Unit 2 Test 3 BDF

Gregorian chant is sung in

Madrigals are serious and solemn in style. They are used for worship.

Muse

This melodic style of singing primarily uses one pitch per syllabe of text.

In ancient Greece, music and gymanstics were considered the two necessary disciplines of the mind and body.

Secular music written by the musical amateurs of society.

The circled section of the musical excerpt on the board best represents a

Homophonic

Improvise

Which of the following characteristics do motets and madrigals have in common?

Monophonic

Hymns are designed around a simple melody, allowing for all to participate.

Strophic

Repetitive

Chant must be written in polyphonic texture.

Troubadours sang sacred songs about religion, traveling from church to church.

This was the favorite instrument of the troubadours.

Sacred music designed around a very simplistic melody, often strophic or repetitive, that everybody could sing

Pythagoras staed that music and mathematics were inseperable.

Call and response

Through-composed

Doctrine of Ethos

The approximate timeline of the musical Renaissance period:

The musical excerpt shown on the board represents ___ style chant.

The common language of the people. One of the characteristics of forms such as the madrigal and troubadour song.

Secular, polyphonic choral composition sung in the vernacular. Often uses word painting.

Polyphonic

Prior to notation, chant was passed on via oral tradition.

The musical excerpt shown on the board best represents ____ style chant.

Chant is named in honor of Pope Gregory I.

This melodic style of singing frequently uses 10-20 or more pitches per syllable of text.

Term meaning unaccompanied voices.

Madrigals were written by and for the musical elite of society.

Sacred, poyphonic choral composition sung in Latin.

Neumes are curved lines placed above text to indicate melodic direction.