Music 4: Exam 2

J.s.bach Church cantatas all contain solo Arias recitatives and ----

Choruses

The principal components of Opera include Arias recitative overtures and

Choruses

The first type of notated secular music was plain chant

False

The main rhythmic pattern found in Sumer is short - short - short - long

False

The music of the early Christian Church service was largely polyphonic

False

The preeminent composers of sacred Renaissance motets for from Southern Italy

False

The text setting in Alleluia o virga is mostly syllabic

False

The two categories of Prayer in the Catholic mass during the Renaissance were the ordinary and the extraordinary

False

Which era does Sumer exemplify

Middle Ages

Fair Phyllis features repeated sections with repeated text

True

Gregorian chant can be characterized as monophonic vocal composition

True

Hildegard's chant Alleluia was intended for performance on a feast day for the virgin

True

Homer Rhythm describe the texture in which all the voices are rhythmically Homer Rhythm describe the texture in which all the voices are rhythmically aligned

True

Many of Bach cantatas are elaborations of protestant chorale or hymn Tunes

True

Many of Bach cantatas were intended for devotional use

True

Most surviving examples of Gregorian chant are anonymous

True

Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass was probably intended for a cappella performance

True

How many movements are there in J S Bach cantata number 140

7

Composers in the Renaissance often used ---- in one voice as a basis for elaborate ornamentation in other voices

A cantus firmus

Dido and Aeneas was first presented by

A group of girls at a boarding school

The constant imitation from beginning to end in between the voices of Sumer its characteristic of its genre which is

A round

Nicoli's Lutheran chorale Wachet is in bar form which is best described as

A-A-B

Which best describes the chorale Melody as it is heard in the Fourth Movement of Bach cantata

All voices are singing the chorale Melody

The lower two voices in Sumer sing short repeated ideas known as

An ostinato

Why does Dido sing a lament at the end of the Opera

Because Aeneas left her

How does josquin create musical contrast in the final two lines of the text

Both A&B, by using long note values but using a homo rhythmic texture

The Catholic Church's effort in the early sixteenth Century to recapture the Loyalty of its followers through a return to True Christian piety is known as the

Counter Reformation

The following statements are true about motet except

Each voice sings a different text praising the Virgin Mary

One of the earliest examples of secular polyphony comes from

England

A capella style refers to singing with instrumental accompaniment

False

A ground base is only hurt at the beginning of Dido's Aria

False

Bach church cantatas are single movement works

False

Bach wrote most Baroque genres except chamber music

False

During the Renaissance the mass was recited and sung in the vernacular

False

Gregorian chant features regularly phrase melodic lines supported by Instrumental accompaniment

False

Gregorian chant usually features multiple texts occurring simultaneously

False

Humanists were inspired by ancient Egyptian culture

False

Johann Sebastian Bach had an international career

False

Martin Luther and fellow reformer John Calvin believed only priests who are trained singer should participate in church music making

False

Martin Luther was the leader of the Protestant Counter Reformation

False

Palestrina's Gloria from the Pope Marcellus Mass belongs to the proper, the variable part of the mass of aberration

False

Sumer has no repeated musical sections

False

Syllabic singing is represented by more than one note per syllable

False

The English Madrigal preceded the development of the Italian Madrigal by some twenty years

False

The Madrigal flourished principally in France

False

The Sanctus is the only Mass section sun in Greek

False

The art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome was of little interest to artists and writers in the Renaissance

False

The chance of the Catholic Church use only the major and minor scale patterns found in later music

False

The earliest Opera plots were drawn from real-life situations

False

What is the structural basis for Dido's Aria

Ground Bass

Where was Purcell employed when he wrote Dido and Aeneas

He was a music teacher in a girl's school

The period in which there was a surge in rational, scientific, problem solving in the Renaissance is called

Humanism

The predominant texture in josquin's motet is

Imitative polyphony

Which is not true of an overture

It is generally played Again between scenes

Despite being of Northern Europe, josquin spent most of his career in

Italy

---- melodic scale patterns were preferred in the Middle Ages

Modal

Which of the prayers in the mass ordinary is not in Latin

Kyrie

Which of the following make up the sections of the mass ordinary

Kyrie, Gloria, credo, Sanctus, Angus dei

Which language is josquin's motet text written

Latin

J.s.bach spent the last several decades of his life working at st. Thomas Church in

Leipzig

The text of an opera is known as a

Libretto

For which church denomination did J s Bach write his cantatas

Lutheran

Fair Phyllis is best described as a

Madrigal

Which was a recommendation of the Council of Trent regarding music for the church

Make the words more understandable

A melody in which there are many notes sung pre syllable is referred to as

Melismatic

Which of the following is not typical of the Renaissance motet

Monophonic texture and sung in the vernacular

Which of the following was an early master of Italian opera

Monteverdi

In the Lutheran tradition the cantata was performed along with the Gospel reading sermon and prayers on

Most Sundays of the church year

Josquin's Ave Maria incorporates an older Gregorian chant

Only briefly at the beginning

Most important news owner of the Baroque era

Opera

Who wrote the chorale text and tune for Wachet

Philip Nicolai

The melodica texture of Sumer is best described as

Polyphonic

The texture of Sumer is best described as

Polyphonic

Which musical style best describes the opening line "tht hand Belinda darkness Shades me"

Recitative

Dinosaurios into sections. Which line Begins the second section

Remember me, but ah forget my fate

The energetic instrumental idea that recur several times between the vocal statements in the first movement of J S Bach cantata number 140 is best described as

Ritornello

In which form is Sumer set

Round

The English version of Sumer is icumen in is best described as

Secular music

Which was not a recommendation of the Council of Trent regarding music for the church

Singing the vernacular

Which voices sing the original Chorale tune in the first movement of cantata number 140

Soprano

The text of Sumer tells of

Summer the season of renewal

Narrative multimedia is an art form that

Tells a story

The Libretto for Dido and Aeneas is based upon

The Aeneid

The Protestant movement led by Martin Luther is known as

The Reformation

The text of josquin's motet Ave Maria praises the virtues of

The Virgin Mary

For what religious occasion was J S. Bach cantata number 140 written

The end of the church the end of the church year

In Baroque Opera what happens to the time during an aria

Time stops

In the Aria Dido sings remember me but forget my fate. What was what was her fate

To die

Acapella singing met the demands for clarity of text set forth at the Council of Trent

True

And unique feature of Hildegard chant is her occasional use of an upward lead of a fifth lending a dramatic fuel to the music

True

Cathedral choir schools where are training centers for male singers in the Renaissance

True

Early musical notation was fostered in monasteries and Cloisters

True

Palestrina experimented with different textures and density of voices in his Gloria from the Pope Marcellus Mass

True

The Fourth Movement of cantata number 140 features the tenor section singing in unison

True

The Liturgy refers to the set order and structure of each service in the Catholic Church

True

The Masque was an English entertainment that combined music and poetry

True

The Pope Marcellus Mass was written for six voice parts

True

The harmony of the palestrina's Gloria from the Pope Marcellus Mass is described as full and consonant

True

The original singers of Sumer were probably male

True

The principal owners of Renaissance secular music are strictly monophonic in texture

True

The text of most sacred Renaissance motets was in Latin

True

The text of the Gloria and palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass is easily understood due largely to its syllabic nature and palestrina's frequent use of homo rhythm

True

The two main services for the Roman Catholic Church are the daily offices and the mass

True

The use of a fixed melody in One Voice Was compositional technique found in sacred Renaissance motets

True

While in Leipzig Bach was responsible for directing the University Music Group

True

Women do not originally sing the higher range Parts in palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass

True

the most popular subject of the Sacred Renaissance motet was the Virgin Mary

True

An aria is characterized by

Tuneful and highly emotive melodies

How does Purcell musically depict Dido's grief in the Aria

With descending chromatic bass line

Music performed without instrumental accompaniment is called

a capella

Reading of lessons and singing of psalms was a part of daily services in medieval:

both a & b; convents and monestaries

Hildegard was known for all the following EXCEPT:

her historical writings about saints

The text Alleluia, O virga mediatrix is from which portion of the Mass?

the proper