Music History Test 2

THe wtier who named two composers of the Notre Dame school was

Anonymous IV

THe Shawm was similar to what modern-day instrument?

oboe

A chansonnier was

a book of songs

The vielle was what type of string instrument?

a five stringed instrument played with a bow.

Cantilena is best devined as

a freely composed, homorhythmic piece

Portative and positive refer to two types of

organs

Renaissance painters achieved realistic effects through the use of

perspective and treatment of light

The Renaissance period of music comprises roughly which centuries?

15th and 16th

The term "temperament" in the 16th century refers to

A system of tuning all pitches of a keyboard instrument to make thirds and sixths sound good.

PHillipus de Caserta is one of the most important representative of this style of music in later 14th century

Ars Subtilor

Relative durations signified by note shapes were first introduced by Franco of Cologne in his treatise

Ars cantus mensurabilis

A collection of more than 400 songs in Gallican-Portuguese in honor of the Virgin Mary, prepared about 1270 in Spain is known as

Cantigas de Santa Maria

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

France, the Netherlands or Flanders

WHo was the blind composer known for his ballate and had a cadence named after him?

Francesco Landidi

Who composed isorhythmic motets, monophonic secular songs, and a first complete Mass Ordinary setting?

Guillaume de Machaut

One of the earliest composers to use a secular tune as a cantus firmus was

Guillaume du Fay

"Messe de Nostre Dame" was one of the earliest polyphonic settings of the Mass Ordinary and likely the first mass to be composed by a single composer. His name was

Guillume de Machaut

THe Swiss theorist who added four new odes in his book "Dodekachordon" was

Heinrich Glareanus

The two predominant textures of the Renaissance music are

Imitative counterpoint and homophony

A system for notated duration developed by musicians at Notre Dame was described in a 13th century treatise attributed to

Johannes de Garlandia

Which late medieval polyphonic genre could have words in both French and Latin?

Motet

Which composer composed quadruplum, or organa for four voices?

Perotinus

Which French composer wrote the famous treatise The New Art which gave name to the music movement and style in 14th century?

Phillippe de Vitry

Ottavio Petrucci is known for

Publishing music using a three-impression method

A 14th century allegorical narrative poem which used satire to comment on corruption in politics and church in France was

Roman de Fauvel

The two theorists who devised the new rules for counterpoint to include the newly-developed preference for 3rds and 6ths in the late 15th and 16th century were

Tinctoris and Zarlino

Which of these descriptions best characterize English music in the 13th century?

Voice-exchange, canons, and preference for 6-3 chords.

Aeolian and Ionian modes were

added to the modal system by Heinrich Glareanus

Renaissance musicians paralleled these achievements in their use of

all of the above

THe primary audience for printed music was/were

amateur musicians throughout Europe and the Americas

Roman de Fauvel was

an allegorical story interspersed with Ars Nova music.

Music and art of the Renaissance shared which of these characteristics?

an interest in the individual

The idea that music could be a social accomplishment, widely accepted during the Renaissance period, came from

ancient Greece

The renaissance period is marked by an interest in

ancient Greek culture

u Fay's Missa Se la face ay pale borrows its cantus firmus from the bollowing

ballade

A term used for pre-existing melody used in a new work in late medieval and early Renaissance periods was

cantus firmus

The music of Guillaume Du Fay is best described as

compositions that blended musical characteristics from French, Italian, and English traditions, representing a new international style of composition.

The cantus-firmus mass creates coherence between sections by

constructing each of the parts of the Ordinary around the same cantus firmus, normally placed in the tenor

Organum in which all voices sing in measured rhythm is called

discant

A style of organum in which both voices move in modal rhythm is called

discant style

Du Fay's career was spent

entirely in the service of the duke of Burgandy

In this type of English improvised polyphony, a plainchant in the middle voice is joined by an upper voice a perfect 4th above it and a lower voice singing mostly in parallel thirds below

faburden

The term for the technique whwere two or more voices alternate in rapid succession, each resting while the other sings, developed in the 13th century and used in isorhythmic motets is known as

hocket

THe synthesis of compositional elements from English, French, and Italian musical traditions led to this 15th century compositional style

international style

A plainsong mass gained choherence between parts of the Ordinary by employing

liturgically-appropriate, pre-existing chant, which corresponded with the text of each part

Musical instruments of the 14th century were divided into high and low depending on

loudness and softness

The following idea about Renaissance music was not borrowed from Greek thought

mean-tone temperament

Beginning in the 15th century, the following term referred to a polyphonic setting of a Latin text other than a mass cycle

motet

A mass which utilizes the same melodic motive in the beginning of each part of the mass is called a

motto mass

The Squarcialupi Codex is

one of the main sources of Italian Trecento music

In this compositional technique used in the top voice, the melody is given a rhythm and ornamented by adding notes around those of the chant

paraphrase

In English polyphony, a perpetual canon or round at the unison is called a

rota

The Old Hall manuscript contains

sacred polyphony, including works of Dunstable

In an isorhythmic work, the repeating rhythmic pattern is called the

talea

In cantus firmus masses, the borrowed melody is usually found in the

tenor

The "contenance angloise" refers to

the English style of polyphony

The cantus-firmus mass usually derived its name from

the borrowed melody

THe increase during the 15th and 16th centuries in amateur music making for pleasure or social entertainment is a direct result of

the introduction of music printing and the wider dissemination of written music

Court chapels were significant for music history because

they hired musicians for both sacred and secular music

Jongleurs were

travelling entertainers who juggled as well as sang.

Fauxbourdon is best defined as

two composed voices with an improvised 3rd voice, creating 6-3 chords