s) short, repeated sections Incorrect Answer(s) A-B-A binary through-composed

Why would Farmer use monophonic texture at the opening of this madrigal?

He is using word-painting.

What best describes the opening phrase of Fair Phyllis (first four seconds only)?

One soprano sings.

Read the poem then fill in the blank below. Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone, Feeding her flock near to the mountain side. The shepherds knew not whither she was gone, But after her [her] lover Amyntas hied. Up and down he wandered, whilst she was missing; When he found her, oh, then they fell a-kissing. Up and down . . . In the poem, - disappear(s).

Phyllis

What best describes the relationship among the four voices (the texture) in this excerpt?

The highest voice sings the melody and the other three harmonize with it, with all voices changing syllables at the same time.

What best describes the form of Fair Phyllis?

There are short, repeated sections.

These four voices are - voices.

These four voices are mixed (female and male) voices.

Farmer uses monophonic texture (a single melody line) for the first text line because Phyllis is -

all alone

In this excerpt, the second line of text is sung by how many voices?

four

Match the descriptive words or phrases with the different elements of music as found in Farmer's Fair Phyllis.

melody: diatonic mood: light-hearted performing forces: SATB, a cappella texture: varied

How many voices sing the opening phrase of Fair Phyllis, "Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone"?

one

At the end of this madrigal, Amyntas is wandering -

up and down, as "...they fell a-kissing