RCM Theory 8 - Music History Component

Question 1

Music mirrors the meaning of the words through melody, harmony, and rhythm:

Accepted Answer

Word painting

Question 2

"In the chapel"; vocal music without instrumental accompaniment common in the Renaissance:

Accepted Answer

A cappella

Question 3

Pattern of pitches defined by its notes and intervals and basis for extended improvisation:

Accepted Answer

Raga

Question 4

Medieval genre combining drama, music, and symbolic characters to teach lessons and manners

Accepted Answer

Morality play

Question 5

Traditional Javanese ensemble featuring metallophones, gongs, xylophones, drums, and voices

Accepted Answer

Gamelan

Question 6

Strict imitation created through successive entries of a melody in several voices:

Accepted Answer

Rata, Canon

Question 7

A recurring rhythmic or melodic pattern:

Accepted Answer

Ostinato

Question 8

Same rhythmic pattern in all voices creates chordal style and clear, easy-to-follow text:

Accepted Answer

Homorhythmic texture

Question 9

A sacred genre representing the earliest form of notated Western art music:

Accepted Answer

Plainchant

Question 10

Instrument featuring metal bars of different sizes that are struck with a variety of mallets:

Accepted Answer

Metallophone

Question 11

"Clap"; provides rhythmic structure of a composition or performance

Accepted Answer

Tala

Question 12

Plucked instrument with movable frets and strings used for melodies, drones, or percussion

Accepted Answer

Sitar

Question 13

Scales with distinct patterns of whole and half steps used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance:

Accepted Answer

Modes

Question 14

Composer of Ordo Virtutum:

Accepted Answer

Hildegard von Bingen

Question 15

You would most likely find a Javanese gamelan in:

Accepted Answer

Indonesia

Question 16

Composer of El grillo:

Accepted Answer

Josquin des Prez, Ravi Shankar

Question 17

The combination of two or more independent melodic lines, also known as contrapuntal texture:

Accepted Answer

Polyphonic texture

Question 18

A 15th-century Italian secular polyphonic vocal genre based on playful poems and word painting:

Accepted Answer

frottola

Question 19

You would most likely find a sitar player performing in the raga and tala structures in:

Accepted Answer

India

Question 20

A single line of unaccompanied melody:

Accepted Answer

Monophonic texture

Question 21

Repeating rhythmic phrase with 3-100+ rhythmic units often expressed by percussion instruments:

Accepted Answer

Tala

Question 22

Consists of a monophonic modal melody with unmeasured rhythm and Latin text:

Accepted Answer

Plainchant

Question 23

Composer of Sumer Is Icumen In:

Accepted Answer

Anonymous

Question 24

Indian term meaning "color"; provides melodic structure for a composition or performance

Accepted Answer

Raga

RCM Theory 8 - Music History Component

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RCM Theory 8 - Music History Component

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