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