Renaissance
An area of research that has yielded information regarding music in prehistoric times:
Archaeology
True/False Organum is a Gregorian melody payed on an organ.
False
True/False Sappho est. the first music school in Greece and is regarded as the father of Greek lyric poetry.
False
True/False The Greek cults of Apollo and Dionysus played similar instruments and the same kind of music.
False
True/False The earliest known musical instrument is a percussion instrument.
False
The source of the most direct influence on the music Rome:
Greece
A designation for the sacred monophony of Catholic liturgy:
Gregorian chant
The early poet-musicians who composed and sang monophonic songs with German text:
Minnesingers
A celebrated composer of the sixteenth century:
Palestrina
The type of texture most prevalent in the music of the sixteenth century:
Polyphonic
The period of Josquin, Palestrina and Lassus:
Renaissance
The founder of the first music school and the father of Greek lyric poetry:
Terpander
The troubadours and trouveres were poet-musicians who wrote aristocratic poems in French dialects and set them to music.
True
True/False Archaeological discoveries and pictorial representations document singing and dancing accompanied by percussion, wind, and string instruments in the earliest civilizations.
True
True/False Gregorian chant, plainchant, plainsong, and cantus planus are designations for the same body of monophonic vocal music.
True
True/False Lassus was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote sacred and secular music with Italian, French, German and Latin text.
True
True/False Music flourished in the earliest civilizations.
True
True/False Music was highly developed and widely practiced in the ancient civilizations of Arabia, India, and the Orient.
True
True/False Music was included by the Greeks in the quadrivium of liberal arts.
True
True/False Palestrina has been regarded as preeminent among composers of Catholic church music for four hundred years.
True
True/False Percussion instruments made about twenty thousand years ago have been unearthed in the Soviet Ukraine.
True
True/False Polyphonic music was printed for the first time by Petrucci in Venice during Josquin's lifetime.
True
True/False The Epitaph of Seikilos is the only known piece of Greek music preserved from antiquity complete and intact.
True
True/False The minnesingers were the German counterparts of the troubadours and trouveres.
True
The type of music most prevalent during the sixteenth century:
Vocal
The century of the golden age of vocal polyphony:
sixteenth