Music History Middle Ages and Renaissance
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?
