MUSIC 201 Final - All Non-ID Questions
The Canterbury Tales includes
A. legends about a saint. B. ribald tales. C. an exemplum. D. animal fables.
The creation story of Genesis _____.
A. says God existed before anything else B. says God's creation is all good C. places humans as the highest creation
Florentine Renaissance art reflects a concern with - and the technical ability to handle
A. space and volume. B. models from ancient Rome. C. human realism.
Paradise Lost
A. touches on the whole range of human emotion B. invites comparison with Homer and Virgil C. is Classical in inspiration D. emphasizes human guilt
The establishment of the printing press served to
A. undermine the dominance of universities B. undermine the position of Latin as the only scholarly language C. increase literacy and inspire new literary forms
The Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings constitute the _____.
Bible of the Hebrews
"The common people called them plague-boils. From these two parts of the body, the deadly swellings began in a short time to appear and to reach indifferently every part of the body. Then, the appearance of the disease began to change into black or livid blotches which showed up in many on the arms or thighs and in every other part of the body."The passage above was written by
Boccaccio
Chiaroscuro was a major trait of the style of
Caravaggio
"The lady at the Court as well as being able to recognize the rank of the person with whom she is talking should possess a knowledge of many subjects..."The author of the above quote is
Castiglione
The Italian composer who popularized cori spezzati at St. Marks in Venice was
Giovanni Gabrieli
In the play Everyman, what saves Everyman at the final judgment?
Good Deeds
The last great development of Gothic art was known as the
International style
The single artwork that best summarizes the Renaissance ideals of learning and intellectual inquiry is
Raphael's School of Athens
The first artist to study and portray his own personality and feelings in a lifelong series of self portraits was
Rembrandt
The collection of writings called______ was one in which Polykleitos devised a mathematical formula for representing the perfect male body.
The Canon
Of the following, who was not a leader in the Reformation movement?
Thomas More
The word "Gothic" originally meant _____.
rude and barbarous
Which of the following is characteristic of Florentine Renaissance painting?
A. Close observation of real people. B. Concern for precise perspective. C. Concern for psychological states of mind. D. Use of geometry in composition.
Of the following, who was a seventeenth-century English poet?
A. John Milton B. John Donne C. Richard Crashaw
In Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Venus represents
A. Platonic idealism. B. Christian mysticism. C. the Classical ideal of the female figure
In addition to being one of the most carefully mathematical paintings ever created, da Vinci's Last Supper is notable for
A. being a brilliant fresco. B. all the lines converging behind Christ's head. C. capturing a psychological moment. D. combining biblical and Classical themes.
Artemisia Gentileschi's painting of Judith and Holofernes is notable for
A. being realistically violent B. being highly sensuous C. using dramatic foreshortening D. using chiaroscuro
The author of The Canterbury Tales
A. had a deep knowledge of Latin literature. B. was an important civil servant. C. made a translation of the Romance of the Rose. D. served as a customs agent in London.
The Aeneid was designed to
A. honor Rome B. honor Augustus C. be the Roman national epic
The mosaics at Ravenna ____.
A. illustrate the beliefs of the worshippers B. emphasize the promise of salvation C. teach illiterate believers D. are often symbolic
Augustine's Confessions is an important work because it ______.
A. is the beginning of self-reflective biography in the West B. balances immense learning with immense self-scrutiny C. is concerned with the most profound philosophical questions
The music of Josquin des Prez is known for
A. overlapping voices B. having music express the meaning of the words C. having a homogeneous structure D. being a bridge between the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Michelangelo's David was a(n)
A. symbol of civic pride in Florence. B. idealized figure. C. example of the pagan tone of Florence.
Rich evidence about the daily life of Ancient Rome is provided by _______.
A. the ruins of Pompeii B. the writings of Suetonius C. the letters of Cicero the Elder
The main theme of the Iliad is _____.
Achilles' anger and its consequences
The artistic virtuoso _________ is known for designing fountains, churches, and palaces, as well as some of the most dynamic sculptures of his day.
Bernini
A major difference between Machiavelli and Erasmus was their opinion regarding
Christianity and Classicism
The earliest Greek copy of the New Testament is called the _____.
Codex Sinaiticus
The Roman Emperor _________________ established a capital for the Eastern Roman Empire at Byzantium.
Constantine
Who was the first composer to make a career exclusively from composing instrumental music?
Corelli
Which of the following sculptures best reflects the central characteristics of Classical Greek art?
Discobolus
The work of a famous Greek sculptor that combines realistic action with an idealized geometry (i.e., two intersecting arcs) is _____.
Discobolus by Myron
Of the orders of column capitals in classical architecture, the simplest is ______.
Doric
A work produced by a great Greek sculptor in which the artist meant to illustrate the precise mathematical formula for the ideal male form is titled ______.
Doryphorus
The painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos was better known as
El Greco
For which Greek dramatist was the chorus used mainly to punctuate the action by dividing it into separate episodes?
Euripedes
The division of the Catholic Church into two hostile camps during the late Medieval period is known as the
Great Schism
The Roman variety of chant made obligatory through the Carolingian empire was known as _____.
Gregorian chant
Of the following, who was NOT an Elizabethan composer?
Guillaume DuFay
Of the following, who was not a sixteenth-century composer?
Guillaume de Machaut
The first example of five movements of the Ordinary of the Mass set polyphonically by a single composer was written by
Guillaume de Machaut
Pico della Mirandola was one of the first Christian scholars to take an interest in the _________ culture
Hebrew
"The Period of the Patriarchs," "The Period of the Conquest," and "The United Monarchy" are part of the history of the_______.
Hebrews
"... you cannot step twice into the same stream..." The originator of the philosophy stated above was _____.
Heraclitus
"This world... was created by no god or man; it was, it is, and it always will be an undying fire which kindles and extinguishes itself in a regular pattern." The author of the passage quoted above was ____.
Heraclitus
The earliest significant prose writer in Western civilization was _____.
Herodotus
We know about the Persian wars from an account written by _____.
Herodotus
The 12th-century mystic, musician, and nun whose visionary works include Scivias and a song sequence called Symphonia was _____.
Hildegard von Bingen
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Mannerism?
Idealized proportions
Petrarch regarded his most important works as the ones he wrote in
Latin
The medieval French musician who wrote music as part of the Notre Dame school was _____.
Leonin
"For there is such a difference between how men live and how they ought to that he who abandons what is done from what ought to be done learns his destruction rather than his preservation."The quoted passage above was written by
Machiavelli
The exaggerated style that developed out of High Renaissance art is called
Mannerism
One of the most powerful families of the Florentine Renaissance was the _________ family
Medici
The artist who worked both on St. Peter's basilica and the Medici Chapel was
Michelangelo
The sculptor of the Madonna of the Stairs is
Michelangelo
"That with no middle flight intends to soarAbove the Aonian mount, while it yet pursuesThings unattempted yet in prose or rhyme."The passage above was written by
Milton
The first real genius in the history of operatic composition was
Monteverdi
The Coronation of Poppea was
Monteverdi's last opera
The principal composers of the early Renaissance were mostly from
Northern Europe
"Thou shalt have the power to degenerate into the lower forms of life, which are brutish. Thou shalt have the power, out of thy soul's judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine."The passage above comes from
Oration on the Dignity of Man
Which of the following was NOT a 17th-century Baroque musical form?
Organum
Baroque musicians felt that one of the most appropriate Greek myths on which to base an opera was
Orpheus and Euridice
A leader of Greece during the Golden Age, connected with the great achievements of Athens at this time, was ______.
Pericles
In the School of Athens, the two central figures are
Plato and Aristotle
"For I go about doing nothing but persuading you all, young and old, not to care for your bodies for money more than for the excellence of your souls, saying that virtue does not come from money, but that it is from virtue that money comes and every other good of man, both private and public." The passage quoted above comes from
Plato's Apology
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, who says, "This above all, to thine own self be true"?
Polonius
Who of the following was NOT an Italian Baroque artist of the Counter-Reformation?
Poussin
The life of a Benedictine monk can be summarized in the motto
Pray and work
Roman Civilization is divided into two main periods:__________
Republican Rome and Imperial Rome
When the political power of the Medici declined, the artistic center of the Renaissance shifted from Florence to
Rome
Which of the following was the most versatile and varied Baroque painter?
Rubens
The Gothic style of architecture was begun at _______ by Abbot Suger.
Saint Denis
"Be praised, my Lord, for Brother Fire,Who lights up the night.He is beautiful and carefree, robust, and fierce." The passage quotes above was written by _____.
Saint Francis of Assisi
The five movements of the Mass Ordinary are the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, ____, and Agnus Dei.
Sanctus
In the apple boughs the coolness Murmurs, and the grey leaves flicker Where sleep wanders.In this garden all the hot noon I await thy fluttering footfall Through the twilight" The author of the passage quoted above is
Sappho
"The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."The quoted passage above was written by
Shakespeare
Castiglione's work extended a profound influence on the dramas of English Renaissance playwrights, including
Shakespeare
"He smashes through the steel and skull and bones,and bursting both his eyeballs from his head,he tumbles him down lifeless at his feet..." The passage quoted above comes from ______.
Song of Roland
The medieval epic poem that celebrates a battle between the Frankish army and a Muslim force at the Spanish border is _____.
Song of Roland
The most prosperous and successful of the great Athenian dramatists was
Sophocles
"This was the nature of my sickness. I was in torment, reproaching myself more bitterly than ever as I twisted and turned in my chain. I hoped that my chain might be broken once and for all, because it was only a small thing that held me now. All the same it held me." The passage quoted above was written by
St. Augustine
Louis XIV was also known as the
Sun King
Which of the following is not a painting by Botticelli?
The Battle of San Romano
Which of the following is NOT in the Vatican?
The Medici Chapel
Which of the following happened first?
The Reformation
The Limbourg brothers painted the
Très riches heures du Duc de Berry.
Placid, domestic interiors filled with diffuse light are characteristic of
Vermeer
"I tell about war and the hero who first from Troy's frontier,Displaced by destiny, came to the Lavinian shores." The passage quoted above comes from ____.
Virgil's Aeneid
Which of the following is not true of the Dipylon Amphora?
Was used for storing wine
"Kyrie eleison" is _____.
a Greek phrase meaning "Lord, have mercy"
Donatello's David is significant because it was
a and b
Dürer was one of the first to produce multiple copies of his art through
a and c
"Contraposto" is a term used to indicate _____.
a chiastic stance in Greek statuary
Carmina Burana is ____.
a collection of medieval student poems
Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas was first performed at
a girl's school in Chelsea
Donatello's Saint Mary Magdalene represents
a meditation on faith and the ravages of life
Ars nova is a term that originally described
a new system of rhythmic notation
Duccio was
a painter
The trouvère was _____.
a performer of secular music
Memento mori is _____.
a reminder of death
In medieval architecture, the "tympanum" is another name for _____.
a space over a door
In the medieval period, organum was _____.
a type of polyphonic musical work
Greek vases from 1000 BC to 700 BC typically feature _____.
abstract geometric designs
Organum is _____.
adding newly-composed polyphonic voices to plainchant
A puzzling expression found on the faces of figures from the Greek Archaic period is called _____.
an "archaic smile"
The semi-circular part of a Gothic cathedral behind the altar is called the _____.
apse
In 1517, Martin Luther publicly
attacked the Roman Catholic Church
Christine de Pisan was
b and c
Separate, eight-sided buildings near cathedrals or churches in the Byzantine era were commonly used for _____.
baptistries
St. Francis of Assisi was a "mendicant," which means he_______.
begged for his support and traveled much
The playing out of a biblical scene in the liturgy of the medieval church led directly to the _____.
beginning of Western drama
In the early medieval period, ivory carvings were often used for_____.
book covers
Machiavelli believed that the Church
c and d
Early Christians were often buried in underground cemeteries called _____.
catacombs
The feeling of emotional cleansing experienced by the audience in ancient Greek dramas was called ___________.
catharsis
Songs, performed by jongleurs, that told of great and heroic deeds were known as _____.
chansons des gestes
The term "Michelangeloesque" refers to the quality of
combining muscularity, grace, and powerful emotion
Hildegard's monophonic Alleluia, O virga mediatrix is an example of _____.
composed plainchant
The Metaphysical Poets were concerned with
describing emotional experience with unusual imagery
In the Hagia Sophia, the light entering the church symbolically represents _____.
divine wisdom
The greatest English artistic achievements in the Renaissance were in the field of
drama
When Oedipus declares, "None there is among you as sick as I," it is an example of the technique of _____.
dramatic irony
Which of the following is NOT one of Charlemagne's reforms?
dress codes for Frankish aristocrats
In the Iliad, the gods ____.
enforce the rules, but tend not to intervene
"Hubris" is _____.
excessive ambition
Romanesque architecture saw a marked increase in the use of ____.
exterior sculptures
Thomas Aquinas trod a middle path between _____.
fideism and rationalism
The Laocoön Group is an example of ________.
freestanding Hellenistic art
One of the great Roman buildings to survive the Barbarian invasions in the Pantheon. It features_____.
granite columns with Corinthian capitals, a grand portico, and a dome
The ordinary "common folk" who attended Elizabethan performances of Shakespeare's plays were called
groundlings
Thales of Miletus beleived that the world _____.
had its origins in water
Unlike visual artists, Renaissance musicians in Florence
had no Classical models to imitate
Michelangelo resisted painting the Sistine Chapel because
he considered himself primarily a sculptor, not a painter
Julius Caesar's Commentaries are primarily about
his military campaigns
The City of God was written to demonstrate that
history had a direction willed by God.
Velàzquez is known mostly for his
intimate scenes of life in the Spanish court
A lettering style developed by Florentine scribes of the Medici is known as
italics
One of the reasons Florence was a center of the Renaissance was
its importance as a center for trade and banking
The sections in Song of Roland are known as _____.
laisses
Renaissance humanists placed great emphasis on the idea that
learning improves and ennobles people
A common theme in sacred Gothic architecture is _____.
light
One of the principal ideals of Abbot Suger was the symbolism of _____.
light
The prescribed form of worship in the Christian church is known as the _____.
liturgy
A meander is a
maze-like pattern found of Greek vases
A plainchant setting that has many notes for each syllable is best described as _____.
melismatic
Music that consists of only a single melodic line is called ____.
monophonic
The musical term for a single unaccompanied melodic line is _______.
monophony
The practice of chromatically altering certain pitches in musical performance during the Renaissance is known as
musica ficta
Because of the dampness of the local climate, Venetian artists favored
oil paint
Praxiteles was
one of the first to introduce sensuality into the female sculpted figure
The late Renaissance attempt to revive and recreate Greek tragedy resulted in the development of
opera
Pythagoras was a _____.
philosopher and mathematician
The setting of Boccaccio's Decameron is
plague-ridden Italy
Copernicus questioned the assumption that
reality is as it appears
Thomas Aquinas tried to reconcile
reason and revelation
Which of the following is NOT a central characteristic of art in Classical Greece?
rigid, stylized stances
Both Boccaccio and Chaucer
satirized the Church
Castiglione's "courtier" conducts himself with the quality of
sprezzatura
The Apollo of Veii is an example of _____.
statuary
Euripides was known for his plays about _____.
strong female characters pushed to their limits
John Milton, Jr., got into political trouble for
supporting the Puritan cause
Pico della Mirandola tried to
synthesize all human knowledge to yield basic truths
Medieval philosophical thought is known for primarily being
synthetic and hierarchical
As a philosopher, Aristotle was the great ______.
systematizer
The decorative scheme of a gothic cathedral was an attempt to
tell an integrated story about salvation
Decameron is the Greek word for _______ days
ten
In a polyphonic work, the voice that retains the pitches of the original chant fragment is known as the _____.
tenor
The statue of Moses by Michelangelo conveys a feeling of
terribilità
One of the reasons hymns were popular in Protestant church services was because of their emphasis on
the "Word"
The Italian term Trecento is often used to refer to
the 14th century
The King James Version of 1611 is an English translation of
the Bible
One enormously influential seventeenth-century literary effort, created by a committee, was
the English translation of the Bible
Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi is noted for its portrayal of
the Medici family at the Nativity
The most important center of Roman music in the High Renaissance was
the Sistine Chapel
The significance of Cimabue's Crucifixion lies in
the attempt to show the weight and strain of the figure
The trivium and the quadrivium were _____.
the basic areas of study in the medieval period
One of the effects of the Black Death on Europe was
the death of between 1/3 and 2/3 of the entire population
The most significant architectural feature of the Hagia Sophia is _____.
the dome on pendentives
Josquin des Prez is known for his development of
the four-voice motet
Bernard of Clairveaux was upset at _____.
the overly fantastic nature of Romanesque sculpture
The horarium is ____.
the series of religious observances throughout the day
The sculpture known as Kritios Boy is renowned for representing _____.
the turning point from the Archaic to the Classical period
The Stoics believed that _____.
the world is governed by Reason
Socrates sought to find great men he thought were wiser than him in order to learn from them. Instead, he discovered that______.
they didn't know that they didn't know
The chivalric code of the medieval period ________.
was largely ceremonial