Renaissance and Middle Ages : Intro to Music Test

Question 1

what song and composer is this?

Accepted Answer

Josquin Desprez: Secular song “El Grillo”

Question 2

what song is this? which composer?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Morley: My Bonny Lass She Smileth

Question 3

The general happenings in the 14th century had schisms in church, a 100yr war, and horrors of black plague.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

The Church recognized the need to respond as it lost membership to the new, “reformed” churches. what is this called?

Accepted Answer

Stop the bleeding.

Question 5

Renaissance: 1450-1600...

Accepted Answer

Magellan’s voyage around the world., Luther begins the Protestant Reformation

Question 6

In 1455: First printed book, the Gutenberg Bible is published.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Guillaume de Machaut

Accepted Answer

Most important work is the “La Mess de Notre Dame” french.

Question 8

The strong language has led to adjusted that have replacements for the offensive words ficcar(baciar) and urtar(ballar)

Accepted Answer

Matona mia cara

Question 9

Madrigal...

Accepted Answer

Usually polyphonic, a Capella, most frequently three to six voices., Secular vocal composition. Popular late Renaissance and early Baroque eras., last 2 decades, virtuoso professional singers began to replace amateurs.

Question 10

which song is this? which composer?

Accepted Answer

Josquin Desprez -Motet “Ave Maria”

Question 11

October 31st, 1517: Little known German monk, Martin Luther, posts 95 theses to church door in Wittenberg.

Accepted Answer

Introduction of chorales (hymns), Reformation

Question 12

which song illustrates the 6 features of Gregorian chant.

Accepted Answer

Victim PaschaliLaudes

Question 13

what song and composer is this?

Accepted Answer

Machaut: La Messe de Notre Dame, Kyrie

Question 14

which fundamental categories of music is associated with religion?

Accepted Answer

Sacred

Question 15

In what year did the renaissance take place?

Accepted Answer

1450-1600

Question 16

what song and composer is this?

Accepted Answer

Giovanni da Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass-Gloria

Question 17

Matona mia cara was Sung by a German soldier who can speak very little Italian.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Palestrina’s Musical Style

Accepted Answer

If a leap occurs it must be small immediately countered by opposite motion, The flow of music is dynamic, not rigid or static., Dissonances are either passing note or off the beat., Melody should contain few leaps between notes.

Question 19

Ars Antiqua was....

Accepted Answer

Brought to its height by Leoninand Perotin@ Notredame., c. 1150-c.1300

Question 20

Organum is...

Accepted Answer

adding a second voice to the chant moving mostly at a parallel interval.

Question 21

what year did the middle ages take place?

Accepted Answer

450-1450

Question 22

which song is this?

Accepted Answer

Adam De La Halle: Secular song from “Jeu de Robin et Marion”

Question 23

Guillaume Dufay...

Accepted Answer

French composer for church music and his secular chanson

Question 24

In what year did the Fall of Roman Empire largely complete.

Accepted Answer

450

Question 25

which composer is this? which song is this?

Accepted Answer

Orlando Di Lasso: “Matona mia cara”

Question 26

1473 First known printed music appears/1504-1505 Leonardo DaVinci’s “Mona Lisa”/1563 Final session of Council of Trent

Accepted Answer

Renaissance, 1450-1600

Question 27

Pope Marchellus Mass

Accepted Answer

Solved the issues raised by the Council of Trent. including drinking, etc., Six-voice counterpoint, Free composed: not based on a cantus firmus

Question 28

14thCentury: Ars Nova....

Accepted Answer

Duple division replaced triple division of beat., More secular than sacred music, Melody tended to center in the top voice of the texture

Question 29

Thomas Morley: c. 1557 –1602

Accepted Answer

was a famous composer in secular music., Active at the same time as Shakespeare.

Question 30

what was the largest single body of music from the middle ages?

Accepted Answer

Gregorian Chant

Question 31

Franco-Flemish composer wrote 2,000 works. Considered 1 of the 2 most influential musicians in Europe end of the 16th.

Accepted Answer

Orlando diLasso (1532-1594)

Question 32

In what year Reign of Pope Gregory the Great who ordained the use of chant?

Accepted Answer

590-604

Question 33

Adam De La Halle was...

Accepted Answer

created the song Le jeude Robin et de Marion, French composer, one of the later trouvères., a poet and composer, who performed music that was part of tradition.

Question 34

Giovanni daPalestrina...

Accepted Answer

Most associated with the counter-reformation, Composed 104 masses, 300+ motets, and more.

Question 35

which song and composer is this?

Accepted Answer

Perotin -“Sederunt Principes”

Question 36

starting with a single line of melody. what musical phrase is this?

Accepted Answer

Monophony

Question 37

who composed this song? what is this song called?

Accepted Answer

Gregorian Chant: Victimae Paschali Laudes

Question 38

Because of stop the bleeding counter reformation was born. Which of the following is true about the counter reformation?

Accepted Answer

Represented by the Council of Trent (1545-1563), addressing bishops and priests, indulgences, and other financial abuses., Considered musical reforms, too: Canon #8 addresses music.

Question 39

A Predominant type of Italian popular, secular song from 1470 to 1530.

Accepted Answer

JosquinDesprez/ Frottola

Question 40

In 1163 what construction began where important composers went to work?

Accepted Answer

Notre Dame Cathedral

Question 41

which song is this? Whos the composer of this song?

Accepted Answer

Guillaume Dufay -Mass, L'homme arme, (Popular tune in Tenor)

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