Music Appreciation Pt. 2 & P3

Roman Catholic church texts that remain the same from day to day throughout most of the year: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei

Scales containing seven tones with an eighth tone duplicating the first an octave higher, but with patterns of whole and half steps different from major and minor scales; used in medieval, Renaissance, and twentieth-century music and in folk music

Long, sustained tone or tones accompanying a melody

A chant used as the basis of a polyphonic composition is known as

A term used by musical theorists to describe the profound stylistic changes of Italian and French music in the fourteenth century

Gregorian chant is a

Church modes are

Hildegard of Bingen

Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who

The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages

The notation of the secular songs of the Middle Ages does not indicate

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

Most of the French secular songs of the Middle Ages dealt with

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

The center of polyphonic music or Ars of Nova in Europe after 1150 was

Leonin and Perotin are notable because they

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

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

The ars nova, or new art, of the fourteenth century differed from older music in that

The foremost composer of fourteenth-century France was

More strophic, more repetative, & Francesco Landini's Eco la primavera (Spring has come) is in the poetic and musical form of a

Secular music in the fourteenth century

The Notre Dame Mass by Guillaume de Machaut was

Which of the following is not a part of the mass ordinary: Ave Maria, Gloria, Kyrie, or Credo

Each section in the Kyrie repeats

Kyrie is in what language

The five ordinaries are:

Organum has two parts:

Notes move same position at the same time

Upper note moves up a step and the lower note moves down a step; opposites

The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly

The dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance, focusing on human life and its accomplishments was called

without instrumental accompaniment/unaccompanied choral music

The musical representation of specific poetic images-for example, a falling melodic line to accompany the word, descending-often found in Renaissance and baroqye music, was known as

Renaissance melodies are usually easy to sing because

The reason Renaissance music sounds fuller than Medieval music is because

True or False? Josquin spent most of his life in the province of Hainaut, today part of Belgium

Palestrina's career centered in

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

Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass sounds fuller than Josquin's Ave Maria because

Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of

The Renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in

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

The leading English composer of lute songs was

Thomas Weelkes's, As Vesta was Descending, is notable for its

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

The madrigal anthology, The Triumphes of Oriana, was written in honor of

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

The ____ is a stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavanne

During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to

The focal point of music in Venice was

A polychoral motet is a

Unlike most Renaissance choral music, Venetian choral music of the late sixteenth century often

True or False? In the sixteenth century, Venice was part of the Papal states on the northeastern coast of Italy.

St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice was noted for its

Giovanni Gabrieli's Plaudite

Term used to describe the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Europe, a period of geographic exploration and adventure as well as intellectual curiosity and individualism.

Composers of sixteenth-and early seventeenth-century Venice who-inspired by the two widely separated choir lofts of St. Mark's Cathedral-often wrote music for several choruses and groups of instruments.

A lot of syllables for notes

The ____ began to create symbols for notes, began to use the alphabet system, and created lines for accuracy

Major/Minor scale, Greek origin, ex: dorian, & lydian

This type of music is more for entertaining. Popular genres: dance, love, stories of the crusades, and spinning songs

These people were on the lowest social scale, street musicians, and acted like a newspaper; went to town to town telling stories by singing

Type of dance music, unknown to who wrote it

This instrument looks like a giant spoon, 3 strings across, and uses the bow upside down

This instrument has strings across, played with fingers or wooden hammers, and popular in eastern Europe

Sacred music, not part of the mass, and a polyphonic choral work set to a scared Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass

Three lines of music, bottom line contains the cantus firmus, and there is a slow moving line at the bottom and faster lines above; chant is at the bottom line as well

This composer was blind, played the organ, and was known for ballata music

In Christmas carols, the reference was in ___ and was repeated. Then the verse was _____

How are motets organized?

Imitated pairs are followed by

Song piece by Tallis and contains 40 voices

The most important, best, influential composer who wrote sacred and secular music, had an international career, served duke's private chapels and in the papal choir at Rome, and influenced Martin Luther. Four voice motet: Ave Maria

This composer devoted himself to music for the Catholic church, including that of music director for St. Peter's. His work is best understood against the background of the Counter-Reformation. His most famous mass is the Pope Marcellus Mass

An important kind of secular vocal music during the Renaissance was the ____, a piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love. Combines homophonic & polyphonic textures, uses word painting, and unusual harmonies more often

One of the first madrigalists, an organist, and church composer. Known for As Vesta Was Descending

The leading English composer of lute songs, a virtuoso performer on the lute famous through out Europe, and his popular piece was Flow My Tears

Court dances were often performed in pairs, favorite pair was stately ___ or ____, in duple meter, and the lively ___, in triple meter

a double-reed ancestor of the oboe

an early flute

wooden instruments with cup-shaped mouth piece

early trombones

bowed string instrument s

small organs with reed pipes

A collection of of over 300 dance tunes arranged for instrumental ensemble by Michael Praetorius

The focal point for music in Venice was

The music directors and organists at St. Mark's such as Adrian Willaret, Andrea Gabrieli, amd Giovanni Gabrieli were among the finest composers of the Renaissance. They and their colleagues are called

This type of choral music contained parts written exclusively for instruments, close to an early baroque style, and had a tendency toward homphonic texture, rather than polyphonic texture

From Venice, was the most important Venetian composer of the late Renaissance and was an organist. His compositions included the organ and instrumental ensemble works and polychoral motets. Known for specifying dynamics and instrumentation in his pieces

Motets for two or more choirs, often including groups of instruments

This composer was part of the late Renaissance, most famous and influential musician in Europe at the end of the 16th century. He wrote over 2,000 works in all Latin, French, Italian, and German

Was the most famous composer of the Franco-Flemish School in the last half of the 15th century. He was also an honored singer, choirmaster, and teacher.

The most famous composer of masses in Europe in the late 15th century. Wrote mainly sacred music

This composers style encompassed the simple Reformation service music. One of the first composers to provide settings of the English liturgy & did keyboard music

Was the first composer to be a Renaissance, first to start writing for four voices, and did both sacred and secular music

First music publisher in the world and wrote most ceremonial music

Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. Wrote large amount of music including sacred and secular vocal music, music for mixed groups of voices and instruments.

Madrigal came in

Developed in France, tells a longer story

Developed in Italy, was like a pre-opera, and had more emotion

Developed chromatisism which made 12 notes in a scale instead of the 8 notes

The Renaissance time period:

Majority of instrumental music was for:

Which is part of the proper: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, or Gradual?

Ars Nova period where instrumental was

The most important factor factor to most monophonic chant was

These poeple who developed the rhythmic notation and part of the Ars Nova

Polyphonic imitation, instrumental was

Which is not a characteristic of a ballata?

Unlike most venical music in the 16th century, choral music