Renaissance

An area of research that has yielded information regarding music in prehistoric times:

Archaeology

True/False Organum is a Gregorian melody payed on an organ.

False

True/False Sappho est. the first music school in Greece and is regarded as the father of Greek lyric poetry.

False

True/False The Greek cults of Apollo and Dionysus played similar instruments and the same kind of music.

False

True/False The earliest known musical instrument is a percussion instrument.

False

The source of the most direct influence on the music Rome:

Greece

A designation for the sacred monophony of Catholic liturgy:

Gregorian chant

The early poet-musicians who composed and sang monophonic songs with German text:

Minnesingers

A celebrated composer of the sixteenth century:

Palestrina

The type of texture most prevalent in the music of the sixteenth century:

Polyphonic

The period of Josquin, Palestrina and Lassus:

Renaissance

The founder of the first music school and the father of Greek lyric poetry:

Terpander

The troubadours and trouveres were poet-musicians who wrote aristocratic poems in French dialects and set them to music.

True

True/False Archaeological discoveries and pictorial representations document singing and dancing accompanied by percussion, wind, and string instruments in the earliest civilizations.

True

True/False Gregorian chant, plainchant, plainsong, and cantus planus are designations for the same body of monophonic vocal music.

True

True/False Lassus was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote sacred and secular music with Italian, French, German and Latin text.

True

True/False Music flourished in the earliest civilizations.

True

True/False Music was highly developed and widely practiced in the ancient civilizations of Arabia, India, and the Orient.

True

True/False Music was included by the Greeks in the quadrivium of liberal arts.

True

True/False Palestrina has been regarded as preeminent among composers of Catholic church music for four hundred years.

True

True/False Percussion instruments made about twenty thousand years ago have been unearthed in the Soviet Ukraine.

True

True/False Polyphonic music was printed for the first time by Petrucci in Venice during Josquin's lifetime.

True

True/False The Epitaph of Seikilos is the only known piece of Greek music preserved from antiquity complete and intact.

True

True/False The minnesingers were the German counterparts of the troubadours and trouveres.

True

The type of music most prevalent during the sixteenth century:

Vocal

The century of the golden age of vocal polyphony:

sixteenth