Music History Final Exam Quiz!

Who is credited with bringing plainchants into the liturgy?

What are the sections of Sonata form called?

How can one best describe polyphonic music in its simplest form?

Who is responsible for coming up with the basis of today’s music notation system?

What was Guillaume du Fay most known for writing?

Who was involved in the divine office?

What does finalis mean?

How would you best describe plainchant melodies?

If you were born in 1714 and died in 1794 which Period of music history would you have lived in

Which Period of music history lasted from 1750 to 1800?

Define ambitus

The entire range of available pitches was known as the ______________ in the Medieval period.

How can one best describe homophonic in its simplest form?

How can one best describe monophonic in its simplest form?

What is a plainchant?

Who was involved with the divine office?

True or False: Opera is sung entirely from beginning to end

Where were trouveres from?

What is a hexachord

What were the two types of Baroque opera?

Where were Troubadours from?

Who won the War of the Buffoons?

What were the solmization syllables in the Medieval Period?

What does Renaissance mean?

What was the sacred counterpart to opera in the Baroque?

True or False: Renaissance music was primarily disjunct?

True or False: The seconda prattica referred to the old style of Renaissance music?

________ is an instrumental line that was subordinate accompaniment to the vocal line above it.

What were the two types of mass in the Medieval Period?

Which Period of music History lasted from 476 to 1400