Chapter 2-3 test NES

What happened sometimes between 700 and 900 that led to the development of polyphony in western music?

Modern historians use the term baroque to indicate what?

What is a cantus firmus

Baroque style flourished in music during which period?

The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning ____

The first oratorios were based on what source material?

Who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians, and controls the balance among instruments and voices?

Gregorian chant is ___ in texture

Who held a virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages

Today, what singing type performs a castrato part in baroque opera?

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in what form?

Why did the council of Trent attack the church music of the renaissance?

The two giants of baroque composition were Handel and ____

What feature of baroque music uses successive repetitions of a musical idea at higher or lower pitches?

what statement about medieval music is NOT true

Handel’s Messiah is an example of what genre?

Sets of dance inspired instrumental movements are called

Which historical composer was a visionary and mystic who also held duties as the abbess of the convent at rupertsberg?

Baroque melodies often feature what characteristic?

Bach created masterpieces in every genre EXCEPT

During the Middle Ages, what institution was the center of musical life?

How can the position of the composer during the baroque period be described?

The ____ was the most popular instrument in the renaissance home

The basic scales of western music during the Middle Ages were called church ____

A large scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text is ___

What is the renaissance madrigal?

The large group of players in a concertó grosso is known as the

When the subject of a fugue is presented in the dominant scale it is called what

What innovation of the school of notre dame can be seen in the music manuscripts of Leonin and Perotin?

What is a common feature of baroque instrumental music?

Members of the camerata wanted to create a new vocal style based on what source

What is a song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment called?

What is the text or book of a musical dramatic work called

Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no____

to what does a cappella refer?

Hansel’s oratorios are usually based on what subject

The two main forms of sacred renaissance music are the mass and the ____

What is the renaissance motet?

An ____ is a play set to music sung to orchestral accompaniment with scenery costumes and action

What aspect of palestrina’s music was prized by advocates in the counter-reformation movement?

What was a focus of the intellectual movement called humanism

What musical form refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech?

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the _____

Who composed dido And aeneas which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English text

To what does terraced dynamics refer

Much of the instrumental music composed during the renaissance was intended for what purposes

What description is NOT true or Gregorian chant

Where was the leading music center in 16th century Europe

Affections in baroque usage refers to what?

What is the Name for the movement which the Catholic Church sought to correct abuse & malpractices within its structure

The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was _____

Handel is associated with which period

Who was a famous French troubairitz

A ___ is a musical number for two solo voices with orchestral accompaniment

What is a primary feature of baroque music?

What group of medieval musicians lived on the lowest level of society performing music, acrobatics, stories, and dances

Who was NOT a major baroque composer

The early baroque period spanned what years

In the Middle Ages, who were the most important musicians?

The main theme of a fugue is called what

One of the major characteristics of arts nova music is its use of what feature?

Lute songs are mostly _____ in texture

The late baroque period spanned what years?

Who was a leading English composer of lute song

Between what approximate dates did the renaissance music occur?

During the baroque period, ____ were not allowed to be employed as music directors

What type of music is Barbara strozzi best known for?

Why are renaissance melodies usually easy to sing

A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear popular during the renaissance

The ____ is a Lutheran congregational hymn tune

The terms ars nova refers to what?

The ars nova style differed from older music in what way?

Many early baroque operas were based on what subject

To what does the word movement in music normally refer?

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____ of his day

Vivaldi was famous and influential as a virtuoso ___