Music Part 2:The Middle Ages And The Renaissance

22 August 2022
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The majority of vocal music during Middle Ages, were written in this type of texture.
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monophonic
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The basic scales used in western music during the medieval and renaissance periods were called.....
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modes(church modes)
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Most medieval music was A. instrumental. B. vocal.
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B. vocal.
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During the Middle Ages, which institution was the center of musical life?
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The church
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What was an important innovation of the Notre Dame composers in the Middle Ages?
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Measured Rhythm/Meter
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Melodies found in Medieval and Renaissance music primarily include large leaps and are written within a wide pitch range. True or False?
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False
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Early Medieval polyphony that consists of Gregorian Chant and one, or more, additional lines is called....?
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Organum
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These composers are most closely associated with the Medieval compositional style known as the Notre Dame School..
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Perotin and Leonin
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These melodies set to Latin texts and sung without instrumental accompaniment were the official music of the Catholic Church for over 1000 years
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Gregorian Chant
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The texture of Renaissance music is primarily....?
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polyphonic
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The two main types of sacred composition in the Renaissance were....?
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The mass and the motet
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In France, Troubadours and Trouveres were wandering ________.
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Knights/poets
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A Renaissance composition for solo voices set to a short love poem. Usually polyphonic.
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Madrigal
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The musical representation of specific poetic images used frequently in Renaissance vocal music
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Word painting
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This type of sacred Renaissance composition is a polyphonic choral composition made up of 5 section: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
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Mass
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Josquin Desprez was from the Netherlands but he spent most of his life and career in....?
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Italy
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A lively instrumental dance piece from the Middle ages
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Estampie
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What are the two ways lines were added to chants in early polyphonic music?
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-Parallel motion -Drone
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This city was the musical capital of Europe in the later Middle ages...
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Paris
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Most medieval dance music had a steady, strong beat and regular rhythm True or false?
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True
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The dynamics in estampie are relatively consistent true or false?
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true
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What can be said about the meter and tempo of estampie?
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triple meter fast tempo
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A type of medieval dance and is one the earliest surviving forms of dance music
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estampie
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Which time period is the Gregorian chant from?
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Medieval
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Was the Gregorian Chant sacred or secular?
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sacred
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What was the texture of Gregorian Chants?
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monophonic
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How does melody move in Gregorian chants?
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Stepwise and in a narrow melodic range
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What polyphonic technique is used in Ave Maria?
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Imitation
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Which type of sacred Renaissance composition is Ave Maria?
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Motet
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Who composed Ave Maria?
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Josquin
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A lute song was secular. True or False?
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True
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The texture of lute songs are...?
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homophonic
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What pears-shaped instrument accompanies lute songs?
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lutes
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Who were the sponsors of Medieval music?
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Catholic church and Aristocrats, noblemen, kings and queens
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Which language were Gregorian chants in?
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latin
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What were the rhythms of Gregorian chants like?
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flexible, free
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Why are Gregorian chants called so?
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from Pope Gregory
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In which service of churches were Gregorian chants sung?
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during the ordinary of mass
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What was the purpose of music during the Medieval ages?
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To get closer to god Thus they were meditative and peaceful
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How many different modes are there?
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seven
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This composer was the French bridge composer of the Medieval and Renaissance period. He wrote both secular and sacred music.
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Guillaume Machaut
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What were the two types of secular music in the middle ages?
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Troubadours & Trouveres Estampie(dance)
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Jugglers who wandered from court to court singing the songs of Troubadours
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Wandering Minstrels
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What was the only type of sacred music of the Medieval age?
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The Gregorian Chant
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What was the basic rhythm of Medieval music and why?
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triple trinity(christianity)
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A polyphonic composition for chorus set to sacred Latin texts other than the ordinary
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Motet
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Who mainly sponsored Renaissance music?
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the Nobility
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Which was more important during Renaissance. Vocal or Instrumental music?
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Both were equally important
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What were the two types of secular music during the Renaissance?
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madrigals lute songs
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Secular songs of the Renaissance were mostly instrumental. True or False?
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False They were vocal
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Dance music during renaissance had a steady beat. True or False?
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true
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What was added for the first time to enrich the Renaissance music?
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the bass register
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What was the dominant texture of the Renaissance music?
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Polyphonic
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What was the characteristic of Renaissance music in terms of its emotional expression?
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Music was used to enhance the meaning of the text
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The two main types of sacred composition in the Renaissance period were the Mass and the...
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motet
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True or False...the texture of Renaissance music is primarily polyphonic (more than one melody at a time)
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true
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True or False... The texture of Medieval music is primarily polyphonic.
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false
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In Germany, poet/knights who performed for the nobility, singing songs of love and war were called Minnesingers. In France they were called...
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Troubadours and Trouveres
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These melodies set to Latin texts and sung without instrumental accompaniment were the official music of the Catholic Church for over 1000 years...
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Gregorian chant
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The basic scales used in compositions of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (there were seven of them) were called...
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church modes
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Between 700 - 900A.D., Monks began to add a second melodic line to the Chant melody. The second line often moved in parallel motion to the chant melody. This early type of 'harmony' was called...
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organum
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Leonin and Perotin were two early composers and music directors of this famous Cathedral in Paris...
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Notre Dame
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Most Medieval music was...
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vocal
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In Medieval vocal music, the melody primarily moved in which manner?
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Step-wise in a narrow range
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What was the greatest musical innovation made by the composers Leonin and Perotin?
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Regular, measured rhythm
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True or False... In the Middle Ages, the Church was the center of musical life.
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True
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This prolific Italian Renaissance composer wrote over 100 masses and over 400 other sacred works...
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Palestrina
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This type of secular (not sacred) Renaissance vocal composition is a piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love
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Madrigal
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This lively medieval dance is one of the earliest surviving forms of instrumental music...
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Estampie
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This sacred Renaissance composition is a polyphonic choral work, set to the text of the ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei)
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mass
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This term describes the Renaissance compositional technique of having the music literally represent what is being sung in the text (i.e. ascending melody when singing of going to heaven)
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word painting
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This Renaissance stringed instrument, a distant cousin of the guitar was very popular. It's body is shaped like a half-pear.
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lute
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In the Renaissance, Gutenberg's invention of the _________ widened circulation of music. As a result, the number of composers and performers increased
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printing press
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True or False...in both the Middle Ages AND the Renaissance, the dominant form of instrumental music was Dance Music.
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true