Prelude 2 quiz mus 100

Which of the following is a true statement

During the Renaissance printed music became available and music literacy spread

One of the major advancements in the Renaissance was the invention of printing, pioneered by

Johannes Gutenberg

Who of the following was a Renaissance visual artist

Leonardo da Vinci

Which is true statement regarding early music performances of medieval and Renaissance music

Many aspects of early music performance are open to speculation

Which is true of trade during the middle ages

Musicians and their works moved along trade routes

Which of the following statements is true of paintings and sculpture from the Renaissance

Painters explored the beauties of nature, painters and sculptors studied the nude human form as a thing of beauty, and the laws of perspective were applied to paintings

Two of the earliest named composers of organum from the NOtre Dame Cathedral were Leonin and

Perotin

Which is a true statement regarding early music notation

Tempo and dynamic markings were absent.

During the middle ages, all power came from which religious organization

The Roman Catholic Church

Which of the following is a true statement

The influence of European musical styles surpasses that of any of it languages or religions

In regards to the troubadours and trouveres, which of the following statement is not true

They wrote sacred music

Who were the most prominent performers of secular music in medieval France

Troubadours and trouveres

Which statement regarding musical notation is true

Western music notation was invented to further the goals of Christian worship

After the fall of COnstantinople to the Turks, ___ writings were brought to Europe in increasing number

ancient Green and Roman

Women musicians in the Renaissance earned their livings as

court singers

The beginning of the Middle Ages was marked by the

fall of the Roman Empire

The Renaissance marks the passing of European society from predominately secular society to a more sacred one

false

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

false

The middle East had no influence on European musical styles

false

Medieval and Renaissance musicians could find employment in which of the following professions

instrument building, teaching, and copists

Which did not occur in the later Middle Ages

introduction to printing

Music as a commodity means that music

is preserved, taught and learned, bought and sold

During the Renaissance, lands new to the Europeans were discovered, including

the Americas

The most universally idealized woman in Western culture during the Middle Ages was

the Virgin Mary

Our understanding of the musical culture of ancient civilizations is limited by the small number of fragments of music that have survived

true