Music History 1: Test 2

This is an example of what type of notation?

All of these are true the early motet except ______.

An existing melody, often plainchant, on which a new polyphonic work is based.

Ballade

Virelai

This composer inaugurated the style now known as the Ars Nova.

Medieval tuning system

Rondeau

“Trecento” refers to music of the 1300s in

This is an example of what type of notation?

This is an example of what type of notation?

Which of these note values was new to the Ars Nova?

Literally “hiccup” - a technique in which two voices alternate in rapid succession

This is an example of what type of notation?

Many aspects of European culture in the fifteenth and sixteenth century were influenced by

Chromatic alterations left to performers discretion

Which phrase best describes humanism?

The Roman de Fauvel is an allegory about