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Unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the fifteenth century, the term chanson referred to | a polyphonic setting of a French secular poem |
| Tunes for the Calvinist Church were published in collections called | Psalters |
| Which composer did Martin Luther particularly admire? | Josquin |
| The language used for secular song texts composed in the Burgundian style was | French |
| Chromaticism as a means of expressing sorrow is evident in the madrigals of what composer? | Gioseffo Zarlino |
| The leading madrigal composer in the middle of the sixteenth century was | Cipriano de Rore |
| What is the principal type of Lutheran church music? | chorale |
| A plainsong mass created coherence between parts of the Ordinary by employing | a liturgically appropriate preexisting chant, which corresponded with the text of each part |
| In the generation of Josquin, which type of mass was considered to be conservative? | cantus firmus |
| The most common subject of the sixteenth-century madrigal is | love |
| Dance music of the Renaissance typically used which form? | Repeated sections of four-measure phrases called binary form |
| Which of the following statements is true of women's participation in madrigal performance and composition? | Women both performed and composed madrigals, though not in numbers equal to men |
| What English polyphonic genre contains a number of stanzas all sung to the same music and a refrain with its own musical phrase sung at the beginning and then repeated after each stanza? | carol |
| The Triumphes of Oriana, a collection of 25 madrigals by 23 composers, was published by | Thomas Morley |
| Which of the following statements best reflects Josquin's approach to text setting? | He gives a new melody to each new phrase of text to make it clear |
| Of the following, who was not a composer of Italian madrigals in the late sixteenth century? | Vicentino |
| In which religion did the musical style of the Renaissance begin? | Burgundy |
| At the turn of the sixteenth century, the quest for full harmonies, vocal melodies, and motivic relationships between voices encouraged which of the following compositional techniques? | composing all the parts phrase by phrase |
| Which of the following is the characteristic of Ockeghem's music? | Lowering the range of the bass voice |
| Of the following, which type of mass borrows from all the voices of a polyphonic work? | parody |
| A mensuration canon is a canon in which | the new voice sings with a different rhythmic speed |
| During the sixteenth century, composers in France developed a new type of chanson that was | light, fast, strongly rhythmic song for four voices |
| The galliard was often paired with the | pavane |
| Spanish genre of light vocal music | villancico |
| In what compositional technique used in the top voice is the melody given a rhythm that is ornamented by adding notes around those of the chant? | paraphrase |
| A consort is | a group of instruments from the same family, made in different sizes |
| What is the principal type of Anglican church music? | anthem |
| The Council of Trent | supervised the revision of the official chantbooks |
| A mass in which all movements begin with the same motive is called a | motto mass |
| Medieval theorist widely studied during the Renaissance | Boethius |
| Adrian Willaert held the post of Music Director at | Saint Mark's in Venice |
| Who was the leading English composer during the early Renaissance? | Dunstable |
| In most Josquin's masses, the cantus firmus is borrowed from | secular tunes |
| A plucked string instrument of the Renaissance is the | lute |
| In what way did the Hundred Years' War influence music? | English composers spent time in France |
| Byrd's music for the mass was published in | The Gradualia |
| Added four modes with finals on either A or C | Glarean |
| The composer who quoted his own motet in his Missa O Magnum mysterium is | Victoria |
| What did Martin Luther call his simplified order of service, intended for use by smaller congregations? | The German Mass |
| Du Fay's Nuper rosarum flores was written for the dedication of a cathedral dome in | Florence |
| What types of works are contained in the Odhecaton? | chansons by northern composers |
| The two principal composers whose works are represented in Pierre Attaingnant's early chanson collections are | Clement Janequin and Claude le Jeune |
| Palestrina spent most of his career in | Rome |
| Orchesographie, the best known dance treatise of the Renaissance, was published by | Thoinot Arbeau |
| A mass in which all movements are based on the same pre-existing melody is called a | cantus firmus mass |
| How many voices were standard for the cantus firmus mass? | four |
| Four-voice texture as developed in the fifteenth century consisted of | superius, contratenor altus, tenor, contratenor bassus |
| What is the principal type of Calvinist church music? | metric psalm |
| What musical trait, common in the music of Ockeghem and Busnoys, was borrowed from medieval composers? | formes fixes |
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