Music History Test 2

The Italian form derived from French songs is ___________.

Canzona

What did Martin Luther call his simplified order of service, intended for use by smaller congregations?

The German Mass

Byrd's music for the Mass was published in ________.

The Gradualia

A mass in which all movements are basedon the same pre-existing melody is called a(n) ___________.

Cantus Firmus mass

The Triumphs of Oriana was _________________.

A collection of madrigals in honor of Queen Elizabeth I

The Concerto delle Donne was __________.

A group of women renowned for their singing at noble courts

Point of imitation is defined as _________________?

A quick succession of imitative entrances

Which of the following genres was not one that Dunstable used?

Cantus-firmus masses

Aeolian and Ionian modes were _______________.

Added to the modal system by Heinrich Glareanus

Which of the following is true of musical style in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?

All voices were nearly equal and all were singable.

Which of the following statement best describes the polyphonic Lied of the mid-sixteenth century?

Although German continued to be the language of the Lied, composers were strongly influenced by the madrigal

The primary audience for printed music was/were __________.

Amateur musicians throughout Europe and the Americas

The Renaissance period is marked by an interest in ___________.

Ancient Greek culture

A consort is _____________________.

Any combination of instruments in a small group

By the first half of the 15th century, the word motet was applied to _________.

Any polyphonic composition on a sacred Latin text other than the Ordinary of the Mass

Willaert and Zarlino believed that minor intervals, such as the minor third or sixth, _________.

Could represent sweetness or grief

The Council of Trent _________.

Directed local bishops to implement reforms in church music

In the sixteenth century, percussion instruments were ______________.

Diverse and refined, but parts were never written out

Obrecht's works include secular songs in which language?

Dutch

By the middle of the sixteenth century, the typical Italian madrigal was written for:

Five or more voices

For much of the Renaissance, musicians working in Italy had been trained in _____.

France, the Netherlands, or Flanders

Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass is an example of which mass type?

Free mass

The sixteenth-century Italian madrigal developed from the _________________.

Frottola

Which of the following statements characterizes Jean Calvin's attitude toward music?

He allowed only unaccompanied singing of psalms at church services

Which of the following statements best reflects Josquin's approach to text setting?

He gave a new melody to each new phrase of text to make it clear.

The movement to embrace human knowledge was called __________.

Humanism

Ockeghem's Missa Cuisvis toni is special because __________________?

It can be sung in any mode

Which of the following statements best describes the Catholic church's response to Protestant criticisms of its music

It changed its musical practices only slightly.

In what way did the Hundred Years' War influence music?

It inspired nationalistic genres

For which composer did Martin Luther have particular admiration?

Josquin

Imitation in paired voices is a characteristic of __________.

Josquin

Who published "wholesome" polyphonic music for young people, to "rid them of their love ditties and wanton song?"

Martin Luther

What are the principal form(s) of Calvinist church music?

Metrical psalm

Which of the following was not a popular dance type in the sixteenth century?

Minuet

Cadences of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were marked by _________?

Occasional use of full triads for the closing sonority

Renaissance painters achieved realistic effects through the use of _______

Perspective and treatment of light

The poet whose work inspired composers of sixteenth-century Italy was _____.

Petrarch

A mass in which each movement is based on a pre-existing chant for the text is called an(n)_______.

Plainsong mass

Intabulation, or tablature, is a notation system used for ____________.

Plucked and keyboard instruments

Four-voice texture as developed in the fifteenth century consisted of _______.

Polyphony on Latin texts

Which of the following statements is true?

Renaissance musicians used many devices to try to sway listener's emotions.

The Burgundian chanson was usually composed in which form(s)?

Rondeau or ballade

The Renaissance instrument that is related to the modern trombone is the _________.

Sackbut

What is/are the principal form(s) of Anglican church music?

Service and anthem

Partbooks were _____________.

Sets of books, one part to a book

The duke of Burgundy employed _______________?

Singers for chapel, organists, and wind players, and string players

In the Renaissance, music for dancing was composed for _______________.

Social dancing for people of aristocratic backgrounds

The first published works in improvisatory style were inspired by instrumentalists' practice of improvising in association with which other genre?

Songs

Four-voice texture as developed in the fifteenth century consisted of _______.

Superius, contratenor altus, tenor, contratenor bassus

Madrigalism can be defined as ________________.

The literal depiction of an individual word or phrase

Which of the following statements describes the way(s) in which the bassus voice of the late-fifteenth century differs from that of the masses of Du Fay?

The range is a fourth lower

The theorist who first described counterpoint that considered thirds and sixths consonances was ___________. (last name only one word)

Tinctoris

The chief sixteenth-century keyboard genre in improvisatory style was _____.

Toccata

Gabrieli's Sacrae symphoniae were composed for ____________.

Two groups of four instruments, with organ accompaniment

The main secular vernacular genre of 16th-century Spain was ___________

Villancico

Which of the following statements is true of women's participation in madrigal performance and composition?

Women both performed and composed madrigals, though not in equal numbers to men.

Which of these compositional techniques used by Isaac can be traced to popular music in Italy?

homophony

The Old Hall manuscript contains ____________

sacred polyphony including the works of Dunstable

Court chapels were significant for music history because __________.

they hired musicians for both sacred and secular music