Music Appreciation Test 2
Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of
Christopher Columbus
Thomas Weelkes wrote
As Vesta Was Descending
which is not part of the Renaissance Mass?
Ave Maria
Josquin Desprez wrote
Ave Maria...virgo serena
An outstanding composer of the ars nova was
Guillaume de Machaut
the Renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in
Italy
Guillaume de Machaut wrote
Notre Dame Mass
G.P. da Palestrina wrote
Pope Marcellus Mass
Andrea Gabrieli wrote
Ricercar in the Twelfth Mode
performing choral music without instrumental accompaniment is
a cappella
the ars nova, or new art, of the fourteenth century differed from older music in that
a new system of notation permitted composers to specify almost any rhythmic pattern
much of the insturmental music composed during the renaissance was intended for
dancing
the first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed
during the twelfth ad thirteenth century
viol
family of bowed string instruments
the intellectual movement called humanism
focused on human life and its accomplishments
the dominant intellectual movement of the renaissance was called
humanism
Gregorian Chant
is monophonic in texture
palestrinas Pope Marcellus Mass sounds fuller than josquin's Ave Maria because
it is set for six voices instead of four
Which of the following is not true of Gregorian chant?
it is usually polyphonic in texture
the sections of the raniassance mass are
kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus, and agnus dei
the church modes are
like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven tones and an eighth tone that duplicates the first an octave higher
organum
medieval music consisting of gregorian chant and one or more additional lines
chant
melody sung without accompaniment
the first steps toward the development of polyphony were taken sometime between 700 and 900, when
monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line to Gregorian chant
the main two forms of sacred renaissance music are
motet and mass
word painting
musical represenation of specific poetic images
an oustanding composer of the notre dame school was
perotin
lute
plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear
trouveres
poet-musicians of the french nobility
the texture of Renaissance music is chiefly
polyphonic
motet
polyphonic choral work set to a sacred latin text
ricercar
polyphonic instrumental composition employing imitation
The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages
preformed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares, lived on the lowest level of society and played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes.
the notation of the secular songs of the Middle Ages does not indicate
rhythm
a polyphonic intrumental composition employing imitation is the
ricercar
palestrinas career centered in
rome
church modes
scales consisting of seven different tones, whose patterns are different from the major and minor scales
one of the mahor characteristics of ars nova music is its use of
syncopation
mass proper
text portions of the Roman Catholic Mass that changed from day to day
mass ordinary
text portions of the Roman Catholic Mass that remain the same each day
renaissance melodies are usually easy to sing because
the melody usually moves along a scale with few large leaps
the development of the English madrigal can be traced to 1588 and considered a result of
the publication in london of a volume of translated italian adrigals
the first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed during
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by French nobles called troubadours and trouveres
a cappella refers to
unaccomponied choral music
A madrigal, like a motet, is a vocal composition that combines homophonic and polyphonic textures; but it differs from the motet in that it
uses a vernacular rather than Latin text and more often uses word painting and unusual harmonies
jongleurs
wandering minstrels of the Middle Ages
thomas weelkes As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its
word painting