Fine Arts 1

Question 1

What is prohibited in counterpoint?

Accepted Answer

Parallel Voices

Question 2

Johannes de Grocheo believe that motets should not be celebrated by what people because they would not appreciate it?

Accepted Answer

Common People

Question 3

Which German composer used chorale melodies as cantus firmus?

Accepted Answer

Bach

Question 4

In which species of counterpoint is it important that no one species dominates the composition?

Accepted Answer

Fifth Species

Question 5

1. What is the translation for the phrase cantus firmus?

Accepted Answer

Fixed Melody

Question 6

In what century did composers start experimenting with cantus firmus in different voice parts?

Accepted Answer

15th

Question 7

What musical term relates to “a harsh or unpleasant sound”?

Accepted Answer

Dissonance

Question 8

Guerino Mazzola’s work in 1947 gave what to counterpoint theory?

Accepted Answer

Mathematical foundation

Question 9

What term is used synonymously with species counterpoint?

Accepted Answer

Strict counterpoint

Question 10

Which type of counterpoint involves the repetition of a main melodic idea?

Accepted Answer

Imitative

Question 11

It is argued that motet could include certain what?

Accepted Answer

Brief single voice-songs

Question 12

In which species of counterpoint does each note in every added part sound against one note in the cantus firmus?

Accepted Answer

First species

Question 13

In Western classical music, a motet is mainly what?

Accepted Answer

A vocal composition

Question 14

In what city was this set of secular cantus firmus created?

Accepted Answer

Naples

Question 15

Cantus firmus is usually sung by who?

Accepted Answer

the lowest voice

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