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Music Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alleluia, O virga meditarix: composer? | Hidegard of Bingen |
| Alleluia, O virga meditarix: genre? | Chant |
| Alleluia, O virga meditarix: language? Time period? | Latin / Middle Ages |
| Gaude Maria virgo: composer? | In the style of Perotin |
| Gaude Maria virgo: genre? | Organum triplum |
| Gaude Maria virgo: language? Time Period? | Latin / Middle Ages |
| Sumer is icumen in: composer? | Anonymous |
| Sumer is icumen in: genre? | Round |
| Sumer is icumen in: language? Time Period? | Old English / Middle Ages |
| Puis qu'en oubli: composer? | Machaut |
| Puis qu'en oubli: genre? | Chanson |
| Puis qu'en oubli: language? Time Period? | French / Middle Ages |
| Ave Maria ... virgo serena: composer? | Josquin |
| Ave Maria ... virgo serena: genre? | Motet |
| Ave Maria ... virgo serena: language? Time period? | Latin / Renaissance |
| Pope Marcellus Mass: "Gloria": composer? | Palestrina |
| Pope Marcellus Mass: "Gloria": genre? | Mass |
| Pope Marcellus Mass: "Gloria": Language? Time Period? | Latin / Renaissance |
| Il bianco de dolce cigno: composer? | Arcadelt |
| Il bianco de dolce cigno: genre? | Madrigal |
| Il bianco de dolce cigno: language? Time Period? | Italian / Renaissance |
| Fair Phyllis: composer? | Farmer |
| Fair Phyllis: genre? | Madrigal |
| Fair Phyllis: language? Time Period? | English / Renaissance |
| Three Dances: composer? | Susato |
| Three Dances: genre? | dance/instrumental |
| Three Dances: time period? | Renaissance |
| Which doctrine appealed to order and balance? Symmetry, Apollo. | Ethos |
| Which doctrine appealed to encouraging of bad behavior? Dionysus | Pathos |
| Order of Eras: | Antiquity, Early Christian, Middle Ages, Renaissance |
| What is heightened speech led by monks during mass? | Chant |
| Text setting where each syllable gets a note | syllabie |
| Text setting where one syllable over a lot of notes | Mellismatic |
| Text setting where there is a combination of 2-4 notes per syllable | Neumesmatic |
| Way of performing chant where lead monk sings first line, then everyone responds? | Responsorial |
| Way of performing chant with 2 groups of monks that go back and forth between lines | Antiphonal |
| Alleluia, O virga mediatrix: texture? | monophony |
| Alleluia, O virga mediatrix: text setting? | mellismatic |
| Alleluia, O virga mediatrix: performed? | Responsorial |
| Meaning of middle ages? | In between real classical Greece and rebirth of interest in Greece |
| Accepting the teachings of the church's beliefs without question | Blind Faith |
| Head abbot of a monastery in France; first person to name the 7 notes A through G | Odo of Cluny |
| Taught monks how to learn Neumes on hands, created the 4 line staff, and solfegge | Guido of Arezzo |
| Educated poets who wrote poems set to music | Troubadors |
| Name of period of the Middle Ages named by Renaissance architects on the basis of the period's architecture | Gothic period (1100-1300) |
| Same melody parallelled higher or lower than the original melody | Parallel organum |
| Second doubled voice in melismatic organum; complicated melody over the tenor voice | Duplum voice |
| Original chant voice with long notes, from the Latin world 'tenere - to hold' | tenor voice |
| Responsible for the Magnus liber organi | Leonin |
| Gaude Maria virgo: texture | Polyphonic |
| Gaude Maria virgo: period? | Gothic period of middle ages |
| Sumer is icumen in: sacred or secular? | Secular |
| Responsible for the Ars Nova (1322) | Philippe de Vitry |
| What the Ars Nova did | improved rhythmic notation, emphasis on secular, isorhythmic motets |
| Music history's first great composer | Machaut |
| Machaut composed this mass; saw as one large musical composition | Messe de Notre Dame |
| Puis qu'en oubli: content? | Unrequited love |
| Instrument classification containing: shawm, sackbut, nakers and tabors | Haut (loud, outdoors) |
| Instrument classification containing: recorder, lute, rebec and vielle | Bas (quiet, indoors) |
| Meaning of the Renaissance: | Rebirth in the interest of ancient Greece and Rome/Age of Discovery |
| Three basic themes of the Renaissance: | Classical humanism, scientific naturalism, renaissance individualism |
| Year that Martin Luther proposed the 95 Thesis | 1517 |
| Reformation results: Germany | the chorale |
| Reformation results: Switzerland/Scotland/Holland | Calvinism - the psalter |
| Reformation results: England | Anglican Church and anthem |
| Identity of Josquin | first great and influential composer |
| Ave maria: Style? | Franco Flemmish |
| Franco Flemmish style: | Smooth rhythms and polyphonic imitation |
| Counter-Reformation performed by the | Catholic Church |
| 18 year meeting to clean up the Catholic Church in northern Italy | Counter-Reformation |
| Gloria, from Pope Marcellus Mass by Palestrina: context historically | saving church music by maintaining polyphony |
| French vocal music; meaning 'song' | chanson |
| In Italy; a poem set to music sung by a capella singers. Meant for amateur singers. | Madrigal |
| Making the notes sound like the words they mean | Word painting |
| Music across the Alps; Italian madrigals translated in England into English. | Musica Transalpina (1580s) |
| Instrumental music was not: | given as much respect as vocal music and not commonly notated |
| Three main avenues of expression for instrumental musicians: | Play dance music, accompany singers, |
| Group of instruments from the same family (e.g. string quartet, recorders) | consort |