Music History Middle Ages and Renaissance

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The chant tradition centered in the city of Milan is known as __________.

Ambrosian chant

The lyre was associated with which Greek god?

Apollo

In a thirteenth-century motet, the second voice from the bottom is called the __________.

Duplum

Obrecht's works include secular songs in which language?

Dutch p200

The Worcester fragments are __________.

English manuscripts from Worcester shows that motets were open to reworking. P105

The earliest known composer of Mesopotamia is __________.

Enheduanna, a high priestess who composed hymns

Which of the following statements is true of art music in ancient Rome?

Images, written descriptions, and some instruments are all that remain.

Which of the following statements is true of ancient Greek music education?

Music and gymnastics were considered to be essential subjects in education.

The correct chronological order for sources of organum is __________.

Musica enchiriadis, Ad organum faciendum, Magnus Liber Organi

Polyphonic treatment was applied to __________.

NOT: choral portions of the Ordinary of the Mass and Office n/a

Which of these statements is true?

NOT:Nuns were prohibited from singing or speaking during services. N/A

The troubadours wrote and sang songs in which language?

Occitan (langue d'Oc)

The Missa Cuisvis toni is special because __________.

it can be sung in any mode

Musical instruments of the fourteenth century were divided into high and low depending on __________.

loudness and softness p139

What is/are the principal form(s) of Calvinist church music?

metrical psalm

Which of the following is not an innovation by Guido of Arezzo?

modal theory p44

The Magnus liber organi was __________.

a book of organum begun by Leoninus and updated by Perotinus

A chansonnier was __________.

a book of songs

The Triumphs of Oriana was __________.

a collection of madrigals in honor of Queen Elizabeth

The Concerto delle Donne was __________.

a group of women trained singers

"Courtly love" as expressed in song usually described __________.

a man who loves an unattainable or unavailable woman

The doctrine of imitation holds that __________.

a person will imitate the ethos of the music they hear

What is a contrafactum?

a piece in which a new text, usually sacred, is added to preexisting music

A mass in which each movement is based on a preexisting chant for that text is called a(n) __________.

plainsong mass

The rhythm of ancient Greek music was intimately tied to __________.

poetic meter

The Schola Cantorum was __________.

(School of Singers) the choir that songa when the pope officiated at observances, founded in late 7th century. P29

The sign for imperfect time and imperfect prolation survives today as the sign for __________.

4/4 time

The earliest notated chantbooks date from __________.

9th centuy

Which statement is true of surviving examples of secular song?

A few thousand texts survive, but only some have music.

Which of the following is true of musical style in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?

All voices were nearly equal and all were singable

When sung, the sequence typically follows the __________.

Alleluia

Which of these chants has a text that can be set as an ABA form?

Alleluia

The sixth-century writer who compiled a compendium of Greek music theory based on Nichomachus and Ptolemy was __________.

Boethius

Hexachords can begin on which pitches?

C, F, G

Which of these polyphonic genres was not one that Dunstable used?

Cantus-firmus masses

The leading madrigal composer in the middle of the sixteenth century was __________.

Cipriano de Rore p250

Organum in which all the voices sing in measured rhythm is called __________.

Discant

For much of the Renaissance, musicians working in Italy had been trained in __________.

France, the Netherlands, or Flanders

A new system of rhythmic notation based on relationships among the shapes of individual notes and their duration was described in the thirteenth century by _______.

Franco of Cologne

The fourteenth-century French system of rhythmic notation was based on __________.

Franconian notation

Byrd's music for the Mass was published in __________.

Gradualia p224

The composer whose poetry influenced Chaucer and other famous poets is __________.

Guillaume de Machaut

Which of the following statements best reflects Josquin's approach to text setting?

He gave a new melody to each new phrase of text to make it clear.

Hans Sachs is known for what achievement?

He was the best-known Meistersinger.

Which of the following statements best describes Josquin's career?

He worked for several employers, both secular and religious.

Which statement is true of the isorhythmic motet in the early fifteenth century?

It was considered old-fashioned but was composed in honor of special occasions.

Musica Transalpina was a collection of __________.

Italian madrigals that had been translated into English

The main sung parts of the Ordinary portion of the Mass are __________.

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

Music in an improvisatory style was sometimes notated for __________.

Lute

Which of the following statements is true of the notation of secular song?

Only pitch was notated precisely.

The center for polyphonic composition in the thirteenth century was __________.

Paris

The poet whose work inspired composers of sixteenth century Italy was __________.

Petrarch

Which of the following statements is true?

Renaissance musicians used many devices to try to sway listeners' emotions.

The Renaissance period of music comprises roughly which centuries?

The fifteenth and sixteenth

Which of the following statements describes the way(s) in which the bassus voice of the late fifteenth century differs from that of the masses of Du Fay?

The range is a fourth lower. P 196

Which of the following statements describes the sources for notated music of ancient Greece?

There are few surviving examples.

The polychoral motet was cultivated on a regular basis in ____________.

Venice

Which of these descriptions best characterizes English music in the thirteenth century?

Voice-exchange and preference for imperfect consonances

Vocal ranges of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries tended to span __________.

above a twelfth

The definition of trope is __________.

an addition of words, music, or both to an established chant

Roman de Fauvel was __________.

an allegorical story interspersed with Ars Nova music

A consort is __________.

any combination of instruments in a small group

The term conductus refers to __________.

any serious Latin song with a rhymed, rhythmical text regardless of the subject

The most popular ancient Greek wind instrument was the __________.

aulos

Ockeghem's Missa prolationem employs which compositional technique?

canon p197

Fauxbourdon is best defined as __________.

cantus and tenor moving mostly in parallel sixths and ending each phrase on octave. A third unwritten voice sangin exact parallel a fourth below cantus. P182

The Italian form derived from French songs is __________.

canzona

Chanson de Roland is an example of a(n) __________.

chanson de geste

In the Renaissance, secular music was __________.

composed by musicians who also composed church music

Temperament is __________.

in which pitches were adjusted to make most or all intervals usable without adding keys. P159

The estampie and istampita were __________.

dance forms

The three genera of tetrachords in the Greek system of music theory are __________.

diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic

Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass is an example of which mass type?

free mass: using neither canons nor borrowed material p230

Which of these compositional techniques used by Isaac can be traced to popular music in Italy?

homophony

The main textures for the Renaissance were __________.

homophony and imitative counterpoint

Ottavio Petrucci is known for __________.

publishing music using a three-impression method

The eight church modes are defined primarily by their __________.

range, final, and reciting tone

Dance music of the Renaissance typically used which form?

repeated sections of four-measure phrases

A(n) __________ chant is sung by a soloist in alternation with a choir.

responsorial

The Renaissance instrument that is related to the modern trombone is the __________.

sackbut

The Old Hall manuscript contains __________.

sacred polyphony, including works of Dunstable

The Council of Trent outlawed all but four __________.

sequences

Isaac's Lieder can best be described as __________.

similar in style to French language chansons

The duke of Burgundy employed __________.

singers for his chapel, organists, wind instrument players, and string instrumentalists

In the Renaissance, music for dancing was composed for __________.

social dancing for people of aristocratic backgrounds

The medieval motet began as an elaboration or troping of which genre?

substitute clausulae

Four-voice texture as developed in the fifteenth century consisted of __________.

superius, contratenor altus, tenor, contratenor bassus

The voice that holds the chant melody is called the __________.

tenor

The church fathers believed __________.

that music could be good or evil and that only the right kinds of music should be sung in worship

What is/are the principal form(s) of Anglican church music?

the Service (containing music for parts of the liturgy) and the anthem.

The main feature of musique mesurée was __________.

the artificial assignment of long and short values to vowel sounds

The Messe de Nostre Dame is notable because __________.

the first polyphonic mass to be written by a single composer and conceived as a unit. P124

Madrigalism can be defined as __________.

the literal depiction of an individual word or phrase

Musica ficta is __________.

the use of pitches outside of the gamut

Which of the following statements best describes the style of Josquin's chansons?

they used strophic texts with virtually no use of the formes fixes

Some liturgical dramas originated as __________.

tropes with dialogues or more elaborate plays in Latin

The aristocratic composer-poets of northern France were the __________.

trouvères

Which of the following techniques became popular among English keyboardists?

variation

Early in the first century C.E., Jewish music __________.

was performed by a choir of Levites at the Temple of Jerusalem

Which of these statements best describes women's role in Renaissance music-making?

women were expected to learn music as part of a lady's education?


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