Music 105 test 2 Example For Students

Music 105 test 2 450-1450 The middle ages refers to the period of European history spanning? 1 Curiosity and Individualism 2 Exploration and Adventure 3 Rebirth of Human Creativity The Renaissance Maybe be described as an age of? Priests Who were the most important musicians of the Middle Ages? Monks in Monasteries A monopoly of learning in the Middle Ages was held by whom? The church What was the center of music life in the Middle Ages? Pagan Rites Why does the church frown on instruments? Organ What bothered clergy because of its disturbance from during worship? Pictures and literary descriptions What we know about instruments from the middle age and Renaissance come from where? Vocal Most medieval music was what type of music? Discreet Accompaniment During the Middle Ages, the church believed music should only be used as what? Gregorian Chants What type of music did medieval monks sing? Monophonic What type of texture are Gregorian Chants? Gregorian Chants What type of music consisted of a melody sung without accompaniment Pope Gregory I Who gave the name of the Gregorian Chant, and was a medieval legend. Offices and mass What were the two types of services at which monks and nuns sang? Ninth Century The survival of chant manuscripts date from the? Church Modes The basic scales of western music during the Middle Ages were?, They consist of seven different tones. ABA Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam is in what form? Hildegard of Bingen The first women composer to leave a large number of works that have survived. Abes the convenient of Rupertsberg? Hildegard of bingen Who composed the earliest play Ordo Virtutum? Twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed during the? Troubadours and Troveres The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed by? Crusaders, dancing, and love The French secular songs of the Middle Ages were often concerned with the? Rhythm The notation of troubadour and trouvère melodies does not indicate? The Wandering Minstrels, or Jongelurs Who performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares, lived on the lowest level of society, and played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes? Secular What type of music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for dancing. Estampie This is a medieval dance Instrumental Music The medieval estampie is one of the earliest surviving pieces of what? Single melodic lines, instrument The medieval estampies. manuscripts contains only? And it does not which ______ should be played? Second melodic Line The first steps in a revolution that eventually transformed western music began sometime between 700 and 900 with the addition of a__________ to Gregorian Chant? Organum Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines is called what? Paris What was the intellectual and artistic capitol of Europe during the late medieval period. Perotin Who was among the first known composers to write music with more than two voices? Paris The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was? Placing new melodic lines against known chants. In medieval times, most polyphonic music was created by? Leonin and Perotin they are the first important composers known by name, indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music, and were the leaders of the school of Notre Dame. Leonin and Perotin The earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm. were? Syncopation One of the major characteristics of ars nova music is its use of? Ars Nova This term refers to Italian and French music of the 14th centruy. Early 14th century new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by? Guillaume De Mauchet Who was an outstanding ars nova composer? His compositions consisted mainly of love songs with instrumental accompaniment? 1 Kyrie 2 Gloria 3 Credo 4 Sanctus 5 Agnus Dei What are the five parts of the Mass Ordinary? 1450-1600 The Renaissance in music occurred between? Flanders Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what was then? Italy The leading music center in sixteenth-century Europe was? Polyphonic The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly? Capella An unaccompanied choral music is called? Melodies, Melody Renaissance ___________________ are usually easy to sing because the ___________________ often moves along a scale with few large leaps. Mass and Motet The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are? Motet This is a polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass. Josquin Desprez Who spent much of his life in Italy? Palestrinas Whose career was centered in rome Council of Trent An attempt was made to purify Catholic Church music as a result of the? Geovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina Whose music includes 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works. 1 Secular tunes 2 Noisy Instruments 3 Theatrical Singing The Council of Trent attacked the church music of the Renaissance because of what 3 things? It is set for 6 voices instead of four. Palestrinas Pope Marcellus Mass sounds fuller than Josquins Ave Maria because? Renaissance Madrigal What began around 1520 in Italy? 1 Play instrument 2 Dance 3 Read Musical Notation During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to be able to do what 3 things? Renaissance Madrigal This is a piece for several solo voice, set set to a short poem about love. English Madrigal Between English and Italian Madrigals which one has a humorous and more lighter tone Word paintings Thomas Weelkess As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its? Lute Songs This was another type of secular music that enjoyed popularity during the Renaissance. Lute was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home. Homophonic Lute songs are what type of texture? John Dowland Who was a leading English Composer of Lute Songs. Subordinate In most lute songs, the lute accompaniment is _________ to the voices? Dancing Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for? Pavane The passamezzo is a stately dance in duple meter similar to the? Lute A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear, popular during the Renaissance, was the? Secular, Sacred Among other causes, ___________________ music became more important than ___________________ music in the fourteenth century because the literature of the time stressed earthly sensuality, rival popes claimed authority at the same time, thereby weakening the authority of the church, and the feudal system had gone into decline. New System of notation, Rhythmic The ars nova or new art differed from older music in that a ______________________________________ permitted composers to specify almost any___________________ Pattern 71 During the Renaissance secular vocal music was written for groups of solo voices and for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment, secular music contained more rapid changes of mood than sacred music and a wealth of dance music published during the sixteenth century has survived. 51 Renaissance music sounds fuller than medieval music because composers considered the harmonic effect of chords rather than superimposing one melody above another, the bass register is used for the first time, and the typical choral piece has four, five, or six voice parts of nearly equal melodic interest.