MUL1010 Section 2 Example For Students

MUL1010 Section 2 The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning_ 450-1000 In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were_ priests A virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages was held by_ monks and monasteries During the Middle Ages, women_ were not permitted to sing in church The church frowned on instruments because of their_ earlier roles in pagan rites The use of organs in the church_ distracted the listeners from worship The music the Medieval monks and nuns sang was call_ Gregorian Chant The two types of services at which monks and nuns sang were_ the office and the mass In the Middle Ages, the organ_ was a prominent church isntrument An important woman composer of the Middle Ages was_ Hildegard of Bingen Most medieval music was_ vocal The view of the later medieval church on music during religious services was that it should be_ used only as a discreet accompaniment Gregorian chant_ All of these Gregorian chant is_ monophonic in texture Gregorian chant consists of_ melody sung without accompaniment Which of the following is not true of Gregorian chant? It is usually polyphonic in texture Pope Gregory the Great_ reorganized the liturgy of the Catholic church during his reign from 590-604 The earliest surviving chant manuscripts date from about the__century ninth The church modes were_ the basic scales of western music during the Middle Ages Alleluia__ -may be translated as praise ye the Lord -is Latinized form of the Hebrew hallelujah -is often used in Gregorian chants *all of these are correct* Hildegard of Bingen was_ -the first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived -abbess the convent at Rupertsberg -a visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs *all of these are correct* The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed__ during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by French nobles called troubadours and troveres One function of secular music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for__ dancing The French secular music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for_ dancing A famous French woman troubadour was__ Beatriz de Dia The notation of the secular songs of the Middle Ages does not indicate__ rhythm The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were_ ranked at the lowest social level An estampie is a medieval dance Which of the following statements is not true of the medieval estampie? It was intended for religious services The first steps toward the development of polyphony were taken sometime between 700 and 900, when__ monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line the Gregorian chant ___is a term applied to medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one more additional melodic lines Organum The earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm were__ Leonin and Perotin The terms ars nova refers to__ French and Italian music of the fourteenth century One of the major characteristic of ars nova music is its use of__ syncopation The foremost composer of fourteenth-century France was__ Guillaume de Machaut The Notre Dame Mass by Guillaume de Machaut was__ -written for three voices without instrumental accompaniment -is the only mass from the middle ages to incorporate the entire proper of the mass into one work -the first polyphonic treatment of the mass ordinary by a known composer *all of these are correct* Cantus firmus is the term used for__ a chant that is used as the basis of polyphony The Renaissance in music occurred between_ 1450-1600 The dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was called__ humanism Which of the following statements is not true of the intellectual movement of the Renaissance known as humanism? The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs Many prominent renaissance composers, who held important posts all over the continent, came from an area of Europe known at that time as__ Flanders Which of the following statements is not true of Renaissance music? Instrumental music became more important than vocal music during the Renaissance Renaissance music sounds fuller than medieval music because___ -composers considered the harmonic effect of chords rather than superimposing one melody above another -the bass register is used for the first time -the typical choral piece has four, five, or six vocal parts of nearly equal melodic interest *all of these are correct* The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly__ polyphonic A cappella refers to__ unaccompanied choral music Renaissance melodies are usually easy to sing because__ the melody usually moves along a scale with few large steps The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music and the mass are the__ motet The Renaissance motet is a__ polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of__ Christopher Columbus Palestrinas career centered in__ Rome Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrinas__ music includes 104 masses and some 450 other works An attempt was made to purify Catholic Church music as a result of the__ deliberations of the Council of Trent During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to__ -read musical notation -play a musical instrument -be skilled in dance *all of these are correct* The Renaissance madrigal is a__ piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love The madrigal anthology The Triumphes of Oriana was written in honor of__ Queen Elizabeth I Thomas Weelkess As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its__ word painting Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for__ dancing A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear, popular during the Renaissance, was the__ lute The passamezzo is a__ stately dance in duple meter Among the most important Italian Renaissance composers was__ Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina