MUSIC APPRECIATION: The Middle Ages And The Renaissance

Among other causes, why did secular music become more important than sacred music in the fourteenth century?

Why does Renaissance music sound fuller than medieval music?

Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of ______.

A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear, popular during the Renaissance, was the ______.

Terpsichore, a collection of over 300 dance tunes, was arranged for instrumental ensemble by ______.

The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages ______.

The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was ______.

A famous French woman troubadour was ______.

The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed ______.

A virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages was held by _______.

Which of the following statements regarding the Renaissance is not true?

What did Beatriz, Countess of Dia, compose?

The _________ was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home.

The word Alleluia _______.

What is the Renaissance motet?

Guillaume de Machaut was a ______________ as well as a musician.

The notation of troubadour and trouvère melodies does not indicate ______.

The lute song was widely cultivated in England from ______.

An estampie is a medieval ______.

A new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by the ______.

The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly ______.

Pope Gregory the Great _________.

During the Middle Ages, what institution was the center of musical life?

The use of organs in church _______.

The first steps in a revolution that eventually transformed western music began sometime between 700 and 900 with the ______.

Which of the following statements is not true of humanism?

The earliest extant liturgical morality play, Ordo virtutum (Play of the Virtues), was composed by ______.

During the Renaissance, every educated person was expected to ______.

Which of the following statements is not true of the Renaissance?

The leading music center in sixteenth-century Europe was ______.

Which of the following statements is not true?

During the late Middle Ages, the church believed that instrumental music during religious services should be ______.

The church frowned on instruments because of their ______.

Gregorian chant _______.

Which of the following is not a part of the mass ordinary?

What is the passamezzo?

To what does a cappella refer?

The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning ______.

What is the Renaissance madrigal?

Thomas Weelkes's As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its _______.

One of the major characteristics of ars nova music is its use of _______.

Gregorian chant consists of _______.

Which of the following composers is not an important madrigalist?

Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for ______.

Which of the following describes a difference between English and Italian madrigals?

The form of the chant Alleluia: Vidimus stellam is ______.

A(n) _____ can be defined as two simultaneous, repeated notes at the interval of a fifth, played on a psaltery (a plucked or struck string instrument).

Why are Leonin and Perotin notable?

An attempt was made to purify Catholic church music as a result of the ______.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's ______.

The first steps toward the development of polyphony were taken sometime between 700 and 900, when ______.

The term ars nova refers to ______.

Which statement is true about Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass?

Which of the following statements is not true?

The intellectual movement called humanism ______.

Why are Renaissance melodies usually easy to sing?

Bernard of Clairvaux ordered his monks to sing _______.

Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what was then ______.

We know from paintings and literary descriptions of the Middle Ages that _______.

Who was Hildegard of Bingen?

What is the galliard?

Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines is called ______.

The Renaissance in music occurred between ______.

Gregorian chant ________.

Why did the Council of Trent attack the church music of the Renaissance?

Most medieval music was _______.

Lute songs are mostly __________ in texture.

The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were ______.

The expression of ________, as heard in John Dowland's Flow My Tears, was a prominent feature of English literature and music in the time of William Shakespeare.

Guillaume de Machaut's compositions consist mainly of ______.

The development of the English madrigal can be traced to 1588 and considered a result of ______.

In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were _______.

Which of the following statements is not true of Renaissance music?

Church officials expected monks to sing _______.

Palestrina's career centered in ______.

As a young student in Paris, Henri de Malines sang ______.

What we know about instruments in church comes mainly from _______.

Which of the following is not true of Gregorian chant?

How do Gregorian chant melodies tend to move?

The music the medieval monks sang was called _______.

One function of secular music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for ______.

The earliest surviving chant manuscripts date from about the _______ century.

Which of the following is not one of the five sections of the Renaissance mass?

The Renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in ______.

Secular music in the fourteenth century _______.

The movement in which the Catholic church sought to correct abuses and malpractices within its structure is known as ______.

Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who ______.

In the recording of the medieval estampie, the melody is played on a rebec, a ______.

The highlight of the day for monks and nuns was ______.

A leading English composer of lute songs was ______.

The Renaissance may be described as an age of ______.

An outstanding composer of the ars nova was ______.

In most lute songs, the lute accompaniment _______.

John Dowland's Flow My Tears consists of _______ musical sections that are each immediately repeated.

Josquin Desprez spent much of his life in ______.

Why is Gregorian chant seldom heard today?

William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, Prince Jaufre Rudel, Bernart de Ventadorn and Guillaume le Vinier were all famous ______.

The earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm were ______.

Which of the following statements is not true of the medieval estampie?

Church authorities in the Middle Ages ____________________ their religious services.