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1
Music of the Trecento had a distinct character
True
False
2
What technique does Vitry use in the upper voices?
Ars Nova
Hiccup
Perfect Rhythm
Hocket
3
The galliard had the same form and melody but slower.
True
False
4
What was the council of Trent
Bunch of old dudes who wanted things back the way they were.
Musical enthusiasts.
People who thought worship was worship.
A council that met to create new polyphonic methods.
5
Virginal and Clavecin were both types of harpsichord.
True
False
6
What was notation originally used for?
Secular music of the aristocracy
Church music
All of the above
A & B
Courts
7
Motets meaning shifted to any work with a texted voice below the cantus firmus.
True
False
8
Musique Mesuree wanted to revisit the same rhythm as French poetry.
False
True
9
What is the order of these forms?
Virelai, Ballade, Rondeau
Ballade, Rondeau, Virelai
Rondeau, Ballade, Virelai
Ballade, Virelai, Rondeau
10
What happened in the 14th century?
Economic boom
The church gained power
Economic decline
Famine, war, and plague
11
Villanella is a lively strophic piece for three voices.
True
False
12
Who was the first Spanish playwright and a leading composer of villancicos?
Johannes Tinctoris (1436-1511)
Gioseffo Zarlino (1517-1590)
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Juan del Encina (1468-1529)
13
Desprez (1450-1521) held great prestige as a musician and had a lot of influence on music history.
True
False
14
The ritornello used the same meter and music as the madrigal that precedes it
False
True
15
Color is a recurring segment of harmony.
True
False
16
A talea is a recurring rhythmic unit.
False
True
17
Cantilenas were freely composed.
False
True
18
A motto mass uses a different melodic motive at the start of each movement.
True
False
19
Petrucci made the first polyphonic collection of music on Gutenberg's printing press.
False
True
20
Palestrina was the savior of secular music.
False
True
21
Which tuning system had small 5ths to create pure sounding major thirds
equal temperament.
Pythagorean intonation
Just intonation
mean-tone temperment.
22
Canon is taking 2+ voices from one written part.
False
True
23
What shape did Cordier make his piece "Belle, Bonne, Sage" in
Triangle
Heart
Square
Circle
24
The pavane was a stately dance with the AABBCC form.
True
False
25
Polychoral Motets were for two or more choirs with 1 to 4 singers per part.
False
True
26
Machaut was the most important composer of the French Ars Nova
True
False
27
Roman de Fauvel captured the flavor of the time depicting corruption in the church. What was it?
Painting
Sculpture
Poem
Song
28
In ars nova, 3rds and 6ths were...
Major
Minor
dissonant
Imperfect connsonants
29
What is musical ficta
Cued notes for other instruments.
False music where the performer adds accidentals based on tradition.
Overtones that sound even though no voice has them.
A method of changing the sound of an organ by a stop in the pipes.
30
What was the Concerto Delle Donne
Women's ensemble from France
Women's ensemble inspired by the Medici of Florence.
Women's ensemble from Ferrara
Women's ensemble from Germany
31
What is the 14th Century Madrigal?
A song for one singer
A song for 2 or 3 voices
A song where each part has a different text
A song with instrumental accompaniment
32
Pope Marcellus Mass made Council rethink Polyphonic music.
True
False
33
Gabrielli (1555-1612) was the leading composer of late Ren. early Baroque period and mainly worked for St. Mark's.
False
True
34
Temperments were used to make most or all pitches usable without adding keys.
True
False
35
Ostinati are short repeated bass lines.
False
True
36
In the 14th century, people stopped separating science and religion.
True
False
37
What is an isorhythm
Only one rhythm at a time.
Repetition in a voice part, usually tenor voice.
Only one rhythm in a song.
38
Canzona was another less popular type of contrapuntal instrumental music
True
False
39
Why was La Masse De Nostre Dame important
One of the earliest polyphonic settings of the mass ordinary.
Machaut's first polyphonic piece.
Machaut's first motet.
Conformed to guidelines of Council of Trent.
40
What is contenance angloise?
English quality
A type of music that does not use harmonic thirds or sixths.
An English madrigal method
A method of counting English music
41
Ricercare was a type of prelude that evolved into a motet like succession of imitative sections
False
True
42
Tocatta means touch in Italian
True
False
43
What is a virelais?
Spanish 14th century work.
Piece that includes a refrain.
German polyphonic work.
One of the formes fixes
44
Du Fay (1397-1474) was the most famous composer of his time and was associated with the Burgundian Court.
False
True
45
Plainsong mass used borrowed melodies for liturgical works and each were related musically
False
True
46
A mensuration canon is when parts apply different mensuration signs to two of the same part creating different meters.
False
True
47
Cantus Firmus Mass linked movements together by using the same cantus firmus.
True
False
48
Intabulation was an instrumental transcription of a vocal work.
False
True
49
Music printing was developed in what year?
1500
1501
1531
1551
50
The villancico always includes ____
A & B
a balletto
A & D
fauxbourdon
one or more coplas
estribillo
51
Le Istitutioni harmoniche (The Harmonic Foundations) written by Zarlino was about expressing emotions in music.
False
True
52
Who wrote
Liber de arte contrapuncti
(A book on the Art of Counterpoint, 1477)
Jean Cordier
Pamela Starr
Johannes Tinctoris
Guillaume Du Fay
53
All parts of the fauxbourdon were written out to prevent improvised polyphony.
False
True
54
Chapel and chamber were interchangeable terms for musicians of the Renaissance.
False
True
55
How were musicians trained in the Renaissance
Apprentice programs.
All instrumentalists learned to play by ear.
Trained in monasteries as monks
Large conservatories in big cities.
56
Landini was the most important composer of Ballate and musician of the trecento. How did his famous cadence work?
The tenor descends by step
The upper voice descends by step
The upper voice descends to the lower neighbor then leaps up a third
The tenor descends to the lower neighbor then leaps up a third
57
Haut is French for high voiced instruments
True
False
58
Divisions of the Long, Breve, and Semibreve were considered perfect in Ars Antiqua when...
Could be divided into three
Could be divided into two
Could be divided into four
They were evenly divided
59
Each semitone being the same is known as equal temperament which is still common today.
False
True
60
What was the Trecento
The French Mornarchy
Italian for the fourteenth century
A collection of Italian City states.
61
What was the Petrarchan Movement
Revisiting of early humanistic ideas.
A revisiting of Greek ideas.
Revitalization of Petrarca's work.
62
What is Ars Subtilor?
Written about by Ursula Gunther.
A way to bridge the gap between Ars Nova and Antiqua.
A style with very few innovations and no complex rhythms
A more subtle art.
63
The caccia is the Italian equivalent of the French chase where a popular style melody is in strict canon
False
True
64
The sonata is Italian for sounded and consisted of a series of sections on different subjects.
True
False
65
Byrd (1540-1623) was the most important composer over both Dunstable and Purcell
False
True
66
Who invented Ars Nova (New Art)
Jacobus de Ispania (1260-after 1330)
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
Phillipe de Vitry (1291-1361)
Jehans de Murs (1290-1344)
67
Contrafactum is replacing the old words of a song with new ones.
True
False
68
Which is not an innovation that changed the culture of the time.
Eyeglasses
Valved Instruments
Mechanical clock
Magnetic compass
69
What is a chanson
A monophonic French piece.
Treble dominated style.
First pieces to use a bass voice.
Fast moving tenor piece.
70
Metrical songs created new musical ideas to songs in their original Hebraic language
False
True
71
Canzonetta and balletto mean little song and little dance.
False
True
72
Through composed means ________ _______ for every line of poetry
the same
Imitative themes
Borrowed music
new music
73
In 16th Century, ability to read notation and perform from printed music was expected social grace of urban upper-class
True
False, it was the middle-class
74
Luther and Calvin wanted the congregation to be a part of worship.
False
True
75
Just intonation was the term for perfectly tuned fourths and fifths in the middle ages.
True
False
76
What was the polyphony of the time like?
Focused completely on pleasure
Interplay between structure and pleasure.
Simple.
Completely based on rules
77
The most important form of secular polyphonic song in Renaissance Spain
Frottola
Madrigal
Villancico
78
Scandals and conflicts ravaged the church.
True
False
79
All of these are true about faburden except
Lower voice sings a parrallel octaves below through
Improvised polyphony.
Middle voice a P4 above it.
Used plainchant in the middle voices.
80
Madrigal was the most important secular genre of 16th C Italy and arguably most important of whole Renaissance.
True
False
81
Heinrich Glarenus built off of Tinctoris' work and added four new modes in his book Dodecachordon (12 stringed lyre)
False
True
82
Which is true
25 of Machaut's virelais are monophonic.
One of the most attractive virelais Machaut wrote was Douce Dame Jolie.
8 of Machauts virelais are polyphonic.
Machaut treated virelais like danced songs.
83
In Pythagorean intonation, fourths and fifths were perfectly tuned.
True
False
84
What are the significant national genres of the 16th century?
Italian frottola
New French chanson
All of these
Spanish villancico
85
How many Motets did Machaut write? (All early in his career)
14
41
26
23
86
Jean Cordier (1430s-1501) was one of the most sought after musicians of the 1400s.
False
True
87
Byrd was protected by Queen Elizabeth for his religious beliefs.
True
False
88
Dunstable (1390-1453) was most highly regarded English composer of 1400s.
True
False
89
Binchois (1400-1460) was at the center of the Burgundian Court's musical life.
True
False
90
These ar all true of Ockeghem except
Wrote 13 masses, Requiem Mass, 5+ motets and 21 chansons.
His contributions were small for a composer with his renown.
He lived 1399-1476
He was a singer, composer, and teacher.
91
what is this instrument
crumhorn
Lute
sackbut
Recorder
92
Who opposed Ars Nova
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
Jacobus de Ispania (1260-after 1330)
Phillipe de Vitry (1291-1361)
Jehans de Murs (1290-1344)
93
This is an example of a common dance pair of a...
Golliard and Pavane
Pavane and Basse Danse
Pavane and Golliard
Basse Danse and Golliard
