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Unit 1

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What is distinctive about the Franconian Motet?   The triplum was quicker thean the motetus  
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The Divine Office is   a series of psalms and chants performed eight times per day  
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The troubadors wrote and sang songs in which language?   Occitan  
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Which does not characterize a thirteenth-century motet?   Latin texts only  
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Who composed organum for four voices?   Peritonus  
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The prescribed texts and rites that collectively constitute the religious services of the church are known as the   liturgy  
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On which did Boethius base his De instituitione musica?   Greek sources  
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Trecento composers used all but which of these genres?   discant clausulae  
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southern Italy   Beneventan  
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in a motet that carries the Gregorian chant, the tenor is knows as the   cantus firmus  
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What secular song form employs a canon?   caccia  
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Who wrote a famous treatise and composed isorhythmic motets?   Phillipe de Vitry  
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Hildegard of Bingen is known for   composing both the words and music for chants and liturgical drama  
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The main sung parts of the Ordinary portion of the Mass are   Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei  
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The Squarcialupi Codex is   one of the main sources of trecento music  
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The Messe de Nostre Dame is notable because   it was the first time that a single composer set the Ordinary of the mass as a cycle  
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By the end of the fourteenth century, the musical style of which region began to dominate in Italy?   France  
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Which feature of Ars Nova composition was most offensive to conservatives?   duple meter  
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Rome   Old Roman  
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Of the following, which does not characterize the music of the Ars Subilitor?   Satirical texts aimed at the clergy  
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Psalms are typically preceded and followed by chants called   antiphons  
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Chants that have sections with many notes per syllable are called   melismatic  
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Roman de Fauvel was   an allegorical story interspersed with Ars Nova music  
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The Doctrine of Ethos is the theory that music   influences a person's morality  
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The correct chronological order for sources of organum is   Musica enchiriadis, Ad organum faciendum, Magnus Liber Organi  
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Polyphonic treatment was applied to   solo portions of the Proper and troped parts of the Ordinary of the Mass and Office  
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Which of the following describes the sources for notated music of ancient Greece?   There are few surviving examples  
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Who composed isorhythmic motets, polyphonic songs, and a Mass Ordinary setting?   Guillaume de Machaut  
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The three genera of tetrachords in the Greek system of music theory are   diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic  
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What is the definition of an authentic mode?   Modes in which the melody ranges from the final to approximately one octave above it  
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Hexachords can begin on which pitches?   C, F, G  
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Which of the following letter schemes best represents the form of the ballade?   aabC  
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Which Church figure expressed concern over music's ability to arouse feelings?   St. Augustine  
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The eight church modes are defined primarily by their   range, final, and reciting tone  
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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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Goliards were   scholars who sang secular songs in Latin  
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Discant is the style of composition used to set the   neumatic sections of solo portions of chant  
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The voice that holds the chant melody is called the   tenor  
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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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Milan   Ambrosian  
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Polyphonic music at the Notre Dame school employed how many rhythmic modes?   6  
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The medieval motet began as an elaboration or troping of   substitute clausulae  
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In the early fourteenth century, what type of music can be found in Italian manuscripts?   laude  
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For the ancient Greeks, harmonia was   the concept of an orderly whole divisible by parts  
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Of the following, which genre favored by Machaut would most likely be monophonic?   virelai  
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Organum in which all the voices sing in measured rhythm is called   discant  
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Heterophony refers to   one person playing a melody with embellishment while others sing or play the original  
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Spain   Mozarabic  
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Psalm tones consist of   intonation, tenor, mediant, and termination  
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The Magnus Liber Organi was   a book of organum begun by Leoninus and updated by Perotinus  
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