MUSIC APPRECIATION- The Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Among other causes, why did secular music become more important than sacred music in the fourteenth century?

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Why does Renaissance music sound fuller than medieval music?

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Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of ______.

Christopher Columbus

A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear, popular during the Renaissance, was the ______.

lute

Terpsichore, a collection of over 300 dance tunes, was arranged for instrumental ensemble by ______.

Michael Praetorius

The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages ______.

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The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was ______.

Paris

A famous French woman troubadour was ______.

Beatriz, Countess of Dia

The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed ______.

during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

A virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages was held by _______.

monks in monasteries

Which of the following statements regarding the Renaissance is not true?

Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for church use.

What did Beatriz, Countess of Dia, compose?

A chantar

The _________ was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home.

lute

The word Alleluia _______.

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What is the Renaissance motet?

A polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass

Guillaume de Machaut was a ______________ as well as a musician.

poet

The notation of troubadour and trouvère melodies does not indicate ______.

rhythm

The lute song was widely cultivated in England from ______.

the late 1590s to the 1620s

An estampie is a medieval ______.

dance

A new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by the ______.

early fourteenth century

The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly ______.

polyphonic

Pope Gregory the Great _________.

reorganized the Catholic church liturgy during his reign from 590 to 604

During the Middle Ages, what institution was the center of musical life?

The church

The use of organs in church _______.

bothered the clergy because they distracted the listeners from worship

The first steps in a revolution that eventually transformed western music began sometime between 700 and 900 with the ______.

addition of a second melodic line to Gregorian chant

Which of the following statements is not true of humanism?

The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs.

The earliest extant liturgical morality play, Ordo virtutum (Play of the Virtues), was composed by ______.

Hildegard of Bingen

During the Renaissance, every educated person was expected to ______.

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Which of the following statements is not true of the Renaissance?

The Catholic church was even more powerful in the Renaissance than during the Middle Ages.

The leading music center in sixteenth-century Europe was ______.

Italy

Which of the following statements is not true?

Medieval music theorists favored the use of triads, the basic consonant chords of music.

During the late Middle Ages, the church believed that instrumental music during religious services should be ______.

used only as a discreet accompaniment

The church frowned on instruments because of their ______.

earlier role in pagan rites

Gregorian chant _______.

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Which of the following is not a part of the mass ordinary?

Ave Maria

What is the passamezzo?

A stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavane

To what does a cappella refer?

Unaccompanied choral music

The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning ______.

450-1450

What is the Renaissance madrigal?

A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love

Thomas Weelkes’s As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its _______.

word painting

One of the major characteristics of ars nova music is its use of _______.

syncopation

Gregorian chant consists of _______.

melody sung without accompaniment

Which of the following composers is not an important madrigalist?

Josquin Desprez

Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for ______.

dancing

Which of the following describes a difference between English and Italian madrigals?

A lighter and more humorous tone

The form of the chant Alleluia: Vidimus stellam is ______.

ABA

A(n) _____ can be defined as two simultaneous, repeated notes at the interval of a fifth, played on a psaltery (a plucked or struck string instrument).

drone

Why are Leonin and Perotin notable?

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An attempt was made to purify Catholic church music as a result of the ______.

deliberations of the Council of Trent

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s ______.

music includes 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works

The first steps toward the development of polyphony were taken sometime between 700 and 900, when ______.

monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line to Gregorian chant

The term ars nova refers to ______.

Italian and French music of the fourteenth century

Which statement is true about Palestrina’s Pope Marcellus Mass?

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Which of the following statements is not true?

Josquin spent most of his life in the province of Hainaut, today a part of Belgium.

The intellectual movement called humanism ______.

focused on human life and its accomplishments

Why are Renaissance melodies usually easy to sing?

The melody often moves along a scale with few large leaps.

Bernard of Clairvaux ordered his monks to sing _______.

vigorously with manliness

Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what was then ______.

Flanders

We know from paintings and literary descriptions of the Middle Ages that _______.

instruments were used

Who was Hildegard of Bingen?

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What is the galliard?

A lively dance in triple meter

Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines is called ______.

organum

The Renaissance in music occurred between ______.

The Renaissance in music occurred between ______.

Gregorian chant ________.

is monophonic in texture

Why did the Council of Trent attack the church music of the Renaissance?

It used secular tunes, noisy instruments, and theatrical singing.

Most medieval music was _______.

vocal

Lute songs are mostly __________ in texture.

Homophonic

The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were ______.

on the lowest social level

The expression of ________, as heard in John Dowland’s Flow My Tears, was a prominent feature of English literature and music in the time of William Shakespeare.

melancholy

Guillaume de Machaut’s compositions consist mainly of ______.

love songs with instrumental accompaniment

The development of the English madrigal can be traced to 1588 and considered a result of ______.

the publication in London of a volume of translated Italian madrigals

In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were _______.

priests

Which of the following statements is not true of Renaissance music?

Instrumental music became more important than vocal music during the Renaissance.

Church officials expected monks to sing _______.

with proper pronunciation and tone quality

Palestrina’s career centered in ______.

Rome

As a young student in Paris, Henri de Malines sang ______.

monophonic songs in various languages

What we know about instruments in church comes mainly from _______.

the pictures and literary descriptions of the day

Which of the following is not true of Gregorian chant?

It is usually polyphonic in texture.

How do Gregorian chant melodies tend to move?

Stepwise within a narrow range of pitches

The music the medieval monks sang was called _______.

Gregorian chant

One function of secular music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for ______.

dancing

The earliest surviving chant manuscripts date from about the _______ century.

ninth

Which of the following is not one of the five sections of the Renaissance mass?

Alleluia

The Renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in ______.

Italy

Secular music in the fourteenth century _______.

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The movement in which the Catholic church sought to correct abuses and malpractices within its structure is known as ______.

the Counter-Reformation

Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who ______.

was credited by medieval legend with having created it

In the recording of the medieval estampie, the melody is played on a rebec, a ______.

bowed string instrument

The highlight of the day for monks and nuns was ______.

the mass

A leading English composer of lute songs was ______.

John Dowland

The Renaissance may be described as an age of ______.

All answers are correct.

An outstanding composer of the ars nova was ______.

Guillaume de Machaut

In most lute songs, the lute accompaniment _______.

is subordinate to the voice

John Dowland’s Flow My Tears consists of _______ musical sections that are each immediately repeated.

three

Josquin Desprez spent much of his life in ______.

Italy

Why is Gregorian chant seldom heard today?

The Second Vatican Council of 1962 to 1965 decreed services be in the native language of each country.

William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, Prince Jaufre Rudel, Bernart de Ventadorn and Guillaume le Vinier were all famous ______.

troubadours

The earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm were ______.

Leonin and Perotin

Which of the following statements is not true of the medieval estampie?

It was intended for religious services.

Church authorities in the Middle Ages ____________________ their religious services.

wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to