Music History Test #2

The idea that music could be a social accomplishment, widely accepted during the Renaissance period, came from a) ancient Greece b) fifteenth-century Greece c) Flanders d) England e) the Bible

a) ancient Greece

What was does minnelieder mean, and what was the language of the minnesingers?

lovesongs, and middle high German

Who composed isorhythmic motets, monophonic secular songs, and a first complete Mass Ordinary setting? a) Guillaume de Machaut b) Philppe de Vitry c) Johannes Ciconia d) Francesco Landini e) Jacopo da Bologna

a) Guillaume de Machaut

The first collection of polyphonic music printed entirely from moveable type was Ottaviano Petrucci's a) Harmonice musices odhecaton b) Liver de arte contrapuncti c) Dodekachordon

a) Harmonice musices odhecaton

The center for polyphonic composition in the thirteenth century was a) Paris b) southwestern France c) Italy d) Germany e) Worcester, England

a) Paris

What is the most famous of the cantigas, and who did they venerate?

Cantigas de Santa Maria, they are a collection of over 400 cantigas in Galican-Portugese in honor of the Virgin Mary.

The Renaissance period is marked by an interest in a) ancient Greek culture b) religious conversation c) exotic cultures d) preserving medieval ideals e) equality for all humans, no matter what their economic status

a) ancient Greek culture

In this type of English improvised polyphony, a plainchant in the middle voice is joined by an upper voice a perfect fourth above it and a lower voice singing mostly in parallel thirds below a) faburden b) chace c) rota d) fauxbourdon

a) faburden

The synthesis of compositional elements from English, French, and Italian music traditions led to this fifteenth-century compositional style a) international style b) Continental style c) Burgundian style d) cosmopolitan style

a) international style

Beginning in the fifteenth century, the following term referred to a polyphonic setting of a Latin text other than a mass cycle a) motet b) chanson c) ballade d) carole

a) motet

Chromatic alterations employed to produce a more melodic line or to avoid sounding an augmented fourth were known as a) musica ficta b) minims c) harmonica ficta d) diastematic notation

a) musica ficta

What are the 3 types of organum? a) parallel, oblique, and free b) parallel, opposite, and counterpoint c) parallel, one-to-one, and first species

a) parallel, oblique, and free

The Old Hall manuscript contains a) sacred polyphony, including the works of Dunstable b) the earliest mass cycles built on secular French songs c) secular song from Burgundy d) Tinctoris's treatise e) Walter Odington's treatise

a) sacred polyphony, including the works of Dunstable

Who were the trouveres? a) same as troubadours, but their language was Old French b) traveling musicians c) court musicians

a) same as troubadours, but their language was Old French

What is the common form of minnelieder? a) strophic b) through-composed c) ternary d) binary

a) strophic (AAB) A = stollen, B = Abgesang

In cantus firmus masses, the borrowed melody is usually found in the a) tenor b) altus c) superius d) bassus

a) tenor

The contenance angloise refers to a) the English style of polyphony b) an anti-English secular song that became very popular in France c) a musical instrument that was the forerunner of the English horn d) a dance that was popular in England e) French disdain for the English style

a) the English style of polyphony

The cantus-firmus mass usually derived its name from a) the borrowed melody b) the event for which the mass was written c) the composer's primary patron d) the primary mode employed throughout the composition

a) the borrowed melody

The increase during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in amateur music making for pleasure or social entertainment is a direct result of: a) the introduction of music printing and the wider dissemination of written music b) the closing of courts throughout France, Italy, and Germany c) church bans on secular compositions d) compositional taxes placed on professional musicians

a) the introduction of music printing and the wider dissemination of written music

Which of the following is not a feature of polyphonic conductus? a. The tenor voice came from Gregorian chant b. The text was rhymed metrical poetry c. A melisma called a cauda sometimes preceded or followed phrases d. The tenor voice had the same rhythmic speed as the upper voices e. It died out ca. 1250

a. The tenor voice came from Gregorian chant

The medieval motet began as an elaboration or troping of which genre? a. substitute clausulae b. florid organum c. sequence d. conductus e. Alleluia

a. substitute clausulae

The largest collection of notated organal voices is the: a) Musica enchiriadis b) Winchester Troper c) Ad organum faciendum d) Codex Calixtinus

b) Winchester Troper

Organum is: a) 3 or more voices singing different notes in agreeable combinations according to given rules b) 2 or more voices singing different notes in agreeable combinations according to given rules c) counterpoint

b) 2 or more voices singing different notes in agreeable combinations according to given rules

The writer who named two composers of the Notre Dame school was a) Perotinus b) Anonymous IV c) Petrus de Cruce d) Franco of Cologne

b) Anonymous IV

Relative durations signified by note shapes were first introduced by Franco of Cologne in his treatise: a) Magnus liber organi b) Ars cantus mensurabilis c) Ad organum faciendum d) Anonymous IV treatise

b) Ars cantus mensurabilis

Social factors influencing Renaissance music included a) equal rights for women b) Europe's economic vitality c) the Black Death d) church control over secular life e) suppression of the middle class

b) Europe's economic vitality

For much of the Renaissance, musicians working in Italy had been trained in a) Italy b) France, the Netherlands, or Flanders c) England d) Spain e) Byzantium

b) France, the Netherlands, or Flanders

The most famous composer of the 15th century, evident from the presence of his music in manuscripts copied throughout Europe, was a) John Dunstable b) Guillaume Du Fay c) Gilles Binchois d) Jean de Ockeghem

b) Guillaume Du Fay

The Swiss theorist who added four new modes in his book Dodekachordon was a) Gioseffoo Zarlino b) Heinrich Glareanus c) Johannes Tinctoris d) Jacopo de Bologna

b) Heinrich Glareanus

Which composer composed quadruplum, or organa for four voices? a) Leoninus b) Perotinus c) Franco of Cologne d) Anonymous IV

b) Perotinus

Which French composer wrote the famous treatise The New Art which gave name to the musical movement and style in the 14th century? a) Guillaume de Machaut b) Philppe de Vitry c) Johannes Ciconia d) Francesco Landini e) Jacopo da Bologna

b) Philppe de Vitry

Roma de Fauvel was a) the composer who wrote the Ars nova treatise b) an allegorical story interspersed with Ars Nova music c) the theorist who objected to the Ars Nova style d) A book of rules for how to notate Ars Nova motets e) a thirteenth-century writer whose thinking influenced fourteenth-century composers

b) an allegorical story interspersed with Ars Nova music

Du Fay's Mass Se la face ay pale borrows its cantus firmus from the following a) polyphonice chanson b) ballade c) plainchant d) polyphonic carol

b) ballade

A style of organum in which both voices move in modal rhythm is called: a) organum style b) discant style c) florid style d) modal style

b) discant style

Which feature of Ars Nova composition was most offensive to conservatives? a) isorhythm b) duple meter c) division of semibreves d) fast-moving upper parts e) secular texts

b) duple meter

What did the songs of the Minnesingers emphasize? a) romantic love songs b) faithfulness, duty, and service that reflected the loyalty that knights and nobles owed to their king and Christians owed to the church c) songs of youth and fundamental social values

b) faithfulness, duty, and service that reflected the loyalty that knights and nobles owed to their king and Christians owed to the church

Virelai, rondeau, and ballade belong to the category of a) polyphonic carol b) formes fixes c) conductus d) polyphonic organum e) madrigal

b) formes fixes

Which late medieval polyphonic genre could have words in both French and Latin? a) organum triplum b) motet c) conductus d) rondellus e) virelai

b) motet

A mass which utilizes the same melodic motive in the beginning of each part of the mass is called a: a) plainsong mass b) motto mass c) cantus firmus mass d) imitation mass

b) motto mass

The Squarcialupi Codex is a) a book containing an allegorical and satirical story interspersed with music b) one of the main sources of Italian Trecento music c) a treatise on Italian notation d) a set of rules for writing madrigals e) the complete works of Landini, which he compiled himself

b) one of the main sources of Italian Trecento music

In this compositional technique used in the top voice, the melody is given a rhythm and ornamented by adding notes around those of the chant: a) burden b) paraphrase c) hocket d) fauxburden

b) paraphrase

Who were the troubadours? a) traveling musicians b) poet-composers in southern France, whose language was Occitan c) just another name for trouveres

b) poet-composers in souther France whose language was Occitan

In English polyphony, a perpetual canon or round at the unison is called a a) rondellus b) rota c) caude d) motet

b) rota

What does the word "cantiga" mean? a) poetry b) song c) performance d) music

b) song

Was the organal voice the top or the bottom?

bottom

The following composer was employed by the court of Phillip the Good and was highly regarded for his chanson compositions: a) Philippe de Vitry b) John Dunstable c) Gilles de Binchois d) Guillaume du Fay

c) Gilles de Binchois

A system for notated duration developed by musicians at Notre Dame was described in a thirteenth-century treatise attributed to: a) Leoninus b) Perotinus c) Johannes de Garlandia d) Guido of Arezzo

c) Johannes de Garlandia

The Renaissance period of music comprises roughly which centuries--according to our book? a) The thirteenth and fourteenth b) The fourteenth and fifteenth c) The fifteenth and sixteenth d) The sixteenth and seventeenth e) The fourteenth through the seventeenth

c) The fifteenth and sixteenth

Cantilena is best defined as a) a compositional style that imitates a bagpipe b) an improvised third voice added to a two-voice piece c) a freely composed, homorhythmic piece d) secular song in the French style e) using two cantus-firmus tenor voices

c) a freely composed, homorhythmic piece

A mass in which all movements are based on the same pre-existing melody is called a(n) a) plainsong mass b) motto mass c) cantus-firmus mass d) imitation mass

c) cantus-firmus mass

The term for the technique where two or more voices alternate in rapid succession, each resting while the other sings, developed in the 13th century and used in isorhythmic motets is known as a) talea b) color c) hocket d) faburden

c) hocket

German knightly poet-musicians who flourished between the 12th and 14th centuries were known as: a) troubadours b) trouveres c) minnesingers d) meistersingers

c) minnesingers

Court chapels were significant for music history because a) musicians deposited copies of their manuscripts there b) contracts for guilds, the predecessors of unions, were signed there c) they hired musicians for both sacred an secular music d) they settled disputes between musicians and employers e) they published the words of important composers

c) they hired musicians for both sacred an secular music

Much of what we know about troubadours and trouveres are found in fanciful biographies known as ______. a) biographies b) autobiographies c) vidas d) vivres

c) vidas

Who was the blind composer known for his ballate and had a cadence named after him? a) Guillaume de Machaut b) Philppe de Vitry c) Johannes Ciconia d) Francesco Landini e) Jacopo da Bologna

d) Francesco Landini

One of the earliest composers to use a secular tune as a cantus firmus was a) John Dunstable b) Gilles de Binchois c) Guillaume de Machault d) Guillaume du Fay

d) Guillaume du Fay

Which of the following statements is true? a) Musicians in the Renaissance did not believe in music's power to influence emotion b) Renaissance musicians believed the magical properties of Greek music were lost forever c) Renaissance musicians believed music had power to influence human emotion, but they were not interested in putting their belief into practice. d) Renaissance musicians used many devices to try to sway listeners' emotions e) The pope forbade Renaissance musicians from attempting to portray emotion in music

d) Renaissance musicians used many devices to try to sway listeners' emotions

Renaissance musicians paralleled the new achievements in the art of painting in their use(s) of a) Contrast between high and low registers and fuller textures b) Clarity of musical structure through frequent cadences and stylistic contrasts c) Focusing on a single tonal center was the equivalent of using a single vanishing point in perspective d) all of the above

d) all of the above

The primary audience for printed music was/where a) the Church b) missionaries in the new world c) collectors wo viewed them as works of art d) amateur musicians throughout Europe and the Americas e) a tiny group of the economic elite

d) amateur musicians throughout Europe and the Americas

In the Renaissance, secular music was a) banned by the Church b) the predominant type of music c) performed but never written down d) composed by musicians who also composed church music e) composed by specialists who never composed church music

d) composed by musicians who also composed church music

The music of Guillaume Du Fay is best described as a) compositions that avoided international influences, focusing instead on the retention and development of a national style b) compositions that disregarded national and regional styles, attempting instead to reproduce the contenance angloise c) compositions that borrowed from Italian and French musical traditions in an attempt to offer an alternative to the increasing popularity of an English style d) compositions that blended musical characteristics from French, Italian, and English traditions, representing a new international style of composition

d) compositions that blended musical characteristics from French, Italian, and English traditions, representing a new international style of composition

A plainsong mass gained coherence between parts of the Ordinary by employing a) a similar style in each of the parts b) the same thematic material in each of the parts c) shared musical elements between parts d) liturgically-approproate, pre-existing chant, which corresponded with the text of each part

d) liturgically-approproate, pre-existing chant, which corresponded with the text of each part

Musical instruments of the fourteenth century were divided into high and low depending on a) pitch b) length of tubing of strings c) social status of the performer d) loudness or softness e) whether they were performed in towers or on the ground

d) loudness or softness

The following idea about Renaissance music was not borrowed from Greek thought a) chromaticism as an expressive device b) music as a social accomplishment c) influential power of the modes d) mean-tone temperament

d) mean-tone temperament

Du Fay's career was spent a) entirely in the service of the duke of Burgundy b) entirely in the Church, at a cathedral in Cambrai and one in Paris c) divided between secular posts in Italy and a cathedral post in Cambrai d) traveling from court to court, including courts in England, France, Italy, and Spain e) at the University of Paris, where he taught composition and rhetoric

d) traveling from court to court, including courts in England, France, Italy, and Spain

Fauxbourdon is best defined as a) alternation of two- and three-voice textures b) an English approach to isorhythm c) three-voice works composed in streams of 6-4 chords d) two composed voices with an improvised third voice, creating 6-3 chords e) a work composed in imitation of a bagpipe, with a single melody composed over a drone in parallel fifths

d) two composed voices with an improvised third voice, creating 6-3 chords

Trecento composers used all except one of these genres. Which one did they not use? a) Caccia b) Madrigal c) Ballata d) Rondeau e) Discant clausulae

e) Discant clausulae

Which of the following is true about troubadours and trouveres? Select more than one. a) Came from families of merchants, craftsmen, even jongleurs (lower class gimmicky musicians) b) They were accepted into aristocratic circles because of their accomplishments in poetry and music c) They were the model for German Minnesingers d) They were considered lower class because of their craft e) a, b, c f) a, b, d

e) a, b, c

Ottavio Petrucci is known for a) writing a treatise naming the best composers of his time b) developing a realistic style of painting c) hiring the first paid, secular choir d) translating Greek treatises into Latin e) publishing music using a three-impression method

e) publishing music using a three-impression method

In an isorhythmic work, the repeating rhythmic pattern is called the a) tempus b) diminution c) color d) prolation e) talea

e) talea

Which of these descriptions best characterizes English music in the thirteenth century? a. Strict adherence to early compositional rules allowing only perfect consonance b. Close imitation of Parisian polyphonic styles of the same era c. Improvisational quality, with little written down d. Through-composed works with little repetition and sparse textures e. Voice-exchange, canons, and preference for 6-3 chords

e. Voice-exchange, canons, and preference for 6-3 chords

Select all that are true about Meistersinger: a) they were popular around the 6th century b) they sang accompanied by instrument c) they sang unaccompanied solo song, derived from the minnesingers d) they were urban merchants and artists who pursued music as an avocation and performed guilds for composing songs according to strict rules and singing them in public concerts and competitions e) a, b, c f) a, c, d

f) a, c, d