Music of the Renaissance Review!

Question 1

Which of the following does not describe Palestrina's style?

Accepted Answer

Went against Zarlino's rules of counterpoint

Question 2

What Renaissance philosophy emphasized the study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry & history?

Accepted Answer

humanism

Question 3

The texts of what part of the Roman Catholic Mass were set in Renaissance mass cycles?

Accepted Answer

Ordinary

Question 4

Which of the following does not describe the Protestant Reformation?

Accepted Answer

The Protestant Reformation never spread outside of Germany

Question 5

In a cantus firmus mass, a pre-existing melody is used in what voice?

Accepted Answer

Tenor

Question 6

How were the movements of a Renaissance mass cycle linked?

Accepted Answer

D. A, B & C

Question 7

How did the Protestant Reformation influence music?

Accepted Answer

Creation of genres for congregational singing

Question 8

Which of the following terms or people is not associated with the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Oratorio

Question 9

What composer held positions in France & Italy and represented a 15th-c international style?

Accepted Answer

Guillaume Du Fay

Question 10

In the Renaissance 4-voice mass texture, what voice is relatively low to the tenor?

Accepted Answer

Contratenor bassus

Question 11

Music theorists in the Renaissance described new modes ending on

Accepted Answer

A and C

Question 12

How is an imitation mass different from a paraphrase mass?

Accepted Answer

Paraphrase mass is based on a pre-existing monophonic genre.

Question 13

Who was the Pope's composer in the 16th c and represented a papal a cappella style?

Accepted Answer

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Question 14

Lutheran chorales did NOT borrow music from

Accepted Answer

Italian opera

Question 15

How did Palestrina's Missa L'homme arme Kyrie DIFFER from that of the same name by Du Fay?

Accepted Answer

There are 5 voices

Question 16

Which of the following does not describe music of the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Nonmetric

Question 17

Which of the following is not a type of cyclic mass?

Accepted Answer

Organal

Questions 17