The Middle Ages and Renaissance

Question 1

Which does not characterize Renaissance secular music making?

Accepted Answer

Women were discouraged from performing music in the home.

Question 2

The Renaissance motet is a sacred genre with a single Latin text.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Which characterizes humanism?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 4

Which of the following was a religious leader and prominent figure in literature and music?

Accepted Answer

Hildegard of Bingen

Question 5

During the 14th Century, a style of music developed that became known as:

Accepted Answer

the Ars Nova.

Question 6

Which was NOT a recommendation of the Council of Trent?

Accepted Answer

using more musical instruments to enhance church music

Question 7

Polyphony required the development of:

Accepted Answer

music notation

Question 8

Early instrumental music largely depended on improvisation.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

The expressive device Renaissance composers used to pictorialize words musically is

Accepted Answer

word-painting

Question 10

Troubadours/trouvères were medieval musicians often living on the fringes of society.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

Medieval instruments can be classified as bas or haut, meaning:

Accepted Answer

soft or loud

Question 12

Which of the following was a lively circle or line dance, often performed outdoors?

Accepted Answer

ronde

Question 13

Notre Dame polyphony, with tenor based on preexisting chant melody, free moving upper voices is

Accepted Answer

organum

Question 14

Which composer responded to the reforms of the Council of Trent in an exemplary fashion?

Accepted Answer

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Question 15

In the early Middle Ages, music was often composed in fixed patterns of long/short notes called

Accepted Answer

rhythmic modes

Question 16

Words such as weeping, trembling, and dying were treated with great expression.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Which of the following does NOT characterize plainchant?

Accepted Answer

triadic melodies

Question 18

Which of the following are the movements of the Ordinary of the Mass?

Accepted Answer

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

Question 19

Why does Renaissance music sound different from medieval music?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 20

Josquin's Ave Maria...virgo serena is an example of the:

Accepted Answer

motet

Question 21

The Roman Catholic church service that symbolically reenacts the sacrifice of Christ is:

Accepted Answer

the Mass

Question 22

Who is credited with compiling the Great Book of Organum (Magnus liber organi)?

Accepted Answer

Léonin

Question 23

Knowledge of early civilizations and Middle Age culture was preserved largely in monasteries.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

Which of the following was the most important secular genre of the 16th century?

Accepted Answer

the madrigal

Question 25

Which was not a subject reflected in the poems of the troubadours and trouvères?

Accepted Answer

the rebirth of Classical learning

Question 26

The order of church services and the structure of each service is known as liturgy.

Accepted Answer

True

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