Listening Guide Quiz 4: Farmer: Fair Phyllis

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

1

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

4

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

All alone

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 . . . Which terms describe the general tone of this poem?

Correct playful light hearted wrong angry sad Depressed

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) All voices change syllables at the same time. All four voices sing one melody at the same time. Three voices harmonize with the highest voice.

In text line 4, we learn that Amyntas hurried ("hied") after his lover Phyllis. Later in that line, 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. The high voices sing the melody. Incorrect Answer(s) All four voices sing one melody. All voices change syllables at the same time.

Which of the following terms describes Josquin's Ave Maria...virgo serena?

Correct Answer(s) imitative polyphony a cappella ensemble consonant harmony wrong: dissonant harmony

Which of the following French Ars nova poetic forms are considered "fixed"

Correct Answer(s) rondeau virelai ballade Incorrect Answer(s) stanza troue

Josquin's Ave Maria . . . virgo serena is a motet. Which of the following are main features of this work?

Correct:-Latin text- text with a sacred subject-polyphonyIncorrect:- instrumental accompaniment

What best describes the texture of Farmer's Fair Phyllis?

Fair Phyllis begins with a monophonic texture, but quickly changes to a homorhythmic texture with sections of imitative polyphony.

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

In homorhythmic texture, all voices sing the same rhythms, changing syllables at the same time.

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

Monophonic

n the poem,____disappear(s).

Phyllis

What best describes the texture of Josquin's Ave Maria . . . virgo serena?

The texture of this work changes between imitative polyphony and homorhythm.

Which of the following is the most obvious example of word-painting as it appears in Farmer's Fair Phyllis?

To pictorialize both Amyntas's wanderings "up and down" through the hills and then his later activity with Phyllis, the words "up and down" go up and down through the four voices in imitation.

Which of the following characterize the Renaissance chanson and the madrigal?

Which of the following French Ars nova poetic forms are considered "fixed"right: They often featured expressive devices, such as word-painting, to bring the words and the music more closely together.They were set to poetry with intricate verse structures.

The sixteenth century has come to be regarded as the golden age of music for voices alone, without instrumental accompaniment, a style called:

a cappella

The preeminent____ of motets from the early Renaissance were from______ Europe, in particular present-day Belgium and northern _____

composer northern france

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 The voices enter at different times. Three voices imitate the highest voice. The highest voice sings the melody. wrong All four voices sing one melody at the same time. Three voices harmonize with the highest voice.

These four voices are

female and male

What is the order in which the voice groups enter the texture for the text "Ave Maria"?

from high to low

A four-part choir sings this motet. Place the vocal ranges in the order in which they sing this excerpt.

highest middle, lowest

At the beginning of this motet, what best describes the relationship among the four voices (the texture)? What's the texture? 0:45 Drag word(s) below to fill in the blank(s) in the passage. The highest voice part sings the melody and the other three ___ the, entering _____ the same different imitate harmonize with time(s).

imitate , different

Which terms describe the general tone of this poem?

light-hearted playful Incorrect Answer(s) sad angry

Name one of the instruments that was found in particularly prosperous Renaissance homes:

lute

In the Renaissance, one of the most popular sacred works with a Latin text was the

motet

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

one soprano singing

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

performing force -(SATB), a cappella. texture -varied melody -diatonic mood -light-hearted

Which of the following are typical of the Renaissance motet?

right set to Latin texts, often in praise of the Virgin Mary, for multiple voices, sometimes based on a chant wrong sung in the vernacular monophonic texture

What best describes the form of Fair Phyllis?

shor, repeated section

The Renaissance marks the passing of European____rom a predominantly religious orientation to a more_____ one. This awakening was called____

society secular Humanism

Farmer repeats the last two full text lines and music to end the madrigal. The first time you hear "up and down he wandered," you know Amyntas is wandering "up and down" the mountainside to find Phyllis. The second time you hear "up and down he wandered," he has already found Phyllis. In fact, what you hear is "Oh, then they fell a-kissing. Up and down he wandered . . ." At the end of this madrigal, Amyntas is wandering___

up and down Phyllis's body.

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

up and down he wandered

At the end of this madrigal, Amyntas is wandering

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

What best describes the performers of this work?

voices only

Religious___ike the Crusades and medieval____allowed for an exchange of musical instruments with Middle___cultures.

wars Exploration eastern

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

word painting