Music Appreciation Listening Quiz - Chapter 6: The Middle Ages (6-10)
This excerpt is from which work?
The correct answer is "Guillaume de Machaut, "Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient""
This excerpt is taken from what kind of chant?
The correct answer is "Hawai'ian mele pule"
The excerpt heard here comes from which work?
The correct answer is "Josquin's "Mille regrets""
The excerpt heard here comes from which work?
The correct answer is "Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass"
This excerpt is taken from what kind of chant?
The correct answer is "Qur'anic recitation"
The excerpt heard here is from which work?
The correct answer is "The Coronation of Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi"
Which sentence accurately describes this chant?
The correct answer is "The singer uses a central reciting tone and only one other prominent pitch."
This passage is an example of which style of presenting words in an opera?
The correct answer is "recitative"
This music is written in what mode?
The correct answer is "the major mode"
This dance by Frescobaldi is in what meter?
The correct answer is "triple"
This is an example of what kind of music?
This is an example of what kind of music?
What describes the texture and meter of this passage?
The correct answer is "monophonic and nonmetrical"
This is an example of what type of music?
The correct answer is "organum"
In this section of the gigue from Bach's Suite No. 2 in D Minor, we hear the cellist
The correct answer is "playing harmonies by bowing two adjacent strings at the same time."
What do you hear in this passage from Josquin's Pange lingua Mass?
The correct answer is "points of imitation"
In this excerpt from Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, what does the flute play?
The correct answer is "short, detached notes followed by a trill and a series of long, higher notes"
The three solo violins in this passage from Vivaldi's Spring are meant to sound like what?
The correct answer is "singing birds"
In what order do the first three voice parts enter in this passage from Josquin's Pange lingua Mass?
The correct answer is "tenor, bass, soprano"
This excerpt is from which work?
The correct answer is "the plainchant antiphon "In paradisum""
This section of the minuet from Handel's Royal Fireworks Music is in what meter?
The correct answer is "triple"
What is used to mark the beat in this music?
The correct answer is "two sticks struck together"
In this passage from Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, the solo flute and violin play
The correct answer is "with imitative polyphony."
Which terms describe the texture and meter of this chant?
The correct answer is "monophonic and nonmetric"
The excerpt heard here is from which work?
The correct answer is ""O magnum mysterium" by Giovanni Gabrieli"
What do you hear in this passage from Vivaldi's Spring?
The correct answer is "An a phrase is played loudly, then repeated softly, and then it is followed by a loud, contrasting b phrase."
The excerpt heard here is from which work?
The correct answer is "Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell"
What do you hear in this passage from Dufay's "Ave maris stella"?
The correct answer is "Dufay's harmonized paraphrase of the original Gregorian hymn"
This dance is in what meter?
The correct answer is "Duple."
Which is true of this excerpt from "K'adnikini'ya'"?
The correct answer is "The drum keeps a steady beat throughout."
What describes the use of meter in this passage?
The correct answer is "The meter changes from triple to duple."
What happens after the brief stop (cadence) in this passage from the second movement of Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in G?
The correct answer is "The music changes from the major mode to the minor mode."
Which do you hear in this passage?
The correct answer is "The upper voices sing in triple-time rhythms while the lowest voice continues the chant."
The excerpt heard here comes from which work?
The correct answer is "Weelkes's "As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending""
This is an example of what kind of music?
The correct answer is "West African minstrel song"
What are you mainly hearing in this excerpt?
The correct answer is "a choral ostinato, with soloists breaking in above the chorus"
In this passage from Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, the orchestra interrupts the soloists to play
The correct answer is "a fragment of the ritornello."
What is especially prominent on the final syllable you hear in this passage?
The correct answer is "a melisma"
What contributes to the mournful quality of this passage?
The correct answer is "a slow, descending bass line"
This is an example of what type of music?
The correct answer is "a troubadour song"
What are the low-pitched strings playing in this excerpt?
The correct answer is "an ostinato pattern"
This passage is an example of which style of presenting words in an opera?
The correct answer is "aria"
In Baroque instrumental music, what did composers rely on to let listeners know what to expect and roughly how long a piece would last?
The correct answer is "conventional forms and genres"
How many musical phrases do you hear in this excerpt?
The correct answer is "five"
What is the texture of this excerpt from "Hanaq pachap kusikuyin"?
The correct answer is "homophonic"
This texture of this dance is mainly
The correct answer is "homophonic."
Which do you hear in this excerpt?
The correct answer is "homophony"
This passage is a good example of what type of texture?
The correct answer is "imitative polyphony"
Which of the following do you hear in this passage from Hildegard of Bingen's "Columba aspexit"?
The correct answer is "melismas on certain syllables and an instrumental drone accompanying the singers"
What instruments do you hear in this music?
What instruments do you hear in this music?
Which is featured in this passage?
Which is featured in this passage?
