Music Test 2

The Middle Ages refer to the period of European history spanning ____

The Renaissance may be described as an age of:

In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were ___

A virtual monopoly on learning during the middle ages was held by ___

During the middle ages ___ was the center of musical life.

The church frowns on instruments because of their ___

The use of organs in church ___

What we know about instruments from the middle ages and renaissance comes from ___

Most medieval music was ___

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

During the late middle ages, the church believed that music religious services should be ___

The music the medieval monks sang was called ___

Gregorian chant ___

Gregorian chant ___

Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who ___

The two types of services at which monks and nuns sang were ___ and ___.

The earliest Surviving chant manuscripts date from about the ___ century.

The ___ were the basic scales of western music during the Middle Ages.

The ___ like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven different tones.

The form of the chant "alleluia: vidimus stellam" is

___ was the first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived, abbess of the convent at Rupertsburg, and a visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs.

The earliest extant liturgical morality play, "Ordo virtutum" (play of the virtues), was composed by ___.

The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed during the ___ centuries.

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

The French secular songs of the Middle Ages were often concerned with the ___.

The notation of troubadour and trouvere melodies does not indicate ___.

The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages performed ___ in ___, lived on the ___ and played instrumental dances on ___.

One function of ___ music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for dancing.

An "estampie" is a medieval ___.

The medieval estampe is one of the earliest surviving pieces of ___, the manuscript contains only, ___, and does not indicate which ___ should play the melody.

The first steps in a revolution that eventually transformed western music began sometime between 700 and 900 with the addition of a ___ to Gregorian chant.

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

Paris was the ___ and ___ capitol or Europe during the late medieval period.

___ was among the first known composers to write music with more than two voices.

The center of the polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was ___.

In medieval times, most polyphonic music was created by ___.

___ are notable because they are the first important composers known by name, indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music, and were the leaders of the school of Notre Dame.

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

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

The term "ars nova" refers to ___.

Among other causes, ___ music became more important than ___ music in the fourteenth century because the literature of the time stressed earthly sensuality, rival popes claimed authority at the same time, thereby weakening the authority of the church, and the feudal system had gone into decline.

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

The "ars nova" or " new art" differed from older music in that a ___ permitted composers to specify almost any ___ pattern.

An outstanding composer of the ___ was Guillaume de Machaut.

Guillaume de Machaut's compositions consist mainly of ___.

The five parts of the mass ordinary are:

The Renaissance in music occurred between ___.

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

The leading music center in the sixteenth-century Europe was ___.

The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly ___.

Renaissance music sounds fuller than medieval music because ___ considered the harmonic effect of chords rather than superimposing one melody above another, the ___ is used for the first time, and the typical choral piece has four, five, or six voice parts of nearly equal melodic interest.

a "cappella" refers to ___.

Renaissance ___ are usually easy to sing because the ___ often moves along a scale with few large leaps.

The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the ___ and the ___.

The Renaissance ___ is a polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.

Josquin Desprez spent much of his life in ___.

Palestrina's career centered much of his life in ___.

An attempt was made to purify Catholic Church music as a result of the ___.

___ music includes 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works.

The council of Trent attacked the church music of the renaissance because it ___.

Palestrina's "pope Marcellus" mass sounds fuller than Josquin's "Ave Maria" because ___.

The Renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in ___.

During the ___ every ___ was expected to read musical notation, play a musical instrument, and be skilled in dance.

The Renaissance madrigal is a piece for ___ set to a short poem, usually about love.

The difference between English and Italian madrigals is that ___ have a lighter and more humorous tone.

Thomas Weelkes's "As Vesta Was Decending" is notable for its ___.

Besides the madrigal, the ___ was another type of secular music that enjoyed popularity during the Renaissance.

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

Lute songs are mostly ___ in texture.

___ was a leading English composer of lute songs.

In most lute songs, the lute accompaniment is ___ to the voice.

During the Renaissance secular vocal music was written for groups of solo voice with instrumental accompaniment, secular music contained more rapid changes of mood than sacred music and a wealth of dance music published during the ___ century has survived.

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

The "passamezzo" is a stately dance in duple meter similar to the ___.

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