Intro to Music History
In the lecture, a poem written when someone dies is called _________
An Epitaph
A jongleur was:
An entertainer who juggled as well as sang
Bach achieves unity of mood in his compositions by using:
An insistent, rhythmic drive
The troubadours date back to the ________ centuries.
Eleventh through thirteenth
Gregorian chant is named for Pope Pius because he was credited with standardizing chant repertory.
False
Orestes wrote a play called "Dionysus".
False
The Ordinary is the part of the mass that changes.
False
Which of the following is NOT true in the youtube recording below ) of the Anonymous Sumer Canon?
In the round only 2 voices are singing the musical line/part which begins "Sumer is icumen In"
The term Baroque was first applied to____
Irregular or mishappen pearls
Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 is unusual in that:
It gives a solo role to the harpsichord.
Which of these do you NOT hear in this recorded Estampie?
It is through composed with no repeated sections
Which is not true of O Magnum Mysterium?
It uses exclusively voices
The term Baroque is now applied to _______
Music from 1600-1750
The earliest surviving books of notated chant date from the late __________
Ninth Century
At what religious institution did Organum fully develop?
Notre Dame Cathedral
The shawm was similar to what modern day instrument
Oboe
In Palestrina's Agnus Dei in the Youtube at marker at 1:14 which words are being sung:
"Qui tollis"
In the YOUTUBE of "Weelkes "As Vesta was from Latmos hill At marker :18 which of the words is painted by the text?—(the music directly reflecting the meaning of the word:
"ascending"
A madrigal has how many verses?
1
The Renaissance period of music comprises roughly which centuries?
15th and 16th
How many voice lines are there in Giovanni Gabrieli's O Magnum Mysterium:
8
The estampie was_____.
A Dance form
Figured bass is________:
A bass line notated with numbers to indicate chords above the bass line.
Which statement is true of surviving examples of secular songs?
A few thousand texts survive, but only some have music
The vielle was which_________ (type of string instrument?)
A five-stringed instrument played with a bow
The term: 'Courtly love' a common subject of secular song usually described_____
A man who loves an unattainable or unavailable woman
The texture of Baroque music is marked by_____:
A polarity between bass and treble lines
Basso continuo is best described as:
A system of notation in which the bass line is provided and performers are expected to flesh out the harmonies above that bass line.
In Gabrieli's O Magnum between 2:58- 3:30 in the Youtube below, which of the following is true?
All answers are correct
Which musical term(s) come from Ancient Greek?
All answers are correct
Which of the following terms is derived from the Ancient Greeks?
All answers are correct
Bach's personal musical style was drawn from:
All answers are correct.
While at Leipzig, Bach:
All answers are correct.
Aside from being a composer, Hildegard von Bingen was also a:
All of these
Love was a main topic of secular song among all but the ________.
All of these sang about love
The figured bass of the Basso continuo led to the consideration and application of sounds:,
As intervals above the bass
The following wind instrument was used in the worship of Dionysus, god of fertility and wine:
Aulos
The most popular ancient Greek wind instrument (also used in the feast of Dionysius was the _
Aulos
Which of these was a troubadour?
Bernart de Ventadorn
According to Aristotle, music imitated ethos through the choice of:
Both scale type and rhythm
The Doctrine of Ethos is the theory that music _______.
Can Influence a person's morality
Which of the following is not a part of the Ordinary?
Cantata
Trouvere and troubadour songs are preserved in manuscript anthologies known as:
Chansonniers
The most important form of music in the Lutheran church was the:
Chorale
Which of the following is NOT a category of chant?
Chromatic
Hildegard of Bingen is known for __________
Composing both the words and music for chants and a liturgical drama
The central impulse of Baroque music, art and architecture is:
Dramatization
The solo instruments in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are the ____________, violin, and harpsichord.
Flute
Of Bach's twenty children, ____________ went on to become well-known composers.
Four
Near the beginning of the Renaissance (in the 15th century) the standard number of voices in polyphonic compositions was:
Four voices
The earliest example(s) of notated Greek dramatic music is (are):
Fragmentary from plays by Euripides
The Baroque style in art, music, and architecture began in:
Italy
The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Some of Vivaldi's instrumental concertos were arranged by:
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Who were considered the popular musicians of the Middle Ages?
Jongleurs
The final syllable of "alleluia" is often extended by an effusive melisma called a_________:
Jubilus
The main sung parts of the Ordinary portion of the Mass are__________
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
The longest period of Johann Sebastian Bach's professional life was spent as director of music at St. Thomas's Church in:
Leipzig.
The most common subject matter of the 16th century madrigal is:
Love
Recitation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey would have been accompanied by a (an):
Lyre
The following instrument was associated with Apollo, god of light, prophecy, learning, and the arts:
Lyre
Who were the two great composers of the Notre Dame school?
Léonin and Pérotin
The technique of composing musical images that evoke the text almost literally became known as:
Madrigalisms
Tonal organizations in the Baroque featured:
Major and minor tonalities
Josquin composed works for which genre(s)?
Mass, motet, and chanson
According to the lecture, the Greeks believed that music could have a strong effect on:
Mind, body, and spirit
Beginning in the fifteenth century, the following term referred to a polyphonic musical setting of a Latin text other than a mass cycle:
Motet
In the sixteenth century madrigal, the standard number of singers for each part of the piece (score) is:
One
The instruments of the continuo group usually consist of _____.
One bass instrument such as a viola da gamba, or cello plus a harpsichord or lute
Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____________ of his day.
Organist
Name the musical device which happens between :56-and 1:10 in the following YOUTUBE of Purcell's most famous piece "When I am laid in Earth."
Ostinato bass-also known as ground bass
Martin Luther proposed that music should be:
Performed by all participants, including the congregation
Palestrina spent most of his career at institutions in_______
Rome
Texts for early madrigals sometimes used the metaphor of "death" to allude to:
Sexual matters
A lengthy ceremony that might happen more than once a day in cathedrals and monasteries is known as:
The Mass
The Schuola Cantorum was_________
The choir that sang for observances officiated by the pope
"In paradisum" is part of the liturgy for:
The dead
The increase of amateur music making for pleasure or social entertainment during the 15th and 16th centuries is as a direct result of:
The introduction of music printing causing wider dissemination of written music
In paradisum" is sung by:
The priest and the entire religious community
In Baroque music affections can be defined as:
Theory of musical aesthetics, widely accepted in the late Baroque that embraced the proposition that music is capable of arousing a variety of specific emotions within the listener.
Which of the following is NOT true of the Organum Alleluia Diffusa Est in this youtube?
There is not a long held note in the tenor starting at :31-:51 in the youtube
Catholic compositions of the sixteenth century differed from earlier compositions for the church in that_____
There were 5 or 6 voices, instead of 4
Which of these is not a musical instrument found in ancient Greece?
Trombone
According to the lecture, the Greeks believed music could have a beneficial effect on both mind and body. . thus it could create an ethical person.
True
Approximately 40 fragments of Greek music still exist today.
True
Dionysus was the Greek god of wine.
True
Hildegard used an idiosyncratic system of modes, which was unique to her, in that it did not adhere to the usual modes used in the Middle Ages.
True
Originally Hildegard and her nuns co-existed with monks in the same monastery, but eventually received their own convent.
True
Plainchant is monophonic (one musical line, sung in unison)
True
The creation of polyphony allowed Western Music to flourish and become what it is today.
True
Hildegard of Bingen composed in the ________ century.
Twelfth Century
Between 1:36-2:00: Then 3:02-3:20 in the Youtube below of Monteverdi's "Possente Spirto" which of the following is true?
Two Ritornellos are played—first violins, then brass-like instruments called "zinks"
Baroque composers believed that music should be:
Used as a means of expressing and arousing emotions in the listener
The following instrument was not commonly used as a continuo instrument:
Violin
A typical baroque operatic form was the da capo aria in ABA form in which the singer:
Was expected to embellish the returning melody with ornamental tones.
Secular song (of the Minnesingers, Meistersingers) in Germany_______ .
Was influenced by the music of the troubadours but was written in German
A two-part collection of preludes and fugues, one in each major and minor key, basic to the repertoire of keyboard players today, is Bach's
Well-Tempered Clavier.
Which of the following statements is true of women's participation in madrigal performance and composition?
Women performed madrigals but lacked therarely received musical compositional training to compose them.
Realization is________:
filling in the chords above a bass line according to the numbers above the line
What kind of musical texture is exhibited in the youtube of Josquin's "Ave Maria" between markers 1:21-1:27?
homophonic texture
