Music History 121 Chapter 2 and 3 review

Question 1

This composer wrote large quantities of organa for the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, 12thc?

Accepted Answer

Leonin

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT a typical notational convention for Ars Subtilior works?

Accepted Answer

Music printed on materials other than paper

Question 3

In this style of polyphony, an additional voice runs parallel to an established melody:

Accepted Answer

Parallel Organum

Question 4

14th c. music centered around this story about a donkey whose marriage will destroy France:

Accepted Answer

Le Roman de Fauvel

Question 5

In the 13th and 14th c., a popular compositional style in England was the:

Accepted Answer

Circular Canon

Question 6

Brief polyphonic sections of discant organum that could be substituted into an existing work:

Accepted Answer

Clausula

Question 7

This work is possibly the only complete polyphonic cycle of the Mass Ordinary from the 14th c.:

Accepted Answer

Messe de Nostre Dame

Question 8

Music in the 14th c. was centered around a new era. What was this era called?

Accepted Answer

Ars Nova

Question 9

End of Medieval Period, this style emerged involving a fascination with musical puzzles:

Accepted Answer

Ars Subtilior

Question 10

The original plainchant melody is called the:

Accepted Answer

Vox Principalis

Question 11

Notated dance music of the Medieval era is characterized by short repeated sections called:

Accepted Answer

Puncta

Question 12

Italian music from the 14th c. is called:

Accepted Answer

Trecento

Question 13

This 20th c. term describes a technique where a fixed rhythmic and melodic pattern is repeated:

Accepted Answer

Isorhythm

Question 14

The previous composer wrote in these two polyphonic styles:

Accepted Answer

Melismatic and Measured

Question 15

Which type of organum allowed for a much wider use of dissonance between the voices?

Accepted Answer

Melismatic Organum

Question 16

Around 1280, this French composer and theorist created Petronian Notation:

Accepted Answer

Pierre de la Croix

Question 17

12 and 13 c. Composers tried underlaying new text to duplum of existing clausula creating this:

Accepted Answer

Motet

Question 18

This writer created a new, more precise notational system in the middle of the 13th century:

Accepted Answer

Franco of Cologne

Question 19

The additional voice that is added above the original plainchant is called the:

Accepted Answer

Vox Organalis

Question 20

Who was the younger contemporary of the previous composer - who added a triplum and quadruplum?

Accepted Answer

Perotin

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT one of the three secular vocal genres found in 14th c. Italy?

Accepted Answer

Conductus

Question 22

Which of the following is not one of the main note values in Franconian Notation?

Accepted Answer

Minim

Question 23

Works for 1, 2, 3, and 4 voices from freely composed poems and in metered verse:

Accepted Answer

Conductus

Question 24

Polyphony emerged from which two centuries?

Accepted Answer

8th and 9th

Question 25

Where was the original placement of the added voice in comparison to the original plainchant?

Accepted Answer

Above

Question 26

The basic unit of measurement in Franconian Notation was the:

Accepted Answer

Tempus

Music History 121 Chapter 2 and 3 review

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Music History 121 Chapter 2 and 3 review

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