Music History Test #2

The Triumphs of Oriana was

a collection of madrigals in honor of Queen Elizabeth

The frottola was

a folklife homophonic secular song in Italian

The Concerto delle Donne was

a group of women renowned for their singing at noble courts

What is a contrafactum?

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

Point of imitation is defined as

a succession of imitative entrances

In the Renaissance, secular music was ______________

composed by musicians who also composed church music

Which of the following was not a type of improvisatory composition?

consort

Willaert and Zarlino believed that minor intervals, such as the minor 3rd or 6th

could represent sweetness or grief

Which of the following techniques became popular among English keyboardists?

improvisation

In the Renaissance, music for dancing was composed for

social dancing for people of aristocratic backgrounds

Four voice textures as developed in the fifteenth century consisted of __________________

superius, contratenor altus, tenor, contratenor bassus

The contenance angloise refers to _______________

the English Style of polyphony

What is the principal form of Lutheran church music?

Chorale

In what way did the Hundred Years War influence music?

English composers spent time in France

The language used for secular song texts composed in the Burgundian Style was ________________

French

Which of the following statements characterizes Jean Calvin's attitude toward music?

He allowed only unaccompanied singing of psalms at church services

Musica Transalpina was a collection of

Italian madrigals that have been translated into English

Who was Luther's principal musical collaborator?

Johann Walter

One composer known for his lute songs is

John Dowland

Imitation in paired voices is a characteristic of

Josquin

Who published "wholesome" polyphonic music for young poeple, to "rid them of their love ditties and wanton song"?

Martin Luther

What is the principal form of Calvinist church music?

Metrical Psalms

The poet whose work inspired composers of 16th century Italy was

Petrarch

What are the principal forms of Anglican church music?

Service and Anthem

What did Martin Luther call his simplified order of service, intended for use by smaller congregations?

The German Mass

Composers of the late 15th century and early 16th centuries take what approach to cantus-firmus composition?

The treat the melody freely, adding notes for decorations

The theorist who first described counterpoint that considered thirds and sixths consonances was _________

Tinctoris

The polychoral motet was cultivated on a regular basis in

Venice

Aeolian and Ionian modes were _____________

added to the modal system by Heinrich Glareanus

Which of the following is true of musical style in the late 15th century and early 16th centuries?

all voices were nearly equal and all were singable

The Primary audience for printed music were ______________

amateur musicians throughout Europe and the Americas

The idea that music could be a social accomplishment came from

ancient Greece

The Renaissance Period is marked by an interest in ________________

ancient greek culture

A consort is

any combination of instruments in a small group

A mass in which all movements are based on the same preexisting melody is called a

cantus firmus mass

The Italian form derived from French songs is

canzona

A keyboard instrument of the Renaissance is the

clavichord

A mass that quotes more than one voice of a preexisting polyphonic work is called an

imitation mass

The first published works in improvisatory style were inspired by instrumentalists' practice of improvising in association with which other genre?

dances

The Council of Trent

directed local bishops to implement reforms in church music

In the 16th century, percussion instruments were

diverse and refined, but parts were never written out

By the middle of the 16th century, the typical Italian madrigal was written for

five or more voices

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

free mass

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

The movement to embrace human knowledge was called ___________

humanism

Gesualdo is known for

killing his wife and her lover when he discovered them together in bed

A plucked string instrument of the Renaissance is the

lute

Music in an improvisatory style was sometimes notated for

lute

A mass in which all movements begin with the same motive is call a

motto mass

Cadences of the late 15th and early 16th centuries were marked by

occasional use of full triads for the closing sonority

Josquin's Missa Pange lingua is an example of which mass type?

paraphrase mass

A mass in which each movement is based on a preexisting chant for that text is called a

plainsong mass

Intabulation is a notation system used for

plucked instruments

Dance Music of the Renaissance typically used which form?

repeated sections of four-measure phrases

The Burgundian chanson was usually composed in which forms?

rondeau or ballade

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

sackbut

Court chapels were significant for music history because _____________

the hired musicians for both sacred and secular music

Madrigalism can be defined as

the literal depiction of an individual word or phrase

Which of the following statements is true of Catholic music in colonial Latin America?

the music of Morales and other Spanish composers was sung, as well as some original compositions in native languages

Catholic compositions of the 16th century differed from earlier compositions in that

there were five or six voices instead of four

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

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

The chief 16th century keyboard genre in improvisatory style was

toccata

Temperament is ________________

tuning all pitches of a keyboard instrument to make thirds and sixths sound good

Fauxbourdon is best defined as _________________

two composed voices with an improvised third voice, creating 6-3 chords

The main secular vernacular genre of 16th century Spain was

villancico

Gabrieli's Sacrae symphoniae were composed for

vocal ensemble, but were performed on instruments