Intro To Music MIDTERM
18. When did the musical style known as Ars nova first appear?
14th century
rhythm,
A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
7. What entities provided financial support for medieval and Renaissance musicians?
Church, city, state, courts
42. The Catholic Church's effort in the early sixteenth century to recapture the loyalty of its followers through a return to true Christian piety is known as the _________.
Counter-Reformation
1. Who of the following are Renaissance artists?
Da Vinci; Michelangelo
order of sharps
FCGDAEB
4. The beginning of the Middle Ages is marked by what event?
Fall of western roman empire
8. In the middle ages, the status of women was raised by the universal cult of who?
Mary, Mother of Christ
Organum,
Medieval polyphony
13. Hildegard's modal melodies have similarities to the melodies and scales used by which sacred traditions?
Middle Eastern
16. Which of the following is not descriptive life in a medieval monastery?
Religious life was quite disciplined. Members withdrew from secular society.Members were devoted to prayer.
36. In the Renaissance two important _____ genres grew out of the union of poetry and music: the French _____ and the _____ madrigal.
Secular, chansons, italian
25. Religious ______ like the Crusades and medieval explorations allowed for an exchange of musical instruments with Middle ______ cultures.
Wars, eastern
motet,
a short piece of sacred choral music, typically polyphonic and unaccompanied.
plainsong.
another term for Gregorian chant
47. What is a cantus firmus and how was it used?
base line to
24. Which instruments stem from Turkish models?
bells, cymbals, bass drums
30. early madrigal (c. 1525-50)
chiefly composed for amateurs
2. What employment opportunities were available for a musician in the Middle Ages?
chior masters singers organists composers
20. Music, mathematics, geometry, and astronomy were considered a part of the four topics essential in medieval _______.
education
37. Madrigalisms enhanced the _____ content of the music.
emotional
33. What is the texture of the last line of Fair Phyllis?
homorhythmic
melody,
horizontal
melismatic.
long group of notes to a syllable
27. What was a popular French secular song genre in the Ars nova?
love poems?
43. Who started the Protestant Reformation with his Ninety-Five Theses?
martin luther
12. Chant melodies are described as syllabic, neumatic, or ____, based on how many notes are set to each _____ of the text.
melismatic, syllable
17. The pre-tonal scale patterns utilized in Gregorian chant are referred to as _________.
modes
15. Which of the following describe plainchant of the Middle Ages and which do not?
monophonic; organized according to the liturgy; Latin text
26. During the Ars nova, which element of music fell out of favor?
monophony
32. Farmer "paints" the first line of the text, "Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone," through the musical use of:
monophony
polyphonic
multi-melodic
monophonic,
one melody
syllabic.
one note to each syllable
40. Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass is a setting of the Mass ______.
ordinary
Agnus Dei
ordinary
Credo
ordinary
Gloria
ordinary
Kyrie
ordinary
meter,
patterns and organizing
14. Monophonic sacred music of the early Christian church is called _______.
plainchant;
45. In the Catholic Mass, the parts that change according to the day belong to the
proper
Gradual
proper
Introit
proper
Offertory
proper
23. Which Arabic instrument is the forerunner of the modern violin?
rabab
strophic
repeated music for each stanza
10. define liturgy?
set order of church services and structure
middle madrigal (1550-1580)
texture expanded to 5 or 6 voices written to harmonic and virtuosic extremes
48. How did English composers diverge from the Italian Madrigal?
the English madrigals were more humorous and lighter, with simpler harmony and melody than the Italian.
19. Which secular medieval musicians entertained at the higher social levels?
troubadours
34. Which of the following does not characterize the Renaissance madrigal?
use of French poetry
46. Which of the following were critiques from the Cardinals at the Council of Trent?
use of popular music in the Mass embellishment of Gregorian melodies the inappropriate attitude of church musicians
harmony,
vertical
22. What role in music was Pythagoras renowned?
was renowned for his musical experiments.
a cappella,
without instrumental accompaniment
final phase madrigal (1580-1620)
written to harmonic and virtuosic extremes
21. What was the period that immediately preceded the Ars nova called?
Ars Antiqua
29. What is the voicing of Farmer's madrigal Fair Phyllis?
BATS
order of flats
BEADGCF
38. Claudio ______ famously stated that his music was designed to serve the expressive power of his ________.
Monteverdi, texts
3. During the Renaissance, which lands did the Europeans explore that were new to them?
North and South America
31. At which point in the text of Fair Phyllis do the voices imitate each other in rapid succession?
"Up and down"
50. Who were the preeminent composers of the motet in the early Renaissance (1450-1520)?
Josquin des Prez north europe
41. What are the parts of that belong to the Mass Ordinary?
KGCSAD
35. Which instrument was commonly found in particularly prosperous Renaissance homes?
LUTE
28. Who was the first composer to collect his works in order to preserve his legacy?
Machaut
Homorhythmic,
Texture in which all voices, or lines, move together in the same rhythm.
