Intro to Music History

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In the lecture, a poem written when someone dies is called _________

An Epitaph

A jongleur was:

An entertainer who juggled as well as sang

Bach achieves unity of mood in his compositions by using:

An insistent, rhythmic drive

The troubadours date back to the ________ centuries.

Eleventh through thirteenth

Gregorian chant is named for Pope Pius because he was credited with standardizing chant repertory.

False

Orestes wrote a play called "Dionysus".

False

The Ordinary is the part of the mass that changes.

False

Which of the following is NOT true in the youtube recording below ) of the Anonymous Sumer Canon?

In the round only 2 voices are singing the musical line/part which begins "Sumer is icumen In"

The term Baroque was first applied to____

Irregular or mishappen pearls

Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 is unusual in that:

It gives a solo role to the harpsichord.

Which of these do you NOT hear in this recorded Estampie?

It is through composed with no repeated sections

Which is not true of O Magnum Mysterium?

It uses exclusively voices

The term Baroque is now applied to _______

Music from 1600-1750

The earliest surviving books of notated chant date from the late __________

Ninth Century

At what religious institution did Organum fully develop?

Notre Dame Cathedral

The shawm was similar to what modern day instrument

Oboe

In Palestrina's Agnus Dei in the Youtube at marker at 1:14 which words are being sung:

"Qui tollis"

In the YOUTUBE of "Weelkes "As Vesta was from Latmos hill At marker :18 which of the words is painted by the text?—(the music directly reflecting the meaning of the word:

"ascending"

A madrigal has how many verses?

1

The Renaissance period of music comprises roughly which centuries?

15th and 16th

How many voice lines are there in Giovanni Gabrieli's O Magnum Mysterium:

8

The estampie was_____.

A Dance form

Figured bass is________:

A bass line notated with numbers to indicate chords above the bass line.

Which statement is true of surviving examples of secular songs?

A few thousand texts survive, but only some have music

The vielle was which_________ (type of string instrument?)

A five-stringed instrument played with a bow

The term: 'Courtly love' a common subject of secular song usually described_____

A man who loves an unattainable or unavailable woman

The texture of Baroque music is marked by_____:

A polarity between bass and treble lines

Basso continuo is best described as:

A system of notation in which the bass line is provided and performers are expected to flesh out the harmonies above that bass line.

In Gabrieli's O Magnum between 2:58- 3:30 in the Youtube below, which of the following is true?

All answers are correct

Which musical term(s) come from Ancient Greek?

All answers are correct

Which of the following terms is derived from the Ancient Greeks?

All answers are correct

Bach's personal musical style was drawn from:

All answers are correct.

While at Leipzig, Bach:

All answers are correct.

Aside from being a composer, Hildegard von Bingen was also a:

All of these

Love was a main topic of secular song among all but the ________.

All of these sang about love

The figured bass of the Basso continuo led to the consideration and application of sounds:,

As intervals above the bass

The following wind instrument was used in the worship of Dionysus, god of fertility and wine:

Aulos

The most popular ancient Greek wind instrument (also used in the feast of Dionysius was the _

Aulos

Which of these was a troubadour?

Bernart de Ventadorn

According to Aristotle, music imitated ethos through the choice of:

Both scale type and rhythm

The Doctrine of Ethos is the theory that music _______.

Can Influence a person's morality

Which of the following is not a part of the Ordinary?

Cantata

Trouvere and troubadour songs are preserved in manuscript anthologies known as:

Chansonniers

The most important form of music in the Lutheran church was the:

Chorale

Which of the following is NOT a category of chant?

Chromatic

Hildegard of Bingen is known for __________

Composing both the words and music for chants and a liturgical drama

The central impulse of Baroque music, art and architecture is:

Dramatization

The solo instruments in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are the ____________, violin, and harpsichord.

Flute

Of Bach's twenty children, ____________ went on to become well-known composers.

Four

Near the beginning of the Renaissance (in the 15th century) the standard number of voices in polyphonic compositions was:

Four voices

The earliest example(s) of notated Greek dramatic music is (are):

Fragmentary from plays by Euripides

The Baroque style in art, music, and architecture began in:

Italy

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and:

Johann Sebastian Bach

Some of Vivaldi's instrumental concertos were arranged by:

Johann Sebastian Bach.

Who were considered the popular musicians of the Middle Ages?

Jongleurs

The final syllable of "alleluia" is often extended by an effusive melisma called a_________:

Jubilus

The main sung parts of the Ordinary portion of the Mass are__________

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

The longest period of Johann Sebastian Bach's professional life was spent as director of music at St. Thomas's Church in:

Leipzig.

The most common subject matter of the 16th century madrigal is:

Love

Recitation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey would have been accompanied by a (an):

Lyre

The following instrument was associated with Apollo, god of light, prophecy, learning, and the arts:

Lyre

Who were the two great composers of the Notre Dame school?

Léonin and Pérotin

The technique of composing musical images that evoke the text almost literally became known as:

Madrigalisms

Tonal organizations in the Baroque featured:

Major and minor tonalities

Josquin composed works for which genre(s)?

Mass, motet, and chanson

According to the lecture, the Greeks believed that music could have a strong effect on:

Mind, body, and spirit

Beginning in the fifteenth century, the following term referred to a polyphonic musical setting of a Latin text other than a mass cycle:

Motet

In the sixteenth century madrigal, the standard number of singers for each part of the piece (score) is:

One

The instruments of the continuo group usually consist of _____.

One bass instrument such as a viola da gamba, or cello plus a harpsichord or lute

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____________ of his day.

Organist

Name the musical device which happens between :56-and 1:10 in the following YOUTUBE of Purcell's most famous piece "When I am laid in Earth."

Ostinato bass-also known as ground bass

Martin Luther proposed that music should be:

Performed by all participants, including the congregation

Palestrina spent most of his career at institutions in_______

Rome

Texts for early madrigals sometimes used the metaphor of "death" to allude to:

Sexual matters

A lengthy ceremony that might happen more than once a day in cathedrals and monasteries is known as:

The Mass

The Schuola Cantorum was_________

The choir that sang for observances officiated by the pope

"In paradisum" is part of the liturgy for:

The dead

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

The introduction of music printing causing wider dissemination of written music

In paradisum" is sung by:

The priest and the entire religious community

In Baroque music affections can be defined as:

Theory of musical aesthetics, widely accepted in the late Baroque that embraced the proposition that music is capable of arousing a variety of specific emotions within the listener.

Which of the following is NOT true of the Organum Alleluia Diffusa Est in this youtube?

There is not a long held note in the tenor starting at :31-:51 in the youtube

Catholic compositions of the sixteenth century differed from earlier compositions for the church in that_____

There were 5 or 6 voices, instead of 4

Which of these is not a musical instrument found in ancient Greece?

Trombone

According to the lecture, the Greeks believed music could have a beneficial effect on both mind and body. . thus it could create an ethical person.

True

Approximately 40 fragments of Greek music still exist today.

True

Dionysus was the Greek god of wine.

True

Hildegard used an idiosyncratic system of modes, which was unique to her, in that it did not adhere to the usual modes used in the Middle Ages.

True

Originally Hildegard and her nuns co-existed with monks in the same monastery, but eventually received their own convent.

True

Plainchant is monophonic (one musical line, sung in unison)

True

The creation of polyphony allowed Western Music to flourish and become what it is today.

True

Hildegard of Bingen composed in the ________ century.

Twelfth Century

Between 1:36-2:00: Then 3:02-3:20 in the Youtube below of Monteverdi's "Possente Spirto" which of the following is true?

Two Ritornellos are played—first violins, then brass-like instruments called "zinks"

Baroque composers believed that music should be:

Used as a means of expressing and arousing emotions in the listener

The following instrument was not commonly used as a continuo instrument:

Violin

A typical baroque operatic form was the da capo aria in ABA form in which the singer:

Was expected to embellish the returning melody with ornamental tones.

Secular song (of the Minnesingers, Meistersingers) in Germany_______ .

Was influenced by the music of the troubadours but was written in German

A two-part collection of preludes and fugues, one in each major and minor key, basic to the repertoire of keyboard players today, is Bach's

Well-Tempered Clavier.

Which of the following statements is true of women's participation in madrigal performance and composition?

Women performed madrigals but lacked therarely received musical compositional training to compose them.

Realization is________:

filling in the chords above a bass line according to the numbers above the line

What kind of musical texture is exhibited in the youtube of Josquin's "Ave Maria" between markers 1:21-1:27?

homophonic texture


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