MUSC 3313 Midterm Review

Question 1

Musica Enchiriadis gave 9th century composers information on how to ?

Accepted Answer

Improvise and compose various types of Organum

Question 2

Medieval music was between what years?

Accepted Answer

500 - 1400 AD

Question 3

The Guidonian Hand devised by Guido d'Arezzo was used to help musicians with?

Accepted Answer

Learning Chant Melodies

Question 4

In modern meter, imperfect major would be?

Accepted Answer

6/8 time

Question 5

The term for the earliest time signatures is?

Accepted Answer

Mensuration Signs

Question 6

The song diagram AbbaA fits most closely?

Accepted Answer

Virelai

Question 7

This genre of music was first created by adding new texts in Latin, French, or both to already existing organum.

Accepted Answer

Motet

Question 8

The most representative composer of question 5 was?

Accepted Answer

Guillaume de Machaut

Question 9

Which group of medieval singer-songwriters was German?

Accepted Answer

Minnesingers

Question 10

What happened to the motet from the 15th century onwards?

Accepted Answer

No more cantus firmus; all parts now original

Question 11

The "courtly love" tradition in Europe was best expressed by

Accepted Answer

Troubadours, Trouveres, Minnesingers, Minstrels

Question 12

The era called "Ars Nova" in music was the ?

Accepted Answer

1400's in France

Question 13

This composer was also a major French poet of the 14th century

Accepted Answer

Guillaume de Machaut

Question 14

Organum can best be defined as?

Accepted Answer

The earliest type of sacred polyphony

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