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Match each term with its definition. Then check your responses with the answer key.
a. a cappella |
1. medieval music consisting of Gregorian chant and one or more additional lines |
| b. chant | 2. wandering minstrels of the Middle Ages |
| c. church modes | 3. poet-musicians of the French nobility |
| d. jongleurs | 4. musical representation of specific poetic images |
| e. lute | 5. plucked string instrument with a body shaped like a pear |
| f. mass ordinary | 6. family of bowed string instruments |
| g.mass proper | 7. unaccompanied choral singing |
| h. motet | 8. scales consisting of seven different tones, whose patterns are different from the major and minor scales |
| i. organum | 9. melody sung without accompaniment |
| j. ricercar | 10. text portions of the Roman Catholic Mass that remain the same each day |
| k. trouveres | 11. text portions of the Roman Catholic Mass that change from day to day |
| l. viol | 12. polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text |
| m. word painting | 13. polyphonic instrumental composition employing imitation |
Matching: Match each composition with its composer.
| a. josquin Desprez | 14. Notre Dame Mass |
| b. Andrea Gabrieli | 15. Pope Marcellus Mass |
| c. Guillaume de Machaut | 16. As Vesta Was Descending |
| d. G. P. da Palestrina | 17. Ave Maria ... virgo serena |
| e. Thomas Weelkes | 18. Ricercar in the Twelfth Mode |
Multiple-choice: Choose the answer that best completes each item. Then
check the answer key.
19. The intellectual movement called humanism
a. condemned any remnant of pagan antiquity
b. focused on human life and its accomplishments
c. treated the madonna as a childlike earthly creature
d. focused on the afterlife in heaven and hell 19.
20. Which of the following is not a part of the Renaissance mass?
a. Ave Maria
b. Gloria
c. Kyrie
d. Credo
21. An outstanding composer of the ars nova was
a. Perotin
b. Guillaume de Machaut
c. Leonin
d. Pope Gregory I
22. The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed
a. during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
b. during the ninth century
c. from 590 to 604
d. during the fifteenth century
23. Which of the following is not true of Gregorian chant?
a. It conveys a calm, otherworldly quality.
b. Its rhythm is flexible, without meter.
c. The melodies tend to move stepwise within a narrow range of pitches.
d. It is usually polyphonic in texture.
24. One of the major characteristics of ars nova music is its use of
a. syncopation
b. organum
c. Gregorian chant
d. monophonic texture
25. An outstanding composer of the Notre Dame school was
a. Perotin
b. Guillaume de Machaut
c. Hildegard of Bingen
d. Pope Gregory 1
1-i; 2-d; 3-k; 4-m; 5-e; 6-l; 7-a; 8-c; 9-b; 10-f; 11-g; 12-h; 13-j; 14-c; 15-d; 16-e; 17-a; 18-b; 19-b; 20-a; 21-b; 22-a; 23-d; 24-a; 25-a.