Music Appreciation Quiz 2

The musical process used by Renaissance composers to represent poetic images musically is called:

word painting

The Renaissance, as a musical-stylistic period, encompassed the years

1450-1600

Iberian King known for his patronage of music and collection of it in illustrated manuscripts (Cantigas de Santa Maria/Songs for the Virign Mary)

Alfonso

In a "word painting" musical piece, if the text spoke of ascending up a hill, what would the melody do?

Be sung up the scale (rising in pitch)

What is a more solemn formal stately dance in a duple meter (in twos) with its participants dancing and moving around with prearranged stopping and starting places with the music?

Pavanne

Important French composer of the Middle Ages who spent the end of his life around Reims (now in France)

Guillaume de Machaut

Musical instruments were not played during the Middle Ages

False

One of the most important composers of the Renaissance

Josquin des Prez

Match the composer to the appropriate time period-medieval renaissance: hildegard of bingen, guillaume de machaut, thomas weelkes, william kemp, martin luther, josquin es prez, giovanni pieruigi da palestrina, william byrd

Middle Ages: Bingen and Machaut; Renaissance: Weelkes, Kemp, Luhter, Prez, Palestrina, Byrd

What is the genre for this piece that is a sacred actin text polyphonic choral work not taken from the ordinary of the mass?

Motet

All of the following things happened during the Renaissance period, EXCEPT:

Newton's statement of the law of gravity

Ancient philosopher thought of as the father of the study of acoustics

Pythagoras

The succession and division from the practices of the Roman Catholic Church initiated by Martin Luther became known as the:

Reformation

Growing use of thirds and triads. Which time period?

Renaissance Music characteristics

Majority of the music's rhythm is indicated by musical notation. Which time period?

Renaissance music characteristics

As a result of the Reformation, congregations began singing strophic hymns in German with stepwise melodies during their worship services.

True

Individuals in the middle ages used music to accompany worship and entertainment

True

Narrow-ranged melodies and repeated rhythmic patterns make songs more accessible to non-professional musicians

True

Visual Artists of the renaissance shifted the subject of their works from the religious symbolism to the realistic depiction of the human body features.

True

Vocal music without accompaniment is identified as:

a cappella

In the Middle Ages you would have been most likely to hear chant

at a church service

A text set to a melody written in monophonic texture with un-notated rhythms typically used in religious worship is called a:

chant

a raised strip on the neck of a stringed instrument; usually extends across the full width of the neck and divides the string into half steps for most western musical instruments; most guitars have several of these

fret

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Medieval Style?

mainly polyphony

Majority of the music's rhythm comes from the text. which time period?

medieval music characteristics

Music instruction predominantly restricted to the church and patron's courts. Which time period?

medieval music characteristics

most music comes form the courts or church. which time period

medieval music characteristics

use of perfect intervals such as fourths, fifths, and octaves for cadences. which time period?

medieval music characteristics

Texture consisting of only one musical line, sometimes sung in unison or in octaves

monophony

Texture of two or more different melodic lines of equal interest performed simultaneously

polyphony

A repeating musical section, generally also having repeated text, sometimes also called a chorus

refrain

Invention of music publishing. which time period?

renaissance music characteristics

Music - text relationships increasingly important with the use of word painting. which time period?

renaissance music characteristics

growing merchant class increasingly acquires musical skills. which time period?

renaissance music characteristics

Music in which each syllable of a text is set to one musical note is referred to as:

syllabic

Words that describe how many text syllables were set to each musical pitch

syllabic & melismatic

Hildegard of Bingen was

the first woman composer from the GermanRhineland, known as a visionary leader, and abbess of a convent (/all of the above)