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Adrian Willaert held the post of music director at or for ___________.
St. Mark's in Venice
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The main sung parts of the ordinary portions of the mass are ___________.
- Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
- (Kyle's gotta crap soon, after dinner)
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Chants that have sections with many notes per syllable are called _________.
Melismatic
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Which of these subjects was not a part of the quadrivium according to Martianus Capella?
Rhetoric
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The style of chant known as Gregorian oriented as ______.
a synthesis of Roman and Frankish chant styles.
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By the twelfth century, cadences on an octave were typically preceded by ________.
Contrary motion of a sixth.
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Hymns were sung as a part of _________.
Divine office
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Which of the following statements characterizes Jean Calvin's attitude towards music?
He encouraged the singing of Franco-flemish polyphony, finding it to be the ideal vehicle in preparing the listeners for worship.
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Which of the following is true of musical style in the late 15th and early 16th centuries?
All voices were nearly equal and all voices were singable.
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Which of the following techniques became popular among English keyboardists?
Variations
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Changes between red and black ink ________.
indicated changes between duple and triple meter.
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The Concerto delle Donne was _________.
A group of women renowned for their singing at noble courts.
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The use of Greek names for church modes comes from ________.
A misreading from Greek modal theory
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Madrigalism can be defined as ________.
a literal depiction of an individual word or phrase.
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Ancient greek music theory included the concepts of _______.
Intervals, scales, and tetrachords
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Keyboard instrument of the Renaissance is the _______.
clavichord
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The 14th century French system of rhythmic notation was based on ______.
the Italian system of notation.
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Which of the following statements is true of the proper of the mass?
The text and music changed according to the church calendar.
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By the first half of the 15th century, the word "motet" was applied to _____.
Only polyphonic compositions in which all voices had different texts.
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In the 16th century, percussion instruments were ______.
Diverse and refined, but were never written out.
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The performance of most chants begins with ______.
The priest and cantor singing the first few words.
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Who wrote the famous treatise and composed isorhythmic motets?
Phillipe de Vitry
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The polychoral motet was cultivated on a regular basis in ______.
Venice
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The idea that music could be a social accomplishment came from ________.
Ancient Greece
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Ottavio Petrucci is known for _______.
Publishing music using the three-impression method.
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Which statement best describes Orlando de Lasso's career?
He worked for a time in Italy, but spent most of his later career in Germany.
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Which of the following Christian practices does not come from Jewish worship?
(All of the above come from Jewish practices)
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The Scola Cantorum was ________.
a medieval Roman institution charged for training boys and men as church singers.
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In a 13th century motet, the second voice from the bottom is called the ______.
Triplum
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Which of the following was not a popular dance in the 16th century?
Minuet
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Elgar's description of a 14th century worship service describes ________.
Priests singing psalms and the congregation singing responses.
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A mass in which all movements are based on the same pre-existing melody is called _______.
motto mass
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Part books were ______.
sets of books with one part to a book.
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The definition of trope is ______.
An addition of words, music, or both to an established chant.
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The dance movement usually paired with the saltarello is the ________.
passamezzo
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In what way did the Hundred Years War influence music?
English composers spent time in france.
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The composer who quoted his own motet in his Missa O Magnum Misterium is __________.
Victoria
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The correct chronological order for sources of organum is _______.
- Musica enchiladas, Ad organum faciendum, Magnus liber organi
- (Eat enchiladas, then faces, then organs).
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The galliard was often paired with the ______.
Pavane
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Who was the blind composer known for his ballete?
Francesco Landini
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The most outstanding feature of the Petronian motet is ______.
A faster moving triplum voice than in previous motet styles.
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The sign for imperfect time and imperfect prolation survives today as the sign for _______.
4/4 time.
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The language used for secular texts composed in the Burgundian style was _____.
French
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Isaac's lieder can best be described as _________.
Composing for court or elite circles, but in a folk or popular style.
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Bar form can be expressed as ______.
AAB
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The estampie and istampita were ______.
Dance forms
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The Renaissance Period of music comprises roughly which centuries?
15th and 16th
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Who composed isorhythmic motets, polyphonic songs, and a mass ordinary setting?
Guillaume de Machaut
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Late in the 14th century, composers of the papal court of Avignon and surrounding areas cultivated which type of music?
Ars subtilior
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The writer who named two composers of the Notre Dame school was _____.
Anonymous IV
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The first use of line to indicate pitch helped the singer to locate ______.
The semitone.
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The voice that holds the chant melody is called the _____.
Tenor
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The frottola was _______.
A folk-like homophonic secular song in Italian.
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Which of the following statements is true of Catholic music in colonial Latin America?
_____?
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The court chapels were significant for music history because ______.
They hire musicians for both sacred and secular music
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Courtly love, as expressed in song, usually described ______.
A man who loves an unattainable woman
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Who published wholesome polyphonic music for young people to rid them of their love duties and wanton song?
Martin Luther
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Josquin's Missa Pange Linguais an example of which mass type?
Paraphrase mass
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The six rhythmic modes were indicated by ______.
Patterns of ligatures
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When sung, the sequence typically follows ______.
The alleluia
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The earliest notated chantbooks date from ______.
THE 9th century
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The troubadours wrote and sang songs in what language?
Occitan (langue d'Oc)
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The rule of St. Benedict was ______.
the prescribed practices for Catholics in monasteries
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Which composer is known for his/her songs depicting such things as a battle and birds?
??
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Notker Balbulus is known for _____.
composing sequences
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Which of the following letter schemes best represents the form of the ballade?
aabC
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Jongleurs were _______.
Traveling entertainers who juggled as well as sang.
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Secular song in Germany ________.
was influenced by the music of the troubadours but written in German
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The three genera of of tetrachords in the Greek system of music theory are _____.
diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic
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Which of these statements is true? (about nuns)
Nuns were required to sing the same music as males in monasteries.
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Ancient greek musical writings included _____.
(all of the above)
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Ockeghem's Missa prolationem employs which compositional technique?
Canon
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The Missa Cuisvis toni is special because ______.
It can be sung in any mode.
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The earliest known composer of Mesopotamia is ______.
Enheduanna, a high priestess who composed hymns.
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The composer who's poetry influenced Chaucer and other famous poets is _______.
Guillaume de Machaut
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Composers of the late fifteenth and early 16th centuries take what approach to the cantus firmus composition?
The treat the melody freely, adding notes for decoration
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The doctrine of imitation holds that _____.
A person will imitate the ethos of the music that they hear.
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The first description of polyphonic music is contained in _______.
The Winchester Troper
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Social factors influencing Renaissance music included ____.
Europe's economic vitality
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The main textures of renaissance were ______.
Homophonic and imitative counterpoint
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Palastrina's Pope Marceullus Mass is an example of which type of mass?
Free mass
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For much of the Renaissance, musicians working in Italy had been trained in ______.
France, the Netherlands, or Flanders
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Texts for early madrigals sometimes used metaphors to allude to ________.
sexual matters.
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Music in an improvisatory style was sometimes notated for ______.
Lute
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The Doctrine of Ethos is the theory that music _________.
can influence a person's morality.
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The chansonnier was _____.
a book of songs.
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The movement to embrace human knowledge was ______.
Humanism
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Palastrina spent most of his career at institutions in _____.
Rome.
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Da Fay's career was spent _______.
Traveling court to court, including courts in England, France, Italy, and Spain.
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A mass in which each movement is based on a preexisting chant for that text is called a ______.
Plainsong mass
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Which of the following statements is true of women's participation in madrigal performance/composition?
Women both composed and performed madrigals, though not in equal numbers to men.
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Catholic compositions of the 16th century differ from earlier compositions in that ______.
??
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Which composer is known for composing French songs in a style similar to the frottola?
Sermisy
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Which of these statements best describes women's role in Renaissance music-making?
Women were expected to learn music as part of a lady's education. (and make sandwiches and clean and stuff)
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The rhythm of ancient Greek music was intimately tied to _____.
Poetic meter.
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The 6th century writer who compiled a compendium of Greek music theory based on Nichomachus and Ptolemy was _______.
Boethius
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In the middle of the 16th century, the typical Italian madrigal was written for ______.
Five or more voices
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Which statement is true about Babyloian music?
Although Babylonians had a form of notation, musicians most likely performed from memory, improvised, or used notation as a recipe for reconstructing a melody.
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Psalms were typically preceded and followed by chants called ______.
Antiphons
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Which of the following statements is true? (about emotions and music and the renaissance?)
Renaissance musicians used many devices to try to sway listener's emotions.
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The vielle was which type of stringed instrument?
A five stringed instrument played with a bow
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Musica humana was defined as ____.
unheard harmony of the human body.
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Busnoys favored which forms for his chansons?
The formes fixes, especially the rondeau
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The contenance angloise refers to ________.
The English style of polyphony
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Willaert and Zarlino believed that minor intervals such as the minor third or sixth _______.
could represent sweetness or grief.
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Josquin's motets would likely have been performed by _____.
an ensemble of solo singers, one voice to a part.
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In renaissance, music for dancing was composed for _____.
Social dancing for people of aristocratic backgrounds.
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Musica ficta is ______.
the use of pitches outside of the gamut
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The Renaissance instrument that is related to the modern trombone is the ______.
Sackbut
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In chant books the letters EUOUAE indicate _______.
The last vowels in the last doxology.
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Musical instruments of the 14th century were divided into high and low depending on ______.
Loudness or softness.
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The Council of Trent ________.
directed local bishops to implement forms in church music.
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Which of the following is not a feature of the polyphonic conductus?
The tenor voice came from Gregorian chant
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The magnus liber organi was _______.
A book of organum begun by Leoninus and updated by Perotinus.
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The theorist who first described counterpoint that considered thirds and sixths consonances was _______.
Tinctoris
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Guardame las vacas is an example of ______.
a standard air for variations
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A _______ chant is sung by a soloist in alteration with a choir.
responsorial
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The main feature of music mesuree was ______.
the artificial assignments of long and sort values to vowel sounds.
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Vocal ranges of the late 15th and early 16th centuries tended to spans _______.
About a 12th
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Which of these statements is true? (women in Greek music)
Women could perform recitals but could not compete
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The Squarcialupi Codex is ________.
one of the main sources of trecento music.
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The form which contains a burden is the _____.
carol
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Chanson de Roland is an example of a _______.
chanson de gest
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Who was Luther's principal music calibrator?
Johann Walter
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The primary audience for printed music was _______.
amateur musicians throughout Europe and the Americas.
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The first public works in improvisatory style were inspired by instrumentalist's practice of improvisation in associate with which other genre?
tocatta
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The Old Hall Manuscript contains ______.
Sacred polyphony, including works of Dunstable
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The medieval motet began as an elaboration or troping of which genre?
Substitute clausulae
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The main secular vernacular genre of the 16th century Spain was _______.
Velincico
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Organum in which all the voices sing in measured rhythm is called ______.
discant
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Which of the following letter schemes represents the form of rondeau?
ABaAabAB
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The chant tradition centered in the city of Milan is known as ______.
Ambrosian chant.
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Hans Sachs is known for what achievement?
He was the best known Meistersinger.
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The poet who's work inspired composers of 16th century Italy was ______.
Petrarch
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The most outstanding feature of the Petronian motet was ______.
Faster moving triplum voice than in previous motet styles
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In England, most composition in the early 15th century was the ______.
secular polyphony
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Which of the following was not a type of improvisatory composition?
Consort
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Imitation in paired voices is a characteristic of _______.
Josquin
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Which feature of the Ars Nova composition was most offensive to conservatives?
Duple meter
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The Burgundian chanson was usually composed in which forms?
Rondeau or ballade
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The 16th century Italian madrigal developed from the _______.
Frottola
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A mass that quotes more than one voice of a preexisting polyphonic work is called ______.
Cantus-firmus mass.
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Music and art of the Renaissance share which of these characteristics?
An interest in the individual
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The Italian form derived from French songs is:
canzona
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Which of the following is not an innovation by Guido of Arezzo?
Modal theory
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Early church leaders believed that instrumental music ______.
could invoke Pagan practices and therefore should be suppressed.
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Which of the following statements is true of the notation of secular song?
Only pitch was written down
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The Cantigas de Santa Maria were written in which language?
Gallego-Portugese
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Adam de la Halle jeu de Robin et Marion is an example of _____.
musical play
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What is/are the principal form(s) of Lutheran church music?
chorale
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Prehistoric European cultures left behind what instruments?
Instruments made from bones
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The aristocratic composer-poets of Northern France were _____.
trouveres
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Which statement of surviving examples of secular song?
A few thousand texts survive, but only some have music.
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The description of polyphonic music is contained in _____.
Musica enchiladas
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Ockeghem spent most of his career in the service of ______.
The Kings of France
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What did Martin Luther call his simplified order of service intended for use by smaller congregations?
The German Mass
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What is the contrafactum?
A piece in which a new text, usually sacred, is added to preexisting music.
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The Council of Trent outlined all but four ______.
Sequences
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A new system of rhythmic notation based on relationships among the shapes of individual notes and their duration was described in the 13th century by
Franco of Cologne
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Early in the 1st century C.E., Jewish music ________.
was performed by a choir of Levites at the Temple of Jerusalem
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In an isorhythmic work, the repeating rhythmic pattern is called the ____.
talea.
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Which genre could have words in both French and Latin?
Motet
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Golliards were _____.
students who sang secular songs in latin.
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Which of the following statements is true of art music in ancient Rome?
Images, written descriptions, and some instruments are all that remain.
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One composer known for his lute songs is ______.
John Dowland
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The leading madrigal composer in the middle of the 16th century was ______.
Cipriano de Rore
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Which of the following statements best reflects Josquin's approach to text setting?
He gave a new melody to each phrase of text to make it clear.
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The definition of "authentic" in modal theory is _____.
Modes in which the melody ranges from a note below the final to about an octave above.
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The Divine Office is _______.
a series of psalms and chants performed eight times per year.
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The Triumphs of Oriana was _______.
A collection of madrigals to honor Queen Elizabeth.
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Dance music of the Renaissance typically used which form?
Repeated sections of four-measure phrases.
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Gesualdo is known for ______.
killing his wife and her lover when he discovered them together in bed.
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The person who recognized the numerical relationships that underlay musical intervals was _____.
Pythagorus
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